"End of Another Nazi Dream"

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:14 pm

Interesting 1945 Popular Science article for those of you interested in Volkswagens.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/07/ ... #more-2647

dingo · Post by **dingo** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:20 pm

33 miles per gallon...not too shabby !

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:28 pm

History is a funny beast...who woulda thunk it would take over America! Especially in 1945.
Lookit this one from 1933! Sure looks like a split bus...

RSorak 71Westy · Post by **RSorak 71Westy** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:25 pm

As the comment after after the article says that's a THING

Birdibus · Post by **Birdibus** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:36 pm

So, why do they call the VW a flivver if that's Henry Ford's word?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flivver may refer to:
The word Flivver is most commonly meant to indicate a Ford Model T. In a more general sense, a small, cheap car is meant.
In 1926 Henry Ford introduced a flying car called a "Sky Flivver", but the project was canceled after a fatal test crash.
In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Henry Ford has been deified, and the flivver becomes a stand-in for Heaven: "Ford's in his flivver, and all's well with the world."
The word has also been applied to small (750-ton) destroyers and small airplanes.
In 1928, Nikola Tesla received patents for an apparatus for aerial transportation, which he called the "Flivver".
The word is also part of the title of a novel by Upton Sinclair, The Flivver King published in 1937.
Willis H. O'Brien directed a short film titled The Birth of a Flivver in 1917.

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"End of Another Nazi Dream"

"End of Another Nazi Dream"