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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:56 pm    Post subject: The first time seeing a VW engine out of a car.... Reply with quote

Was around 1980. I think it was my mom's friends son, and he was taking the engine out of one Bug and putting it in another that my mom had at the time.
He had the back end off the ground and was getting ready to install the engine when I walked in and was looking at it. I think it was probably the first time I'd seen one and definately the first time out of a car.
The really wierd part is that I can remember the feeling I experienced when seeing it, and the way it looked to me at the time, but I cannot recreate it when looking at an engine now, 30 years later. It was.... bulbous.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll catch that sensation every once in a long while. Its unexplainable. It was about 1980 and i was about 12yrs old and ive been hooked ever since
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My first time was my 2nd day as mechanic assistant. The guy would tell me what to do, like crawl under and disconnect the two lower nuts with a 17mm box wrench, then to plug fuel line, etc. I was amazed it went so quickly.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:50 am    Post subject: The first time seeing a VW engine out of a car.... Reply with quote

First time for me was helping my brother-in-law swap the transmission out of his 60 Beetle in 1966!
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

at a VW junkyard
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I pulled it out of my blue beetle. I didn't get to excited, it's an engine.....
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1995 - watching some friends work on theirs. Since than I have had motors and transmissions in and out more times than I can count.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My shaping moment happened in 1967, when I was four. My Uncle Greg had the engine out of his red Bug ('65). He also had a brown '62 Corvair that he had the engine out of. I crawled into the engine compartment of both, staring around in amazement. The colors, smells, and textures had me mesmerized. They have been my two favorite types of cars ever since!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was 10. The car a 1964 sunroof Beetle purchased for $100. It was to be my first car after years of mechanical experience and repairs. It needed a clutch. My Pop a "Learn by doing" promoter, purchased a manual for me and told me to "read". I decided it was time, and removed the engine on my own in the back yard. I remember looking at this thing thinking it sure looks like my dirt bike engine with all the cooling fins. I decided to remove the flywheel to replace the front crank seal, as Pop said it was probably a good idea. The flywheel slipped out of my hand and dropped straight to my left big toe and broke the toe. An experience to never be forgotten. Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pittsburgh PA, 1987, parking lot of Grateful Dead concert. A guy had an engine out w/tons of parts spread around him.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

this past year with friends from the OCOD, and my son to help, so it was a great experience.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In 1969 in Sacramento. My high school buddy helped me put a new clutch in my girlfriend's Beetle. We were all done in 1/2 day! Shocked
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

June of this year.... I really wish I could run it without the tin installed (invisble tin any one ???), very cool little power plant Cool
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They look perfect stripped down on the nose of a kit plane!
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was when I was a kid, around 1970. I was already a VW freak, and I remember a neighbor had his engine completely disassembled and scattered across his garage. I remember wondering how he could ever get it all back together again.

We also had another neighbor who ran a VW in mini stocks. I remember thinking a VW race car was the coolest thing ever, and the roar of the engine was incredible! That thing must have had 12:1 compression!
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 12:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was 16 and trying to find my skateboard. I looked everywhere excpet outside where my dad was working on our 69 westfalia. When I started to walk closer to our westy I had noticed my dad had pulled the engine out and what would you know......there was my skateboard. That was the 1st time I had ever seen a vw engine out and I solved the mystery of the missing skateboard.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:46 am    Post subject: bic saves the day Reply with quote

Quite a few years ago; around O'Dark thirty at night and somewhere north of lostville a friend and I where bored and driving around when the engine quits.

wasnt long before we figured out that the points where broken. the plastic rider had broken off and was grounding out.

not having a spare we where stuck. and cell phones where a few years off yet.

My buddy had the brillant thought of using a lighter to melt a pen and shape it onto the points to form a new rider, after a few attempts it worked fantastically and saw us home.

one of many amusing adventures.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was when I was about 10 and my dad was rebuilding the motor out of our '65. I didn't even rememeber this until several years later when I saw a photograph of me with the engine.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

After having this Ghostbusters toy when I was 4,

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I thought VW engines were actually monsters...

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But I helped pull my first real VW engine at age 8 with my dad, out of our '73 Super.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Randy, who knew about VW's, helped me put a new clutch in my girlfriend's bug in the parking lot in 1/2 day. We were both heroes that day! Laughing
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