Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/17
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At 3:39 PM -0400 5/17/01, Michael Gardner wrote:
>Chris Quinn wrote:
>
>> Ten years of driving a 73 VW Thing seems to have cured the
>> cabriolet jitters, although I still love the Thing, and it makes me smile
>> every time I put the top down....
>
>You are lucky that the Thing is still with you. When the Things came
>out in the early seventies I was a gung ho young firefighter. We would
>get called almost once a month to extinguish a blazing Thing. A
>widespread carburetor malfunction, IIRC. What was really spectacular
>was when the magnesium block got going.
>
>Mike Gardner
Magnesium VeeDub four banger? The one in my 67 Beetle certainly was iron.
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