GMBulley (GMBulley@aol.com) said on the date of 4/19/98 3:45 PM >In a message dated 98-04-19 11:25:42 EDT, s_j_wacker@JUNO.COM writes: > ><< I may be full of hot gasses, but didn't WW II end in 1945 and the VW > plant lay in ruins. I would think it would have been difficult to get > into production by 1946. Just a thought. >> > >Wish I could remember the name of the book, but I read it some 10 years back >about the birth and evolution of VW (KdF Wagen). Some listee will set us >straight though.
From Amazon.com: Small Wonder; The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen Walter Henry Nelson / Paperback / Published 1998 Our Price: $13.56 ~ You Save: $3.39 (20%) (Not Yet Published -- On Order) If I remember (can't find my copy) it was published in the mid seventies. Seems that a reprint is due soon.
_________________________________________________________ Bob O'Shaughnessy, Columbus, OH 85GL 82 Diesel L with carbed Rabbit engine (belongs to friend) 74 Bus (Dad's) 72 Wife, 94 Rabbit, 95 Cat, 96 cat 98 Kid (Robert F. O'Shaughnessy Jr. 4/15/98) Still looking for the Bentley manual on this one! |
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