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

[Ed Kellock <EKELLOCK@ECS-INC.com>]

Speaking of Thing's...

Last weekend there was a "ThingFest" up in Asheville, NC.  Saw it on the
news.  It was neat to see other gearheads getting some play.  I doubt our
4-ringed 4-wheelers are overtly unique enough to get similar attention.
Then again that anonymity works to our advantage when crossing vast
distances in short periods of time...  ;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tom Nas [SMTP:tnas@euronet.nl]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 23, 1998 1:57 PM
> To:	Brandon Hull
> Cc:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	Re: VW/Audi setting up fund for slave laborers (news)
> 
> "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
> 
>  _______________________________________________________________________
>  Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
>  tnas@euronet.nl
>  1987 Audi 90q 2.3E, Tizianrot metallic, 165,000km
> 
>        The number of people watching you is directly proportional
>                     to the stupidity of your action.
>