Date:         Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:32:59 -0500 (CDT)
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From:         Daniel Gary Soiney <danno@csd.uwm.edu>
Subject:      Re: fuel sender repair

On Thu, 6 Oct 1994, J. Walker wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Oct 94 21:43:45 CDT David Carment said:
> >oval. (He also drove something called the DKW (Das Kleine Wunder) 2 stroke
> >--  german car.) Later in life (after he had sold that one to  a student
> 
> ha! one of my old bosses used to have TWO of those. the only two in the
> whole state of alabama. they were DKW Juniors. and they are/were truly
> two-strokes. when you lifted the hood to fill the gas tank, you had a small
> oil tank to fill as well. front wheel drive, so they were good in snow and
> ice. and i believe they were 3-cylinders. not much to look at but they just
> just kept going and going and going ...
> 
> wasn't DKW one of the four companies that merged to form Audi (which is
> what the four linked rings represent)?  if so, DKW was like a 2nd cousin
> to the beetle. :)
> 
> boy. this list is starting to sound like one of Peter Eagan's monthly
> column in Road & Track. :)
> 
> joel
> 



Not only did dkw become part of audi, those cars formed the basis for the 
East German Trabant!

I think the four companies were DKW, audi Wanderer, and Horch

danno