Doh! Liquid cooled engine at the wrong end!
As a driver of the
classic Beet1e, whenever I pass another Type 1 (air cooled beet1e) or Type 2 (air cooled kombi bus), I will wave to the other driver and he/she will wave back. I even got waved by a Karmann Ghia driver and passenger one time. The common denominator is
air cooled. Sometimes, a guy or lady will wave to me from one of these new Beet1es and, being a terrible snob, I do not wave back. I might just nod or smile (if I fancy the girl driving - there's a girlie round here who drives a blue one, and hasn't yet learned the VW protocol).
But admittedly, the new beetles look nice, airy and plenty of head room. And I bet they wont be prone to rust like the old ones.
Mine is
still in the shop
Getting ready to part with £3800 (about $5000 or 5000 Euros) when it's finished.
I have an important question for you Beetle guys: What grade of fuel do you run on? In the UK, we've gone pretty much to Unleaded since about 10 years ago. But you can buy LRP
lead replacement petrol. That's what I use, because although the ignition timing might be suited to unleaded, I don't know if the valve seats of the engine are hard enough to make it with unleaded. By the way, we're supposedly self sufficient in oil here in the UK, but the Government taxes road fuel to such a degree that it's the most expensive in the world - it works out to about $1.10 per litre. Thank you, Tony Blair.
