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  1. 01-14-2023, 09:47 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Trapper View Post
    They were great fun in the winter time during a snowstorm and no windshield defroster.
    Despite the lack of heat on the glass they had pretty good traction on the snow.
    "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." W. C. Fields
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    Quote Originally Posted by hawgrider View Post
    Despite the lack of heat on the glass they had pretty good traction on the snow.
    Before we got ahold of a rusty old CJ2, they were our favorite woodroad/offroad cars as kids (pre-drivers licenses)
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    Dad brought a VW Type 1 back from Germany in the mid 1950's courtesy of the US Army!

    I think he sold it by the time I was born.

    Coming home from The Red Barn bar somewhere near Moss Point, MS in the late 70's, me and D.L.S flipped his brother's VW and I broke my collarbone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shootbrownelk View Post
    What did those little VW bugs get for fuel mileage? Did anyone here ever own one and check the MPG?
    My first car was a 1965 VW bug. 40 horsepower motor.
    Got gas mileage in the 30’s but I had replaced the stock wheels and tires with chrome reverse rims and G 60 tires.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Trapper View Post
    They were great fun in the winter time during a snowstorm and no windshield defroster.
    Defroster sucked and no heat in general !
    Those plastic heater boxes were supposed to take engine heat a route it into the vents inside as long as the car was moving and there was air flow over the fan shroud. Ha ha. Worked in theory only.
    I used to keep a blanket in the bug in winter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Box of frogs View Post
    My first car was a 1965 VW bug. 40 horsepower motor.
    Got gas mileage in the 30’s but I had replaced the stock wheels and tires with chrome reverse rims and G 60 tires.



    Defroster sucked and no heat in general !
    Those plastic heater boxes were supposed to take engine heat a route it into the vents inside as long as the car was moving and there was air flow over the fan shroud. Ha ha. Worked in theory only.
    I used to keep a blanket in the bug in winter.
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    The heater channels ran along/were part of, the rocker panels and if the rockers started to rot out that's where the heat went out. I fixed those on an ex-girlfriends bug, ran 2" copper plumbing tubing inside the rockers.
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