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I saw a 1960 BMW 700 coupe. It has a flat 4 air cooled engine with Type 3 style cooling. I didn't get to talk to the owner but looked at it. The fan housing had BMW cast into it so this was a factory not some conversion. The rear compartment (trunk) was the engine compartment only. It had engine tin that was a combination T1, T3. It sealed the bottom from the top like a T1. It drew air from a oblong hole where the rear was license plate mounted. I am not sure if that was correct place, as I would have thought a grill of some sort would have coveted it. It looked like a few pieces were missing on the cooling intake, I would have guess by the looks of things it would use a boot something like ours to go from the hole to a missing tin part that would cover the intake on the fan unit. It was also missing a piece from the underside of the tin that would connect it to the cooling intake. This stuff was missing so I would guess it would draw in hot air from under neath. I didn't get under it to look. the carburetor sat in the center if the engine raised up on a higher tube intake aka T1 on what looked like a single port head tube. Battery was in the engine compartment aka k. ghia. I thought it was kind of cool to see something else using our type of setup. Any one else seen one of these? Richard PapaG ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/