So I saw this in Peru...
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So I saw this in Peru...
And saw this thing close to where I was staying.
It also had tomb-stone tail lights, rear quarter glasses in the corners, and a narrow back door.
Talk about franken-bus!
It also had tomb-stone tail lights, rear quarter glasses in the corners, and a narrow back door.
Talk about franken-bus!
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The front looks Bay and the rear looks split screen.. WTF??
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They are out there. I saw one when we were in Cusco this past May, and when we were in southern Mexico a few years back. I suspect it's Brazillian in origin, but that's all I know.
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I saw one like that at the Woodburn VW show & swap earlier this year.
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It's a fairly crazy looking machine.
By Tris's input, apparently it's basically a splitty. Can't imagine how much it's worth in the states.
By Tris's input, apparently it's basically a splitty. Can't imagine how much it's worth in the states.
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VW went savagely cheap in the southern hemisphere. The frankenbus there was an actual new product from Volkswagen with swing axles and king pin front suspension and a late model nose grafted on. They doled out IRS in 1990 or so. The ad copy was atrocious, sort of like General Motors selling a 2015 Peruvian Cadillac STS with "new HYDRAULIC drum brakes working on ALL four wheels!"Xelmon wrote:It's a fairly crazy looking machine.
By Tris's input, apparently it's basically a splitty. Can't imagine how much it's worth in the states.
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It would seem that cooling would be affected by the design change of the air intakes.
At some point I think these became water-cooled but this one appears to be air-cooled. Type I engine?
At some point I think these became water-cooled but this one appears to be air-cooled. Type I engine?
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Type 1 engine, yes. Watercooled didn't happen until later, first in the Mexican market from 1988-2001ish, then the Brazilian market in 2005 .. but it was the full-blown Bay that got the radiator, not the Bay-nosed Splitty that Xelmon saw in Peru...
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