I have a copy of an article from a 1963 Sports Illustrated entitled "The Beetle Does Float". The beetle was lowered into the water at Homosassa Springs FL. it floated for 29 minutes and 12 seconds.

Ric

> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:56:59 -0500
> To: rgolen@HOTMAIL.COM
> From: dbeierl@attglobal.net
> Subject: Re: If Ted Kennedy Had Been Driving a VW........
> CC: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> At 04:31 PM 1/30/2009, Richard Golen wrote:
> >It definitely wasn't a poster, it was an "ad" in the National 
> >Lampoon. Here's a link to a copy of it:
> 
> I remember as a young'un seeing a little squib with picture in 
> Popular Mechanics or maybe Popular Science mag.  VW dealer in Sydney 
> OZ who greased the door seals, fitted a prop and used to drive around 
> Sydney harbor for twenty minutes at a time.
> 
> -- 
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation" 
> 

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