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Showing posts with label bus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bus. Show all posts
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Friday, November 10, 2017
This Bus Can Get Up & Go
Watch This 993 Turbo-Powered Volkswagen Bus Hang With Supercars
With the twin-turbo flat-six from a 911 Turbo, this Type 2 is capable of bending physics.
(Road&Track.com)
With the twin-turbo flat-six from a 911 Turbo, this Type 2 is capable of bending physics.
(Road&Track.com)
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
A Good Lookin' Pair
This Martini soaked Volkswagen and Porsche duo is up for auction
The pair make for the perfect vintage race team.
One of the few things that could make a vintage racecar even better would be a matching transporter to go along with it. This weekend at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium, Bonhams will be auctioning off just such a pair, a 1976 Porsche 934/5 Kremer Group 4 Competition Coupe and a 1977 Volkswagen T2 Transporter. Though the couple are obviously soulmates, Bonhams is auctioning them off separately. Bonhams expects the pair to fetch about $500,000 all together.
(AutoBlog.com)
The pair make for the perfect vintage race team.
One of the few things that could make a vintage racecar even better would be a matching transporter to go along with it. This weekend at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium, Bonhams will be auctioning off just such a pair, a 1976 Porsche 934/5 Kremer Group 4 Competition Coupe and a 1977 Volkswagen T2 Transporter. Though the couple are obviously soulmates, Bonhams is auctioning them off separately. Bonhams expects the pair to fetch about $500,000 all together.
(AutoBlog.com)
Monday, May 8, 2017
Long Live The Bus
Peace, Love, & the VW Bus
The story of a boxy legend.
"The hippie movement fell in love with the bus for a few reasons," says McKeel Hagerty, classic car market expert and the CEO of Hagerty Insurance. "It was cheap to maintain, easy to work on, and big enough to live in."
The VW microbus was great at many things, but keeping up with traffic wasn't one of them. The first models could carry nine passengers but had engines that delivered a mere 25 horsepower. Now, the bus was deeply geared to make the most of those horses, but even when power improved to 40, it was still really slow. On the twisty, narrow German backroads, that was perhaps not problem. But not here on the open roads of the USA. A typical six-cylinder engine in a 1950s American sedan had more than four times the power of the VW.
The upside is that the classic Volkswagen four-cylinder engines have plenty of aftermarket support. There are catalogs of speed parts available.
(PopularMechanics.com)
The story of a boxy legend.
"The hippie movement fell in love with the bus for a few reasons," says McKeel Hagerty, classic car market expert and the CEO of Hagerty Insurance. "It was cheap to maintain, easy to work on, and big enough to live in."
The VW microbus was great at many things, but keeping up with traffic wasn't one of them. The first models could carry nine passengers but had engines that delivered a mere 25 horsepower. Now, the bus was deeply geared to make the most of those horses, but even when power improved to 40, it was still really slow. On the twisty, narrow German backroads, that was perhaps not problem. But not here on the open roads of the USA. A typical six-cylinder engine in a 1950s American sedan had more than four times the power of the VW.
The upside is that the classic Volkswagen four-cylinder engines have plenty of aftermarket support. There are catalogs of speed parts available.
(PopularMechanics.com)
Thursday, December 10, 2015
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