Date:         Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:58:33 -0400
Reply-To:     greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA
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From:         Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject:      Re: NVC:  Monster Lupo
Comments: To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
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Ha; that brings us back around to talking about VW buses!!!

EveryBus 2008 featured the appearance of a very strange splitwindow VW  
tow-truck with a sideways-H engine configuration.

It had a 36hp engine mounted upside down above the original motor;  
linked by a belt drive. The engineering that went into making the  
engines work this way was quite remarkable; it was a tremendous feat  
of farmyard engineering.

Here are a couple of pics of the unit in question I was able to find  
on the interwebs.

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2377628020092621899jEiVxd
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2676447790092621899lcottJ
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2167321210092621899YXqYqQ

Everybus pictures and a warm rainy morning... Makes me want to up and  
leave the office and just go camping!!!

</Greg>


Quoting Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>:

> Another interesting twin-engined thing was built for Emerson   
> Fittipaldi to race in Brazil back in the late '70s.  It was a VW   
> beetle with two Beetle motors linked end-to-end, with the transaxle   
> turned back-to-front and the engines in a mid-engine configuration.   
>  Essentially a flat-8 mid-engined Beetle, but more accurately a flat  
>  4+4.
>  Stephen
>