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The visible Volkswagen
Here in San Jose is a museum for kids called, ironically enough, "The
Children's Discovery Museum". http://www.cdm.org Inside are all kinds of neat things for little kids (and not so little kids) to do. They have electricity experiments like pulling two bowling balls 45ft in the air via pulley and rope, and when you let them go they turn a generator which makes a ceiling fan spin and cools you off. Or the water area where you put little balls in chutes of air and they get tossed into a funnel of water to be sucked out the bottom. All kinds of neat stuff. Anyway, on the main drag, they set it up so there's an intersection complete with traffic signals and crosswalks. On it they have a fire truck and ambulance, but they also have a little stand called the visible Volkswagen. It's a cut-away of the VW flat-four, showing the way an internal combustion engine works. Maybe a few future 'dub owners come away from checking that out. Here's a couple pics: http://madebyjenn.com/andy/VW/VW1.jpg http://madebyjenn.com/andy/VW/VW2.jpg |
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cool,
Here in Sarasota, FL there's an auto museum that has a working cutaway display of a Mazda Rotary. Stuff like that definitly does help people better understand the internals if you havent first hand torn one apart yet. Mark Detro Englewood, FL |
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Mark Detro wrote:
>cool, > >Here in Sarasota, FL there's an auto museum that has a working cutaway >display >of a Mazda Rotary. Stuff like that definitly does help people better >understand >the internals if you havent first hand torn one apart yet. >Mark Detro >Englewood, FL When I was a kid, they used to have those see through plastic models of an engine that you could put together. Wonder if they still make those. Bill Berckman 67 Beetle |
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Bill,
They also made the "Visible Woman" and "Visible Man." The visible V8 as well. Great ways to learn "How things work." Good for spatial relationships. Cool stuff....Eric 68 Bug 62 Ghia both topless |
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> >When I was a kid, they used to have those see through plastic models of an >engine that you could put together. Wonder if they still make those. My brother had a clear plastic Wankle..............LOL That sounds terrible to say that, but it's true. Remove "YOURPANTIES" to reply MUADIB® http://www.angelfire.com/retro/sster...IN%20PAGE.html one small step for man,..... One giant leap for attorneys. |
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