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Subject:Re: That wonderful ignature VW "chrip"!
From:Allan Streib
Date:Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:02:39 -0400

I think my WBX makes a fairly distinctive "VW" sound.  More muted than
the old Beetles for sure, but it still has that classic sound.

Allan
--
1991 Vanagon GL

John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> writes:

> I remember that VW chirp. My Mom had a '63 beetle that did that. Later I
> had a ragtop sunroof model - can't remember the year, but it had the
> chirp and a '69 hard Sunroof model with the chirp. Much later my kids
> had one of their own - a 72 model as I recall - that they shared and it
> chirped.
>
> Funny how some machinery will have a characteristic noise, rumble or shake.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver