Re: cry for help, weird car spotted

["simon" <simon@mail.ivic.net>]

my notch is odd??????? 
Eric
70 notch......step closer to seeing california bill 1492 pass....no more
smog


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> From: Jason Wilson <jwilson2@helios.acomp.usf.edu>
> To: type-3@umich.edu
> Subject: cry for help, weird car spotted
> Date: Thursday, August 28, 1997 7:15 PM
> 
> This post has nothing to do with vw's but, 
>  since we've all got type 3's, we all share a love of "odd" cars.
> 
> Here's one for you, 
> 
> a car was advertised in a local publication recently, it was called
> a "Goggle Mobile." it was in bad shape, the year was unknown and
> the Manufacturer was Unknown!
> 
> what i do know from a phone call with the owner is that the 
> title says Goggle (under the make category), and car looked sort
> of like a really rounded beetle (yes try to picture a beetle being
> even more rounded).
> 
> the owner knew nothing about the engine, and didn't exactly want to
> talk to me anymore, because i was asking him questions he didn't know
> the answers to, so i don't know if the engine was mounted in
> the front or the rear (he quickly got off the phone with me)
> 
> does anyone know what the heck this thing is??
> 
> $400.00 would drive it home..
> 
> in other odd car sightings, i saw an amphibicar for sale! there are
> only 1,400 of them left, they (as the name suggests) can go on
> land or sea, they have a triumph tr-7 engine, and 2 bilge pumps.
> it was a 64'.
> 
> again though i don't know the manufacturer of this one either.