Yeah, a Corvette V8 and a VW flat 4 pretty much have their fuel consumption and acceleration figures inversed mutually crosswise. 0-100 km/h in a VW is about a Vette's l/100 km and vice versa ]=) But you have to give it to the Vettes that their heaters had more settings than off and too hot. Cheers Ecke
2011/7/3 Bob Sullivan <[email protected]>: > Morris, > That's pretty much the way I remember it as well. > The VW's, whether dressed as a Beetle or Carmen Ghia, were very slow. > I drove home from college in one in '65, a thousand miles. > Either the gas pedal was floored or you were on the brakes. > My son has a '75 Corvette now and even the stock small V8 beats 21 > seconds 0-60mph. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Morris Galloway > <[email protected]> wrote: >> De-Lurking again regarding that well-known hot-rod, the Volkswagen flat-four >> engined 1.1 liter (later increased incrementally by a tenth of a liter from >> time to time.) >> >> It was/is rumored the little chassis housed a power-house of an engine. A >> Tire-Shredder in acceleration. (PDML 2 July, 4:47 pm. "A stock'74 Ghia would >> do 0-60 faster than a Corvette of the same era.") Sure wasn't that way >> where I lived in the 1950's, and 60's and '70's. The VW Ghia or Beetle >> could barely pull it's shadow away from the curb. (O.K. Kerb for some.) The >> 'VW Werkes' published 21.30 seconds zero to 100 kmp, or 62mph for the Ghia >> in 74, and top speed of the Ghia, 138 km/h or about 84. Hmm. Compared to the >> oft cited slow-basic-stock 195 hp 1974 'Vette was around 9 or 10 seconds. >> With a stock-basic 350 CI engine (Or 5.7 liters.) Most people optioned up to >> the 250 hp in 1974. My father and I owned Three brand-spanking New Corvettes >> between 1963 and the early 80's. Granted the U.S.A. began to limit nasty >> auto emissions around 1968, but the limits affected everybody, even VW and >> Karmann. Every auto suffered a performance decrease. If someone owned a 7 >> to 8 second Stock '74 Ghia they need to call the Guinness world record >> people. >> >> At the age of 17, with a Brand New Corvette Sting Ray 1963, I'm here to >> state with the 4.11 rear end, 11.5 to one compression ratio and advertised >> 365 hp, All Stock, you could see 146 indicated. And 0-60 in the sixes. And >> yes, the tires wore out pretty quickly when inflated to 40 psi. And yes, the >> high school / college girls fell all over you. Ahem. >> >> Oh, Red. Convertible. And No. Never got beaten by a Karmann Ghia bodied >> Volkswagen, stock or otherwise. Remember 'There is no substitute for cubic >> inches' which may have been first attributed to Big Daddy Don Garlits or >> maybe Mickey Thompson. The 1974 Corvette, 350 CI, or 5.7 liters and up to >> 454; the VW started in 1938 with 1.1 and ended with 1.6 liters when >> production stopped. >> >> Now, shutting up and getting ready for Choir Practice. And Re-Lurking. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
