Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Semaphore" VWs are right up there with compur Leicas these days! You should have kept it. Mike D - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 12:43 AM Subject: VW Bugs and cameras... was: RE: [Leica] LUG: failed warning > > At 6:36 PM -0400 5/17/01, Austin Franklin wrote: > > > > Magnesium VeeDub four banger? The one in my 67 Beetle > > certainly was iron. > > > > > >The cylinders were, but not the heads or the block. > > > > OK. I wasn't aware of that. > > > > I guess in the usual sense the VW didn't have a block, but I didn't > > know that the heads or the crankcase were magnesium. What the LUG > > isn't good for! > > It had separate iron cylinders, which made rebuilds and even upping the > horsepower...very very easy. A marvel of a design...low center of gravity, > crossflow heads, easy to repair, and capable of amazing horsepower...just > didn't do well heating the vehicle, and the most vulnerable part was the > exhaust system...they always "putt"ed. > > My very first car was a black VW bug that I bought for $50. The signal > lights were little flippers just behind the doors...that flipped up when you > signaled. I don't believe it had a gas gauge, I remember a little lever > that you flipped when you ran out of gas, that gave you two more gallons or > something like that... > > I didn't have a Leica back then. I had a YashicaMat 124G I believe, and a > Beseler Topcon Super DM...awesome camera... I was young and had not > discovered the virtues of rangefinders at that point in my life. > >