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in reply to: KCW randomness #29583

Made a trip back to Wolfburg before I head home on Friday and toured a classic car museum they had there. Needless to say I was shocked. Everything in there was so cool, these were a couple of my favorites.

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in reply to: Glenn's Weekend Blue 1963 Ragtop #29581

Was invited to come check out Volkwagen’s EV platform while I’m here in Germany. They went through all the technicals on their current platforms and I learned some information about their upcoming ID family as well before I got to take one of their cars out on the autobahn and drive it to its top speed! Their offices seemed super cool and they even had a bunch of Nerf guns lying around. 

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in reply to: KCW randomness #29055

I’m taking a course in advanced fluid dynamics over winter break out here with DLR… sadly I’ll be missing BBB but this was definitely a bucket list item.

One of the craziest facts they told us on the tour was that an entire body can be built in 3 hours 😳

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in reply to: KCW randomness #29047

Reppin KCW at the dog castle 🐺

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in reply to: Subaru bullshit! #27711

Hahaha whatever it takes to keep them on the road for the next 50 years

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in reply to: Audrey’s Vanagon #27710

Yeah Audrey! #Vanlife #travel #roadtrip #camping #VWs

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in reply to: JJ’s 58 Single Cab! #27706

This was my inspiration earlier in the year. Cole’s post on those campers reminded me of this.

If you want your daily history lesson it’s pretty cool

https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/Debut-of-Mercedes-Benz-LE-306-electric-van-45-years-ago-Electric-future-in-1972.xhtml?oid=15724843

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in reply to: Willbur's 65 SO42 #27283

Great photos! John looks so happy sitting on that rock

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in reply to: Glenn's Weekend Blue 1963 Ragtop #27275

Maybe we could do a solar panel on the roof rack to charge up the 12V

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in reply to: Glenn's Weekend Blue 1963 Ragtop #27274

Thanks for your responses! That battery box is supposed to be sitting behind the rear seats but I like the roof rack idea 😉

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in reply to: Glenn's Weekend Blue 1963 Ragtop #27246

I tried to make it look simple but there’s really a lot more that goes into it than that!

If you guys have a moment please respond to my survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XYB8BND

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in reply to: Glenn's Weekend Blue 1963 Ragtop #27245

Our project is going full steam ahead and we are super stoked on the progress we’ve made thus far but we still have a long way to go.

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in reply to: JJ’s 58 Single Cab! #27172

Yeah the VW guys said that that vehicle that will be launched in the US in 2020 and there won’t be a way to get those parts prior to 2020. Maybe after they start hitting the road and people start crashing them we could do a ‘body upgrade’ on one

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in reply to: JJ’s 58 Single Cab! #27123

Haha I wish! but I doubt they’d go for that… especially since it’s technology that they haven’t even released yet. The motor that they’ve been talking about is from the E-Golf and the subsystems for that doesn’t look as adaptable to a classic body. 

I’m thinking about using this Double A arm rear suspension from Imohr that would allow us to have more freedom with the transmission placement and looks similar to what VW is using for their new chassis

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in reply to: JJ’s 58 Single Cab! #27108

That’s exactly what we have been developing. We still would need the independent rear suspension to locate that rear axle. Would you recommend using a later vw chassis or something more expensive like a mendola suspension or similar. I’m looking at buying a 69 pan for my bug that we can turn into a rolling chassis.

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