[ARC5] OT Costs - and everything else and how did VW's end up here?

[Gary Pewitt]

My 1957 VW bus had 4 engines, stock, a Porsche, a 110 hp Corvair, and 
lastly a 180 hp turbocharged Corvair.  It never burned rubber because 
the aux gear boxes on the rear swing arms reversed the torque and raised 
the rear end when accelerating.  With custom explosive formed rear 
wheels mounting tires off of a twin Beechcraft and with the custom made 
chains on it would push through over two feet of snow.  It once towed a 
55 ft house trailer, and then a jeep on a trailer.  It had the IRS from 
a much later bus and the Alpine gears which
kept the speed down a bit but it would climb most anything.  With the 
gas burning heater it was fine for camping.  Don't believe it?  Just ask 
George Hoenig the master gunsmith in Boise, Idaho who builds those 
$20,000.00 rotory operated shotguns.  He built it.
I don't know how many times the odometer had gone around but it was 
still a fine running hard working rig when  (like a fool) I let it go.  
I still have the tires and chains but they won't fit on my dune buggy.  
IMHO the Volkswagen was the best engineered and most practical car ever 
built.  Just to get on topic though I never had any ARC gear in it I did 
have a PRC-6 and a Zenith T.O. I used in it. :-)
73  Gary   N9ZSV


On 2/22/2010 10:53 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> Jay,
>
> I assume that's a typo and you really meant "Bug burn rubber".  But I have.
>   I had a friend and class-mate at LA Tech before I went to Vietnam who
> owned a Microbus with a Corvair Spyder engine.  It would run off and leave a
> Bug.  It ate clutches and throwout bearings.  And it would haul a BC-610
> transmitter (at least three times that I know of).
>
> In a message dated 2/22/2010 8:31:49 PM Central Standard Time,
> jcoward5452 at aol.com writes:
>    
>> Ever see a bus burn rubber? Kind of funny actually.
>>      
> Robert Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
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