Date:         Wed, 3 Aug 94 12:57:38 EDT
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From:         mark.janello@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject:      flying vws

Matthew (drahzal@c1south.convex.com) wrote:
 
I have been talking about planning on buying a plane in a few years,
 of which my wife wants nothing to do with. Lately, I have been
 pointing out how similar looking light-plane engines are to VW
 air-cooled. 
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A long time ago there was a fake ad in some late 60s early 70s 
underground publication (could have been Whole Earth Catalog
or something) which claimed to offer, for $25 a "Volkswagen
Conversion Kit."  This was a set of little wings that attached
to your bug and made it into a little plane.  Then (with beatiful
60s-style drawings (ala the Idiot book) it showed some hippie
guy thumbing his nose at a big traffic jam as he took off over
everyone's head.  Does anyone else remember this?
 
I guess as the child of a hippie mom I got VW obsession as a matter
of course.  I remember riding around in the back of VWs and
watching the road fly by through the rust holes in the floor.
 
Mark Janello
mjanello@umich.edu
University of Michigan School of Music