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Originally Posted by 1976gmc20
I was just thinking that our old VW Bug was a cool old car because the heater didn't work very well  |
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Originally Posted by Boog
Stories of VWs and weak heat remind me of my first car. It was a Manx style dune buggy. We built it in our home garage. A chrome dual cannon exhaust was more important than a heater to this 16 year old so it had no heater at all. And I drove it year round for years. I got caught out in a sleet storm a time or two and drove with my head peeking out around the windshield. Played in the snow and had a blast. I kept that car about 7 years. I'd do it all over again if I could. |
I thought of you when I read about the VW being a "cool car". Those dune buggies didn't even have a provision to use the "VW heat attempt"* did they?
I drove a '66 VW Bus across the great Basin, Granby,CO to SF,CA mid-winter and still remember my toes nearing frostbite. And I was wearing my best mountaineering clothes! Just a piece of sheet metal between my feet and the headwind.
* Heater boxes
. You could touch them with your bare hand and that was way back there before the air oozed it's way forward. They worked pretty good in the summertime! I always wondered how they got heat out of the Corvair. My did had a '64 and I don't remember that being so cold