On Sunday, September 7, 2014 7:12:29 AM UTC-10, Mayo wrote:
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> >> Had a neighbor with one - total shop queen, but he adored it.
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> >> It was a cute little wedge I have to say.
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> > You take the roof section off and stash it behind the seat. I thought it
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> > was fine for going about town. As I recall, there was a cute fan that
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> > blew on the carb to keep the gas from boiling out of the float bowl. Oh
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> > those Italians!
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> And it took us how much longer to come up with the Fiero?
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> Speaking of gas - the VW Karman Ghia's used a lit gas heater - no joke.

My friend had a Karman Ghia - he had the standard VW passive heater system. That didn't work in the tropics very well. I shudder to think of having something like that where it really gets cold. The Corvair had a gasoline powered heater too. It had a separate ignition system with a spark plug and coil to fire it up. That's must have been a little noisy. It probably worked great though.