Car Porn

Back when I lived in Florida, I had an Italian neighbor who moved down from Jersey, who claimed that his had one of the stolen engines in it. He got it from a “friend.”

 

Lol

 

If that's what it takes to miss **it then I probably missed a lot of stuff... but I remember a lot more than I should anyways. And I was drinking a lot of Margaritas without the Margarita part.

 

I just like tequila

 

Ferrari driver is staring at the girl leaned on the wall, just saying! , what to expect from "car porn" tread!

 

Little Red Express, fastest 1/4 mile production vehicle of 1978 with a high performance 360 motor.

I have a story about: Around that time small town Colorado there were two of these sitting on the Dodge dealership lot for about 4-5 years before they finally sold. Probably cheap by then.

I moved away from that town in 1987. I moved back in 2012 to a much bigger town. I started seeing one of these trucks around town and finally after months of seeing it got to talk to the owner at a gas station. He was the third owner and it was a local truck. Definitely one of the ones I saw on that lot in 1979. I then saw another one, I could tell it was a different one by the shape it was in. I never got to talk to that owner. Seeing both trucks around for a couple years after moving back and then the sightings of both stopped around 2015. Most likely sold and shipped to another area. So crazy seeing the same vehicles 30 some years later had stayed local for so long.

Read up on it here: https://moparwiki.com/index.php?title=1978-1979_Dodge_Lil_Red_Express

 

Awesome that they managed to stay local as long as they did.

 

That beetle truck is cool, did they actually make those?

 

1938 VOLKSWAGEN KdF Lieferwagen
The very first pre-Beetle was presented in May 1938 and was called KdF-Wagen, which stands for Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy Car). This cheap car was developed by Ferdinand Porsche commissioned by the Nazi regime, although it's actually still debatable if the basic ideas of this revolutionary rear engined air-cooled car were originally his.

In the same year a very limited number of Panel Vans and Pick-ups based on the Type 60 KdF-Wagen were made.

Not any car has survived.



1131 cc air-cooled boxer engine.

Production VW Type 60 Van: 1938.



Original photographer, place and date unknown.

Source: Stiftung Automuseum Volkswagen.

Image taken from the book 'Volkswagens of the World', by Simon Glen, Veloce Publishing Plc, Dorchester, 1999.

Sander Toonen, 2018

 

I've seen this and a couple of other pics, before. Interesting idea, and it would be fun to recreate it, but the high location of the louvers makes me scratch my head.

 

Those vents are to pull heat away from the motor.

 

I understand that (worked on plenty of air cooled Bugs), but I would think a lower location would be more advantageous, for cooling, as well as increasing interior space, similar to the lower location on Type 2s.

 

A precursor to the van possibly is what comes to mind. Seems like a good next step later.