The bug's engine was kind of hidden by the cooling shrouds. Of course, you
could drop the engine out of a VW in 15 minutes, maybe a small exaggeration,
if you really wanted to look at it. Most of the things that you needed to
service were viewable on a bug though it was sometimes easier to do it from
underneath.
Looked at a '58 Cadillac two door hard top yesterday. 124" wheelbase for a
two door!!! Have to get a license from the Coast Guard to captain the land
yacht. Looking under the hood at the 340ci (think that was the
displacement) engine, appeared to be enough room to camp out next to the
engine if repairs needed to be continued overnight. Must admit, economy of
space wasn't the slightest concern in this era American cars.
While I was at the garage, the mechanic was bitching about some newish
Japanese front wheel drive car. Had to remove the air conditioning
compressor to R&R the alternator. A real ozone layer friendly design as it
was a freon AC system. I know, I know, garages are 'sposed to have freon
recovery equipment, but how many shade tree mechanics do or how many garages
actually take the time to do the job right.
Aloha
Peter O
>From: "William J. Rice" <jarvis64@juno.com>
>Reply-To: lro@works.team.net
>To: lro@Works.Team.Net
>Subject: Re: LRO: Land Rover Price in 1959?
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:27:29 -0600
>
>
>On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:47:18 -1000 "Peter Ogilvie"
><konacoffee2@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> Love the metal dash on an old Bug. What a joy
> > it used
> > to be to lift the hood and actually see an engine.
>
>I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you stopped referring
>to bugs after sentence one.
>
>bill
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