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From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009

posted April 13, 2009 05:01 PM            

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And then....

American ingenuity, engineering know how and sense of humor caught up with the staid German "Beetle"..."Bug" and took a 36 horse power engine to more than 600hp and 1/4 mile drag strip times of 0 to 164mph in about 8.5 seconds.

Volkswagen - Small And Mighty
Eric Calabrese replaced the 36hp, 1,192cc engine of his '57 Bug with a 2,276cc (138ci) VW flat-four developing 620 hp. During a non-PRA championship event in Fontana, California, last March, this Pro Mod animal ran a best of 8.55 at 164 mph.

http://www.hotrod.com/thehistoryof/hrdp_0708_volkswagen/photo_08.html

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posted April 13, 2009 07:23 PM              

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i like what these characters have done ..

un-socialised it for sure ..

could very well be interesting machine to drive .. having that lump of an engine centre-vehicle ..
( ~ http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hdrp_0603_1962_vw_bus/photo_08.html ~ )

owner of this one .. just has to be a plumber .. ;-))
~ http://www.hotrod.com/thehistoryof/hrdp_0708_volkswagen/photo_07.html ~

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From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
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posted April 14, 2009 10:48 AM            

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Happy Dragon

You think the rumble coming off the headers and the whine of that supercharger might give away the fact this VW van makes fast trips to the market...and back?.

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posted June 21, 2009 02:06 PM              

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rolls royce 'merlin' powered car ..
~ http://www.spainvia.com/Merlincar.htm ~

" This model has the supercharger removed and an American 4-barrel Holley carburettor fitted
The car used a General Motors TH400 automatic transmission. "
( pics too large to post .. small versions are on the page ..
( "open image in new window" .. opens up a large version
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goodbye Pontiac .. :-((
~ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/business/8021029.stm ~
old trans-ams 'n gto's to go up in value ?

classic americana :-) .. 1933 Plymouth 5-Window Coupe
~ http://www.californiaclassix.com/archive/33_Plymouth.html ~

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posted June 23, 2009 11:34 PM            

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"Fortune favors the bold." Erasmus

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posted July 05, 2009 01:20 PM            

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Yeah Happy Dragon, Goodbye to Pontiac I've had 2 GTO's, a '65' and a '67' Ram Air.

This is a picture of one of my daughters when she was about 19 with the '67' Firebird we bought her...when she was 16 and a junior in high school.

She still has the Firebird. I wish I still had those GTO's.

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posted July 06, 2009 10:40 AM              

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** She still has the Firebird. ** ..

'n v.nice pic

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posted July 25, 2009 03:48 PM            

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Sweeeeeet!

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posted January 25, 2010 09:15 PM            

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"I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -C.S. Lewis

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posted December 11, 2010 10:35 AM            

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*bump*

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"Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on."--George Bernard Shaw

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