Gant Products, (now defunk) out of Germany in
1967 was the first company to offer those
'keys' You could buy them right at the VW
dealership! I owned two of them... back it the
day.... when I owned 17 running (and tagged) VW
bugs all at he same time.
Paul Tegler
ptegler@cablespeed.com
www.teglerizer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <ZoboHerald@aol.com>
To: <parrotthead01@comcast.net>; <spitfires@Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: Classic Motorsports
> In a message dated 12/7/2004 8:12:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> parrotthead01@comcast.net writes:
>
> What ticked me off was the title of
> the report was "Wind-Up Sports Cars"! What do you think?
>
>
>
> =======
> Ah, the truth hurts, doesn't it? As much as we all love Spitfires (and
> Spridgets and even Fiat 850 Spiders), they never were considered more than
> entry-level sports cars.
>
> Besides, does anyone else remember the giant, fake windup keys one used to
> be able to buy to put on the back of your funny little furrin' car? :-)
>
> --Andy Mace
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