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On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:06, Keith Park wrote: > > Wasnt the Bendix system on the early Vettes a basically mechanical > system?? > > Keith > > Yes. Bendix did hold some of the patents on the D-Jetronic FI. Bosch bought them. This is what we were told when I was at VW FI school, back in late '67. > > I believe Bendix made the systems which were used on a few Corvettes in > the > > early 60s. I believe the production on these was a thousand or two, so it > never > > got into the area of what might be called mass production in automobiles. > Thus > > it is true that Bendix made the first electronci FI system, but Bosch made > the > > first mass produced electronic FI system. > -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/