Wow

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm2.hf.intel.com>]

Good God, some of the stuff you guys/gals come up with amazes me.  Clocks, 
radios, gas heaters and multicolored gauge needles...I never knew there was 
so much behind these seemingly insignificant items.  Guess I'd lose when it 
came to air cooled trivia.

Keep it up,
     Toby "I never liked history" Erkson
     air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 1.8L for sale
     Portland, Oregon
     http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/

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Subject: Re: Anyone have an emden 3E??
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
Date:    7/17/97 7:31 PM


Blaupunkt named their radios after Cities.  Emden is a German city.
 The most common
Blaupunkts in VWs were Frankforts, the tube type radios being AM-FM-SW,
and the later
transistor models were AM-FM-MB (marine), both models with push button
station sets.
Another common Blaupunkt radio in VW is Essen, an AM only model.
The model names change
for differences like no push buttons, or AM only, or the most uncommon
signal seekers
(New York).  They even did a cassette model that would record.  Almost
all of these were
installed as aftermarket items in Europe.  Although they were sometimes
available in the
US, most US dealers would install Bendix Sapphires made under contract
for VW of
America.

I have an Emden 3B, a Vienna W, a Heidelberg W, a New York, an Essen
W, and four
Frankfurts, as well as a Sapphire IV (6 volt AM_FM), and two Beckers
(Europa, Grand
Prix) all working, and none cheap.  These are all radios that are
convertible 6 volt-12
volt, and the Porsche guys like them for 6 volt FM.

Tim Dapper