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Pipe Dreams: How the air-cooled VW Beetle Heated its Cabin
In the wonderful, quirky world of the Volkswagen Beetle, even the heater has a story to tell. Without a liquid-cooled engine ...
As you know, the ghost of Marv Alpert's breakfast once gave me the solemn task of making weird air-cooled VWs known to a wide audience, and that's what I'm doing. This time, the car is VW's first (non ...
Four years could be one term of office for the US president. Or the time required to complete some professional degrees. For a human, that's not terribly long. But for a car, it could be an automotive ...
We're going to avoid the low-hanging fruit here and just say up front that no, old Beetles did not pipe hot exhaust gas straight into their cabins. They relied on exhaust gases to heat up (relatively) ...
This car looks solid by the standards of junkyard Type 1 Beetles, with very little rust and a serviceable interior. Perhaps everybody who wants an air-cooled Beetle already has one (or a half-dozen) ...
The car in question is known as Project 1021, and is one of a handful of prototypes that were built by VW South Africa in the late 1970s. I've covered the history of this project before, which was ...
There’s no doubt about it, people love to see a Volkswagen (VW) Beetle on the road, especially if it’s decorated. “A Bug that’s all decked out gets lots of attention and smiles,” said Aj Batista, ...
When Masaba bought his car in March, most parts were not functional apart from the air system, through which the car cools as it runs. Daniel Masaba’s car is a 1973 model blue Volkswagen Beetle that ...
Several aftermarket companies specialize in making tracks for late-model trucks and SUVs, but as far as we know there’s no off-the-shelf kit that fits an air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle. That doesn’t ...
Here we are in the Automotive Lake of Fire again, and we feel compelled to follow up a couple of marginal-classic Fiat projects with a pair of indisputable classic Volkswagens. After Ferdinand Porsche ...
London, UK-based virtual artist Al Yasid, better known as "al.yasid" on social media, decided to have a digital go at making ...
Volkswagen’s boxy, air-cooled rear-engine Combi van is finally to go out of production in Mexico, Associated Press (AP) reported, adding that production in Brazil is also likely to end soon. The van ...
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