Mathew

You only use watercooled vanagons fro the conversion!

Cheers

Wally
84 Westy

>From: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
>Reply-To: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Amphibious vehicle
>Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 12:14:06 -0500
>
>Crazy!
>
>Did the article go into any depth (pun) about how they kept the alternator
>& cooling tin from soaking/sucking water? I can see it would be easy to
>protect the carburetor intake, and the exhaust with a snorkels like the old
>military jeeps had, but I can't figure how they would do the cooling fan
>stuff.
>
>G. Matthew Bulley
>Bulley-Hewlett
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Todd Francis [SMTP:tbf@PACIFIER.COM]
>Sent:   Friday, December 03, 1999 12:08 PM
>To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject:        Re: Amphibious vehicle
>
>Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 7:01 AM
> >There is nothing new or innovative about an amphibious vehicle. Back in
> >the 60's there was a car called the Amphicar based on a British Triumph
> >
>
>
>I have a Hot VW mag form 1975 that shows a bunch of guys that cut the top
>off of bugs and welded cv joints to the lower engine pulley and hooked up a
>prop to that. They had races with these things. The water line on these
>cars
>was at about the door handle.   Todd

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