| Author |
Message |
ente_kaefer
Samba Member
Joined: August 22, 2013
Posts: 242
Location: St Louis, MO
|
 Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 11:08 am Post subject: Hello, Daddy . . . |
 |
|
I had the opportunity this past weekend to compare my 1973 Thing to a 1945 Kubelwagen, one does not appreciate how much the Type 82 influenced the design of the Type 181 until you can pull the two cars together, side by side, and compare.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
hobie16
Samba Member
Joined: July 26, 2013
Posts: 244
Location: Maui
|
| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Hello, Daddy . . . |
|
|
| ente_kaefer wrote: |
I had the opportunity this past weekend to compare my 1973 Thing to a 1945 Kubelwagen, one does not appreciate how much the Type 82 influenced the design of the Type 181 until you can pull the two cars together, side by side, and compare.
|
It could have influenced the shovel-nosed Porsche too. 
_________________
Don't be fooled by appearances. In Hawaii, some of the most powerful people look like bums and stuntmen.
--- Matt King
If anything’s going to happen, it’s going to happen out there.
---Captain Ron |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Joe 20
Samba Member
Joined: August 27, 2005
Posts: 655
Location: Ohio
|
| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: Hello, Daddy . . . |
|
|
| Yes but I heard somewhere that no parts will interchange. Thought it was interesting... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mondshine
Samba Member
Joined: October 27, 2006
Posts: 2769
Location: The World's Motor Capital
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 4:25 am Post subject: Re: Hello, Daddy . . . |
|
|
| I did see the exact same glove box light (actually several of them) inside the turret of a Tiger tank at the Imperial War Museum many years ago. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Zylinderkopf
Samba Member
Joined: September 09, 2012
Posts: 679
Location: SE Oklahoma
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 5:00 am Post subject: Re: Hello, Daddy . . . |
|
|
The hood is raised on the Thing to give us more trunk space, but it makes it even more ugly than the Kübelwagen.
_________________
1963 Beetle
1966 Beetle 1300
1970 Karmann Ghia Coupe
1971 Super Beetle
1974 Thing
"A lot of people never use their initiative because no one told them to." |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ente_kaefer
Samba Member
Joined: August 22, 2013
Posts: 242
Location: St Louis, MO
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:35 am Post subject: Re: Hello, Daddy . . . |
|
|
It was interesting to compare the engine compartments of the two vehicles, here is the 1945 Kubelwagen. I like how the jack is stored to the left, and the starting handle and air pump are attached to the rear deck lid, and the wood toolbox strapped to the right. Note voltage regulator on top of generator.
The exhaust is the same type as used on the Thing from 1968 to 1973.
The hole for the starting handle is located about where it would be on a Thing.
The fan shroud is the same without ducts for the heater boxes.
Note also the tube going to the air filter from the vents above the rear deck lid.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ente_kaefer
Samba Member
Joined: August 22, 2013
Posts: 242
Location: St Louis, MO
|
| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:36 am Post subject: Re: Hello, Daddy . . . |
|
|
| mondshine wrote: |
| I did see the exact same glove box light (actually several of them) inside the turret of a Tiger tank at the Imperial War Museum many years ago. |
Interesting ! The only part I believe the two cars have in common are the lug bolts. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
