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| lizby Guru  Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3378 |
I should have included this: [code] \|/ ____ \|/ @~/ ,. \~@ /_( \__/ )_\ \__U_/ [/code] At least grog understood that it was a joke (turning on another joke). PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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| Boppa Guru Joined: 08/11/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 814 |
LOL- I was actually agreeing with him and expanding on his comment you realize?  |
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| Boppa Guru Joined: 08/11/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 814 |
Yeah but they have the excuse they actually are female (and believe you me, noone in their right mind would try it!!!) A quick way to get to hospital- if they were lucky  LOL) A bunch of big burly blokes patting each other on the 'fanny' is quite a humourous concept for an ozzie lol It basically is saying they are a bunch of girls (but then we think that of US style football anyway- they possibly could be females- you couldnt tell under all that padding and armour they wear LOL)  versus   |
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CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2170 |
INCOMING!!! |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Oh dear GOD, don't get me started on that! I love Bearing. I watch all his vids. I completely disagree with the whole trans playing in woman's teams etc. Please don't get me wrong - be trans if you want. Makes no difference to me, but you can't expect to be a man, and just 'Identify' as a woman and compete in the woman's teams when you have the physical ability of a man. It's nonsense. If you were a man and want to be a woman, fine. But you need to have the full sex change and hormone therapy first. These people who put on a blonde(or whatever) wig and then say they are a woman today, while still carrying a huge pair between their legs and all the males testosterone is utter crap, and the very fact that they can get away with this just shows how stuffed-up all our regulations and things are today. Grrrrrr....  I draw your attention to that thread I started the other day: 'How binary works' to perfectly illustrate just how screwed up everything has become. Say what you will, but my personal belief is that it is cos of the loss of the mental asylums. A few years ago, people like that would have been committed, as they are obviously not firing on all cylinders, but now days you are expected to not only deny that your engine is only running on two or three, but that it sounds better like that, and the performance is greater. Logic and reality come second to not hurting someone's feelings. Well, Milo Yiannopoulos said it best I think, although I won't quote him here exactly: "F your feelings." Opps. I think you did get me started. Where did I put my sedatives? Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5119 |
Be careful about where this thread is headed, we dont want to get too off topic and test the forum rules. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| Paul_L Guru Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
OK, Glen, I don't care for discussions about gender triangles. I'll head it back toward cars. Nope!! You're not thinking along the correct lines. A thong is basically a small triangular bit of cloth attached to a string. Ah ... das VW Kuebelwagen! Doctor Ferdinand Porsche designed that thing for Hitler's WWII wehrmacht. It was assembled during WWII at the Stadt des KdF-Wagens plant, which had been paid for by Germans who bought stamps at the post office in payment for the future delivery of a VW bug, and was renamed Wolfsburg in 1945. The body was built by the GM owned firm Ambi Budd Presswerke (which had been known earlier as Adam Opel GMBH) in Berlin. The Kubelwagen for the WWII Nazi army had its body built by a GM division! (In the states we joke about the convoluted, incestuous genealogy of families from appalachian states like Kentucky and Tennessee. It looks like the auto manufacturers acted like hillbillies.) Kubelwagen >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VW_Kuebelwagen_1.jpg After WWII the allied occupation government decided that the Wolfsburg plant was owned by the German people since it was then impossible to determine exactly who had paid for the VW trading stamps and was therefore supposed to receive a bug. The newer postwar VW plants wound up being built by common stockholders. But what should VW do with the Kuebelwagen design? In 1968 they modified the Kubelwagen slightly by basing it on the wider floor pan of the 1950s Karmen Ghia, the reduction gear and swing axles of the Transporter, and assembled it in Wolfsburg and Hannover (as the Kurierwagen for Germany or Trekker for the UK), Mexico (as the Thing for the US and the Safari for Mexico) and Jakarta which is probably where your "country bug" came from. Thing >> https://www.autoblog.com/2017/10/24/volkswagen-hints-at-electric-thing/ You're right, it was fun, and it could outperform stuck four wheel drives because of its 60/40 weight distribution with 60% of its weight over the rear drive wheels. I owned four VW bugs, a 1953, 1956, 1961 and 1965, and they were all exceptionally good in snow. The 1953 was grossly underpowered at 20 hp. Their ground clearance was a little low so they could get hung up on a snow pile, but they weighed exactly 1640 pounds so a few guys could pick up one end at a time and lift it out of ruts in the snow. The Kubelwagen, with more ground clearance, would have been much less likely to get hung up on a snow pile. Our beloved Uncle Sam put all the original bug derivatives out of production because they couldn't be made stronger in collisions with bigger vehicles. The current front wheel drive bug weighs about 2600 pounds in its US form. The same thing happened to my favorite small vehicle, the BMC/Leland Mini (Morris/Austin etc.). That genius 1959 design was inspired by Leonard Lord's demand that it fit in a box 10' x 4' x 4' with the passenger space occupying 6' of the length. Sir Alex Issigonis, Jack Daniels and Chris Kingham completed the design in 4 months. It was two feet shorter than the VW bug, weighed 1280 pounds, used a front transverse engine with the transmission in the engine sump driving the front wheels, used Dr. Alex Moulton's design of progressive rate rubber cones fully independent suspension, had enormous interior room, and, in its "S" version, astounding performance. The current BMW Mini weighs 2700 pounds, is half a foot longer than the VW bug, has reduced interior room, and is as slow as molasses, mostly thanks to Uncle Sam. Fun with the 1969 Mini Cooper "S" >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFRS4XrUVV0 My uncle wants to protect me from living. I want him to leave me alone. Paul in NY |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Acknowledged. Sorry....  Back to the eight-legged freaks.....(great movie, BTW) Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Indeed.  The classic mini was a thing of beauty. And still is. I own a Clubman one I am doing up. The whole gearbox in the engine-oil was something that at the time, was REALLY frowned upon by other engineers, stating that metal debris from the gearbox would compromise engine life. Did not seem to be the case. Despite the fact that the gearbox was running in engine-oil and not transmission fluid, it did not seem to hurt the gear-changing ability of the car. The earliest Mini's had a dog of a gearbox, with the 'Pudding-stirrer' gear-change handle thing. Once they changed that to a remote linkage, the box worked much better. The earlier pudding-stirrer gear change lever had so much inertia, it would cause the box to jump out of gear!I simply LOVE these power plants, and properly tuned, they can really work well. Take a look at David Vizard's 'How to modify your mini' book - a must have for anyone working with those A-series engines and boxes looking for performance mods. There is also this video on YT: David Vizard - Tuning The A-Series Engine. It's a long video(two hours), but goes into fantastic detail. The same engine/box was used in the Allegro, 1100/1300, Woolsley and more then just a couple of home-bake cirus-train type rides cos you could just bolt the entire front subframe assembly to a mock 'Train' for the 'Engine' of the train. Oh dear......i'm ranting again......   Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Boppa Guru Joined: 08/11/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 814 |
yah a thong (or gstring) but if its not covering their fanny (english/oz version) then they are wearing it back to front.... remember that the yank version is wrong, and the 'proper' english version is not referring to their bottoms.... ( to help clear up any confusion- please see words and their meanings ) Actually it has no connection to the Kuebelwagen at all, it was designed, built and manufactured in Oz only, by VW Australia- when the Germans found out they were making it without permission from the head office, they made them stop, hence the only 2 year production run, which ended before the Kuebelwagen derivatives were even built (personally, I suspect that the head office had seen how popular the Country Bug had been and decided to copy it designed in 66, produced 67-69) The country bug used a beetle floorpan, with splittie swing axle gearbox and reduction boxes, but they mounted the reduction boxes 90 deg so they increased the ride height considerably over the stock beetle or kombi. Front axle was also splittie, with king pins and modified axle stubs again to increase ground clearance from my album (we got a bit overenthuiastic on a VERY steep slope lol)    And probably the worlds most incredible beetles and is now in the VW museum in Germany Antarctica 1  These two beetles (Antarctica one and Antarctica two) were responsible for a sewing machine oil crisis in Oz, as they had purchased all available sewing machine oil to put in the engines and gearboxes! Apart from having 2x 6 volt batterys fitted under the back seat instead of one, and the sewing machine oil fitted, they were totally unmodified for their Antarctic tour (from memory they were down there nearly 30 years, performing superbly) |
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| Paul_L Guru Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
@Boppa - It's been so long since I have bothered to look at a thong in detail that I don't remember what you're talking about. Nowadays when I wake up if I don't smell flowers and see candles I get up. I just noticed that the country buggy had no doors and seems much lighter than the earlier Kuebelwagen so it's definitely an independant design. Too bad those guys in Deutschland made you stop. It looks useful. That Antarctic bug seems to have a curved windshield and the big tail lights. Was it a bug II with the coil towers in the front or did it have the earlier torsion bars and king pins? What year was it? Did they hook the batteries in parallel? I seem to remember that the bug 2 showed up in the states about 1968. A friend brought one in on a cargo aircraft in 1967. Sewing machine oil???? Why did they bother? They should have switched to a 5W synthetic like Mobil 1 which would have been available in the 1960s. Paul in NY |
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| Boppa Guru Joined: 08/11/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 814 |
Australian bugs bear little resemblance to their O/S cousins up until 69, as we had 95% local production rules in place, so we actually had our own machines for body stamping etc Antarctica 1 was actually down there for 7 years, my bad, and was made in dec 62. The batterys were used in series (12v) for starting and 6v the rest of the time in parallel VW Australia insisted on running mineral oils only (and still do for aircooleds) hence the use of sewing machine oil It had the flat windcreen (they all did up until 69/70) and the standard small red/amber rear taillight, the later larger lensed ones in OZ (early 70's)were probably half as big again, and had amber at the top, red in the center and clear reverse lights at the bottom Being a 62, it was torsion bar front, drums all round (in fact all Oz ones were up until 72 from memory, and we didnt get the coilover McPherson struts till 74?? around then, and then only in the 'superbug' the standard beetles remained torsion bar fronts right to the end (altho with disc brakes I think for the last year or two) Ozzie beetle enthusiasts have to be careful ordering window rubbers etc from overseas as our were effectively locked in the earlier body shape right up until the plant closure in Melbourne (which started making Datsuns instead) in 69, ours are effectively ALL the single rear window 50's body until then so ordering say a 65 US rubber kit wont fit.... |
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| Paul_L Guru Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
My '53 had a split rear window, the '56 a small oval, the '61 and '65 a larger oval. The '53 was 20 hp and took 95 seconds to get to 60 mph, the '56 was 36 hp / 45 seconds, the '61 and '65 were 40 hp / 32 seconds. The biggest drawback to the bug was the lack of passenger heat and defrost. I never had or even drove a bug II with the curved windshield and struts. A guy at Pan Am had a '72 with a three speed transmission and a fluid coupling and he said it was useless. I finally gave up and bought a '72 Fiat 128 which was sort of a super sized Mini with transverse 4 cylinder + transaxle + struts + font wheel drive. It delivered 75 hp out of 1.4 Liter at 6800 rpm. It would get to 60 mph in 9 seconds, third gear topped out at 72 mph, fourth was good for 98 mph, and it was warm inside. It also used about 70% of the gasoline of the bugs. For all this time these were second cars. I always had a monster in reserve, beginning with a 1947 Caddy, up to my current 2011 Lincoln Town Car. I used to be 6'3" tall (I've shrunk) and always weighed about 300 pounds and I really need the room. My favorite was the '79 Cadillac diesel. Enough about old cars. I'm getting wistful remembering my lost youth. Paul in NY |
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