We had a '72 Super Beetle that we drove in Ohio winters. You describe the heat performance when the ducting was intact - after it rusted out a bit, you were lucky to get air to the cabin at all.
Ours had the Autostick transmission, so you could drive with one hand on the wheel and the other on the windshield scraper to see where you were going. - Cal > tomw via EV <mailto:ev@lists.evdl.org> > October 30, 2014 at 10:41 AM > > > The Commutacar reminds me of VW bug cabin heating from the engine. The > ducting was integral to the unibody construction with no insulation just > steel. By the time the air got to the cabin it was cool. I drove one for a > 80 mile round trip. On cold winter days I clearly remember getting out and > feeling like my feet were bricks, completely numb, despite having 2 > pairs of > wool socks and multiple layers of clothing on. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141030/cff8266d/attachment.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: compose-unknown-contact.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 770 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141030/cff8266d/attachment.jpg> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
