Re: [T3] 2 unconnected questions - steering wheel + HP

[Per Lindgren <lindgre@online.no>]

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Daniel Baum wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> These two miscellaneous questions are unconnected but I couldn't see much
> point making two threads out of them.
>
> 1) Both the Hayes and Bentley manuals show "late-model" Type 3 steering
> columns with a three-spoke steering wheel. I've never seen any pictures of
> this kind of steering wheel in a car. Were they ever actually manufactured
> this way?

Now that you mention it, I've never noticed the fact that the wheel is a 
three-spoke wheel, and I cant say that I've seen that wheel before. I 
had a look in my 2 other air-cooled Haynes manuals (VW 1200 and 
VW1300/1500), but none of them uses the same illustrations, even though 
they could very well have done so. Neither did the Haynes Golf 1 manual 
I have here.

This could still be just an illustration that Haynes got from VW and 
that this wheels really was used in some different model, and not 
specifically be for a type 3.

> What was
> the difference between the engines? Did the 45HP 1600cc engine have a single
> carb?

The 45 hp version is a single carb 1500 engine, while, as you know, the 
54 hp version is the dual carb 1600.

PerL
73 Variant L

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