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- By Herschel D. -
JULY'S ANSWERS

AUGUST'S - NEW QUESTIONS

1.   Q: I have a reprint of the 1948 VW owners’ manual. The artwork used in it to illustrate parts of the car is largely based upon the original 1939 manual, mentioned above. It has both German and English instruction in it. The left-hand page is the English version and the right-hand page is an exact duplicate with the same illustrations, except that it has German wording. So, if the right hand page (page 7) has the word “KONSTRUKTIONSMERKMALE” on it, what is the English translation on the left-hand page?

A: That long German word is translated into English as “features!” The reprint, by the way, was published by Floyd Clymer in the mid-'50’s.

2.   Q: The engine of the pre-’56 VW is commonly referred as a 25 horse, but that is the European “D.I.N.” rating, and the American “S.A. E.” rating, for it is 30 horses. Where is the horsepower measured in the two rating systems?

A: DIN is measured at the cooling fan, and SAE. is measured at the transaxle.

3.  Q: This is an easy one. What is the translation of “Kubelwagen?"

A: It means “bucket car,” it started off being applied to any German military vehicle made that way but then the VW became the dominant one and thus  THE bucket car.”

4.   Q: When did the Beetle Engine lid latch go from having a lock as standard equipment to the lock being only an option?

     A: In 1965.

5.   Q: In what model year was the Type 3 first imported into the U.S.?

A: 1966

6.   Q: The last year of the Karmann Ghia was 1974. What other VW replaced it on the assembly line and why did they end that model then?

A: The VW Scirraco replaced it and the reason seems to be at least in part because Ford Motor Co. had bought the Ghia studios and thus the rights to the name “Ghia.”

 

    1.   If the German page of that 1948 manual has: “Was man nicht tun soll,” (P.14) on it, what does the English page have on it for that?

    2.   What do “DIN and SAE” stand for?

    3.   This should be easy: what is the main featured difference between the type 4 engine and all the previous VW engines?

    4.   When did the European Beetle get blinker turn signals?

    5.  What VW model is a Type “34?”

    6.  When did the European VW Rabbit get the name “golf?”?

    Answers next month, along with new questions.