On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 7:47:16 AM UTC-10, Casa de los peregrinos wrote:
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> Many of the VW heaters were also gas powered - freaky!
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvWN4CVbAuM
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> Hard to imagine NHTSA ever letting that pass muster today.

Corvairs had them too. That's the problem with air-cooled engines. There's no heat source that's readily available to draw from. That's a problem for electric cars too. I suppose they just use an electric heater.