Wow! I finally got a puzzle that I know the
answer to. The windshield washer
fluid reservoir is connected to the spare tire by a flexible line. This was done to provide pressure from
the spare tire to cause washer fluid to be pushed up to wash the
windshield. There was no separate pump
to do this so the tire’s air pressure was used instead. The amazing “beetle”
had many advanced design concepts, but also was short on some creature comfort
items. Ha. Don
This week's puzzler:
Jerry had worked
lots of summers and he finally accumulated enough money to buy himself a
brand-new 1968 Volkswagen Beetle.
It was a dark and stormy September night when Jerry and his college roommate
pulled the brand-new Beetle out of the dealership parking lot in Chicago, on
their way to college at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison.
Since the Beetle was brand-new and hadn't been broken in, they decided to drive
the shiny bug on the back roads of Wisconsin, so as not to exceed the break-in
speed.
The roads they chose were muddy and rutted, and it was really quite an
adventure. They ran out of gas and they had a blowout -- as you might expect.
Searching for the spare, they found it under the hood where the engine should
have been. Without reading the instruction manual they carefully replaced
the bad tire with the spare and then put the blown tire where the spare had
been.
They continued on their muddy route looking for a service station where they
could get the flat tire repaired. Low and behold, a few miles down the
road, they come across "Helmut's German Car Repair." An oasis
of European automotive expertise in rural Wisconsin.
No sooner had they pulled into the station, carefully navigating through the
mud-splattered windshield, than out popped Helmut who immediately said to the
driver, "Youre here to get ze tire fixed, eh?"
How did Helmut know they had a flat tire?
Last week's puzzler:
In his youth a man decides to take a trip to visit the great
pyramids of Egypt. He is deeply moved by the trip, and years later he
decides to take his son who has never been away from home to see the pyramids.
Heres the catch. The man made his trip to the pyramids in 1995, but his
son made his trip to see them in 1969.
How is this possible?
Last week's puzzler answer:
What you have to think about is how long the pyramids have been
around. While the father may have taken his trip in 1995, that was 1995 BC. And
26 years later in 1969 he and his son went.
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