<div dir="ltr">I wasn't into revving the gas/slipping the clutch/shifting to 2nd after only going 20 feet so I sold the '67 4 speed square and bought a '69 FI/AT square! <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 5:25 PM Keith Park <<a href="mailto:topnotch@nycap.rr.com">topnotch@nycap.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Why dont more of us in the US drive standard tranny's?<br>
Dave makes good points. Ill stick with the Sqauare, but keep it out of <br>
washington DC traffic nowadays.<br>
<br>
Keith<br>
<br>
<br>
Topnotch Restorations<br>
<a href="mailto:topnotch@nycap.rr.com" target="_blank">topnotch@nycap.rr.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.topnotchresto.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.topnotchresto.com</a><br>
71 Squareback "Hothe"<br>
65 Notchback "El Baja Rojo"<br>
93 RX7 "Redstur"<br>
95 Chrysler Cirrus Lxi "Cirfogsalot"<br>
"hanging out at the tail end of the bell<br>
curve, and loving every minute of it!" <br>
<br>
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On Behalf Of Dave Hall<br>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 7:10 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:type3@vwtype3.org" target="_blank">type3@vwtype3.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [T3] Questions on Other Cars....<br>
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You can't ignore the safety improvements that have taken place, with crumple<br>
zones to absorb impacts, though I agree with the comments on added<br>
complication of radio operation.<br>
<br>
The sloping fronts are a feature of fuel-saving aerodynamic design, as well<br>
as less dangerous to pedestrians if they are hit.<br>
Air-con, fitted almost universally these days, reduces the need for<br>
vent-wing windows.<br>
<br>
Non-glass lenses speak for themselves, and ride-heights are another<br>
consequence of reduction of drag<br>
.<br>
<br>
I don't know why the colours have to be drab - but that's gradually<br>
changing, too. The Jetta we hired for the last invasion was a beautiful<br>
bright metallic Pacific blue and returned 40 mp(us)g on the highway on gas,<br>
about what our old '99 diesel Jetta wagon still gives on a motorway. The<br>
modern TSi engines are good performers, and married to the DSG autobox in<br>
our Polo and Golf SV are serving us well as we move into old age! Why don't<br>
more people have autotrans in the UK? <br>
<br>
So, I'm liking our new cars, but not giving up on the old ones yet. My<br>
(project) '59 Beetle turned 60 yesterday. After owning it most of its life,<br>
I hope I can last long enough to finish it and drive it again! <br>
<br>
So drive your 40-year old cars carefully and defensively, so you never need<br>
to rely on their less-modern safety features.<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
UK VW Type 3&4 Club<br>
<br>
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Behalf Of J. Jonik<br>
Sent: 15 February 2019 04:19<br>
To: <a href="mailto:type3@vwtype3.org" target="_blank">type3@vwtype3.org</a><br>
Subject: [T3] Questions on Other Cars....<br>
<br>
What's with the New Cars? (Question from an over-40 year Squareback owner.)<br>
- No easy radio turn dials so you don't have to take eyes off the road.- No<br>
wing vents, so you don't blow hats off those in back seat to get some<br>
air....or vent cig smoke.<br>
- Many newer cars slope down in front, as if ready to dig into an<br>
embankment.- No "sacrifice" bumpers, easier and cheaper to replace/repair<br>
than the whole front or rear end.- No front bench seats. (Not that T-3s have<br>
them.)<br>
- No glass headlight lenses...which don't cloud up like the new<br>
designer-shaped plastic versions.- Many are so low to the ground that one<br>
couldn't get over a curb, steep driveway, or bump in a lawn.- No<br>
hubcaps...replaced by "spoked" stylish, , silvery, expensive wheel rims.- No<br>
colors to speak of. Most cars are colorless gray, white, black, "silver",<br>
or dull reds, greens, etc.- No proper size spare tires to just change to if<br>
needed.- And....most cars are oversize, taking up parking space, hard to<br>
find parking, and impossible to push out of snowdrifts, etc.<br>
These are not "volks" (people-friendy, people-fixable) 'wagens". <br>
<br>
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