OT reply--
I am neither a VW nor Porsche expert, but one of them Porsches is always
derided by the true Porsche faithful as, "that's just the one with the VW
engine."
I will submit in Derek's defense that it is Travelleresque and
particularly TNE-esque to think of shoehorning/jury-rigging different
systems into each other, so the example is instructive.
Also note in the subject line I have changed "talkative" to the correct
doctrinal term: "Chatty."
> Side note here.
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> There's a guy who lives not far from me who has a 1958 or so VW bug that
> has
> this odd bump on the truck it's about 4" by 2". Now as we all know the
> truck on a bug is where the engine is and so after talking to him for a
> bit
> I broached the subject of what he'd done to the bug. Turns out he was
> originally from Germany and he'd rebuilt it over there to drive on the
> Autobahns. He'd managed to shoehorn a Porsche 911? Engine into the back
> end of this thing with 4 motorcycle carbs, 1 for each cylinder. It'd do
> about 120 mph on a straight stretch and handled like a top.
>
>
>
> From: []
> On Behalf Of
>
> 2. No matter "when," people are always going to be needing to shoehorn
> extra junk into a design that doesn't quite hold it, and you're going to
> "see" that effort somehow,
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>
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I am neither a VW nor Porsche expert, but one of them Porsches is always
derided by the true Porsche faithful as, "that's just the one with the VW
engine."
I will submit in Derek's defense that it is Travelleresque and
particularly TNE-esque to think of shoehorning/jury-rigging different
systems into each other, so the example is instructive.
Also note in the subject line I have changed "talkative" to the correct
doctrinal term: "Chatty."
> Side note here.
>
>
>
> There's a guy who lives not far from me who has a 1958 or so VW bug that
> has
> this odd bump on the truck it's about 4" by 2". Now as we all know the
> truck on a bug is where the engine is and so after talking to him for a
> bit
> I broached the subject of what he'd done to the bug. Turns out he was
> originally from Germany and he'd rebuilt it over there to drive on the
> Autobahns. He'd managed to shoehorn a Porsche 911? Engine into the back
> end of this thing with 4 motorcycle carbs, 1 for each cylinder. It'd do
> about 120 mph on a straight stretch and handled like a top.
>
>
>
> From: []
> On Behalf Of
>
> 2. No matter "when," people are always going to be needing to shoehorn
> extra junk into a design that doesn't quite hold it, and you're going to
> "see" that effort somehow,
>
>
>
>