rev up your engines, today I'm going to
talk about, the car that made Volkswagen
famous and very popular, and I know
people are going to say Scotty you hate
Volkswagens well yes
I hate modern plastic over computerized
money pit Volkswagens, but not these old
solid metal ones, this is a 67 when men
were men and cars were made out of solid
metal, and if you want an
air-conditioning, Hey you opened up the
front draft window and you're cranked
the side down, and automatic transmissions
we don't want no stinkin automatic
transmissions, we got a four-speed manual
on the floor and this one's had a short
shifter put in look at this, just
a tiny little bit to get into all the
gears and machines sounded like machines
listen to this
and horns sounded like horns and
engines Hey
they were mechanical, they weren't full of a
bunch of electronic stuff, fuel-injection
no this baby's got two, two barrel racing
carburetors on it one on one side that
I'm working on presently and one on the
other side, it's a tinker's dream you get
to play with the carburetors, adjust them
you can modify them, change the Jets, make
it have a higher top end or more low end
power, you can have fun with these old
things already, no radiator to worry about
leaking fluid this baby's an air-cooled
boxer engine and yeah it's an old design
and sure they're not race cars, but this
baby has the 1600 engine that put out 54
horsepower and in its day that was a
reasonable amount of power, back in the
60s when I was a kid I had a 650 BSA
lightning which was the fastest
production bike at the time and it put
out 53 horsepower, but granted it weighed
a lot less than this entire car, now with
the engine and the transmission on the
back, guess what all that weight is right
over the back drive wheels, so in the
rain and the snow grip great, you got all
that weight in the back I mean I
remember when I was a kid and people
were driving 60s Mustangs around up
north, you had to put sandbags in the
trunk to get enough weight on those back
wheels so they grip, this thing's got
most of the weight on them already, and being
a boxer engine it's low and flat so
the center of gravity is low and they
handled quite well and maintenance cheap
and easy, this baby only holds two point
seven quarts of oil, you just drain it on
the bottom, putting in the oil doesn't cost
much we change them every 2,000- 3,000
miles oil is cheap engines are expensive
and look at this,
it's high enough up in the air you have
to jack it up in the air to change the
oil, you just leave it on the ground and
here we go, out comes the old oil and
there's the end of it dripping out, talk
about easy cheap maintenance you can't
be that, then you just take off the
dipstick assembly
stick in a funnel and put 2.4 quarts
back in and away
you go
and with a squareback design we got a
reasonable amount of trunk space and
people space inside, it was a far cry
from the simple beetle that if you sat in
the back there was no room at all
building a solid reliable car, hey that's
what Volkswagen did with these things
they've gone a long way from that now
they're into speed and luxury and all that
nonsense and all the horrors that come
as the aging cost a fortune to fix this
thing it's 52 years old and it still
works great, and with that rear engine
transmission design, it still handles
really well for a car that's 52 years
old, they're still fun to drive, so now
you know how Volkswagen made a name for
itself, when men were men and cars were
made of metal, so if you never want to
miss another one of my new car repair
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