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> Professor Doctor Heinz Nordhoff and the right honorable, the prime minister
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post Jul 9 2025, 02:43 AM
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today we were alerted to a discovery by a worthy nerd in the VW club who had made available this truly beautiful piece of correspondence dating from an era that was not only technologically and industrially supremely confident but also so P O L I T E.

i just love the post war prime ministers one word response - see hand written notes on letter.

i barely have a memory of the pm of that era (he lasted well into the 60s and was an enduring figure running the nation). but to me a ghostly figure on the tv in the corner of the lounge room where i sometimes spent my 60s childhood watching dr. who or woody woodpecker. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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you got to love the stationary of aus VW.
the roos look like they live on a diet of cigarettes and bllack coffee given their body mass index.

anyway. this prompted a discussion over the lunch table at the workshop here today (having spent the morning fixing starter motor wires on the 914 having finally got some hoist time - the hoist has been heavily used by other hangers on with italian junk, now they are all called tony by me. Fix It Again Tony.

,,,,,,,,,,and my old mate who has set up this workshop looks at the letter and goes ---
i know that name.
turns out he taught a certain character called gray in his architecture class at the tech college here around about 1968 and mentioned to the student he was trying to set up his 62 beetle with twin carbies to make it GO but was having trouble locating a good set up.
the student volunteered his old man worked for VW but no further detail.
next week he came to class with two boxes containing solex carbs and intake manifolds.
there was never any invoice attached.
needless to say young gray passed his class apparently with flying colors.

and now we know who his old man really was. the guy at the top of vw australia. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

the set up survives in the beat up kombi (bus to you guys or really its a panel van version) that lingers in a corner of the workshop.

its a mystery carb set up that is factory (except for the lash up linkages which are vintage aus backyard creations (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ) and fits on an upright type 1 engine. nothing like the type three dual carb set up. but its factory. or top shelf factory.

we reckon it was left over stuff that was sent out by wolfsburg for the redex round australia rally VW beetles. which were supposed to be stock but were always rumoured to be NOT.

note the fuel pump. all those owners of pre 65 beetles and ghias can cry in their cups of tea.

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another day doing stoopid things at the north antarctica research base.

and the 914 cranks its starter like it just rolled out the gate at osnabruk. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)
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post Jul 9 2025, 07:55 AM
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Reminds me when I put a set of type 3 Solexes on a friends Bug many years ago. Jury rigged the crossbar, a bit tight in the compartment but it ran well.
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