Re: [T3] SB with IV engine--was Wasser engine

[Constantino Tobio <ctobio@gmail.com>]

<x-flowed>Dave Hall wrote:

> > > In the front or the rear? (Because I once saw what looked like a Rabbit/Golf
> > > with a type 1 engine in the rear.) Could this have been one of your early
> > > Polos?
> > >
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> > I've seen photos (god only knows where) of allegedly FRONT engined
> > sedan-type aircooleds, also. I would love to see a website somewhere
> > officially documenting the oddballs produced by Volkswagen do Brasil.
> >
> >    
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> The Brazilian Gol had a front engined aircooled Type1.  I wouldn't like to say
> if it was a Polo or Golf body - though I tend to think it was Golf.
>
> They made a Polo Sprint - a squareback Polo with a 1900cc rear-mounted flat four
> watercooled digijet producing 136hp.  Since our Polo scrabbles its front wheels
> on 45hp, I think they were wise to rear-mount the engine!
>
> Dave.
> UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club
> http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/
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Supposedly all these Polo, Gol, Parati, Saviero are the same platform, 
namely the BX platform. This is not to be confused with the B1 platform, 
which was the original Passat/Dasher.

I found a treasure trove of info on this creature, including the 
elusive  air cooled FWD Gol (not Golf!)

Origins of the species:
http://www.lunaticfringe.org/vwfox/specs/Fox-origins.html

And the Elusive Gol. Check out the stylin' 2 spoke steering wheel and 
Porsche-like engine fan shroud:
http://www.lunaticfringe.org/vwfox/specs/VW-Gol-LS-1981.html

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