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fairweather
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This could be in the Failures thread or the homemade brushguard thread or the what wheels fit thread or the mirrors are on backwards thread or the rock slider thread or "how many windows does that have" thread so i just started a new one.
Anyway this one is real in service in Chile.
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bandjstewart
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That's awesome!!
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?Waldo?
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| Is it air-cooled? |
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Wellington
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| That was a lot of work to relocate the front turn signals |
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fairweather
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| Andrew A. Libby wrote: |
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My WAG is that they welded an air cooled front to a water cooled back. In actual use I would have to say water cooled since slow moving vehicles need water cooling. |
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r39o
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I especially like the smoothed in front wheel skirts.
Normally you only see rear wheel skirts.
I did not know VW sold Vanagons in Chile.
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boof1306
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| My Guess is it is only the t3 body. Mating a t3 engine to that drive train would be a nightmare (not to mention under powered). Greg |
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campism
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svenakela
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Google "Snow Trac" and you'll find heaps info and images on a Swedish snow cat from 50-70's that was VW aircooled. It's ugly-cool but crazy effective.
An old friend up north has an even older neighbour who rebuilt a doka into a snow cat. The entire VW is there with transmission and shocks and everything. They use it to transport stuff up in the mountains. I have a photo of it somewhere but can't find it. It's very well built and actually really cool! |
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Wildthings
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| Looks like it uses a Thiokol/LMC track set up. Many originally came with 200-300 CID Ford engines with the smaller engines being pretty lame and the larger ones not being exactly a powerhouse. It wouldn't be surprising to find a nice 350 CID Chevy sticking through the floor of the cab. I think the half round piece up front is a deflector to keep the snow away from the radiator. |
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thummmper
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| cold and snowy is what the aircooled is originally designed for--just a heater issue after that, and the petrol heaters were stellar. |
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Racerrojo
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| cold and snowy is what the aircooled is originally designed for--just a heater issue after that, and the petrol heaters were stellar. |
I thought they where design for the war in north Africa's desert, since they don't need water, but cold weather makes more sense.
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Wildthings
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| TTBOMK the original VW aircooled engine was the redesign of an early aircraft engine. One of the reasons VW's became popular is that they did have "dirty air" heat. Maybe not much but better than none which was common for other cars of their day. |
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