Re: VW/Audi setting up fund for slave laborers (news)

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

"Brandon Hull" <brandon@cardinalventures.com> wrote:

(snip)

>government.  By  1946, they were making 1000 Beetles a month.  Interesting
>barely Audi-related content:  Of the 1000 or so Beetles made during the war,
>a significant proportion were four-wheel-drive, built on the chassis of the
>military vehicle which was the main output of the VW plant, later marketed
>commercially as "The Thing."

Sorry to be nit-picky, but 'The Thing', also known as the VW 181, was never
made in 4WD guise. It was built on a standard RWD Beetle floorpan. The 4WD
military vehicle was the Kuebelwagen, which rather looked like the 181.

I saw an old guy driving a _real_ nazi Kuebelwagen, last time I visited the
UK. Takes a lot of guts to wanna be seen in one...

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
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