OT Re: VW

["Dan Ray" <danray@bluegrass.net>]

Yes. The first VW was made in 1935 by Ferdinand Porsche after Hitler
"requested" a car for the masses. The engine was basically the same. Porsche
designed the first Porsches during the same period -- sort of as "upscale"
versions of the Bug for the "above the masses" folks I guess.

Dan (I've got a VW Kafer history book in German here)
73 B


>Didn't Porche design the VW at Hitlers request?  Didn't he then use the
same
>basic VW engine in his own cars?
>
>PaulH.
>