Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was fairly common to put Porsche engines in VWs in the 60s. They go right in with no alterations. A friend of mine bought a very nice Porsche with with a blown engine...and put a VW engine in it. >"B. D. Colen" wrote: >> >> J.J.C. on a popsicle stick@! It wasn't equating an M3 with a Hugo - and >> why would anyone waste time and energy 'howling' about someone's opinion >> anyway ;-) - It was equating putting a Yugo engine - a total piece of >> crap - in a classic VW, a wonderful, reliable, solid little car, with >> putting a new M6 finder mechanism - a comparative piece of crap - in an >> M3, a wonderful, solid, reliable camera whose best feature was its >> viewfinder. Okay? ;-) >> >> B. D. >> >I read in a Playboy in the early 60's that Paul Newman put some high >tech Porche >or Maserati engine in his VW Bug. >Then he'd surpise people at intersections! > > >Mark Rabiner >Portland, Oregon USA >http://www.markrabiner.com >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html