I was thinking back to a few years ago when a local fella brought a VW Trike 
over to show me his new acquisition.  He kept telling me it was an automatic 
and I figured it was a semi-automatic.  Well, as it turned out, it reallly was 
an automatic transmission and the trike was made for a handicapped guy who 
couldn't operate a clutch.  As it turns out, it used a 1500sp hooked to a fully 
automatic transmission which would have been or a Type 3.

What I was wondering is if anyone has ever managed to put a fully automatic 
transmission from a Type 3 in a Beetle?  Since I believe the tranny was shifted 
via cable, fabricating a shifting mechanism wouldn't be hard at all.  Then I 
would suppose there would be some axle length adjustments, etc.  I think this 
would make a neat conversion.

Erin
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