Greg,
I remember it is as "Joe Heishman." And I think he was a VW dealer in
the D.C. area. But, yes, there were hot VW's in the mid 60s here..
Vaughn
> ----------
> From: Gregory Petrolati[SMTP:gpetrola@prairienet.org]
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 1997 11:06 AM
> To: Malcolm Cox
> Cc: vintage-race@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Question
>
> On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Malcolm Cox wrote:
>
> > A friend is a VW bug devotee and asks how come there are never any
> VW
> > bugs in vintage racing, my smartass reply was well they probably
> were
> > never appropriate for racing in the 60's.
> >
> > But on reflection, seems that just about everything else was raced
> in
> > the 60's. In England for example Autin A30's and A40's, Morris
> Oxfords
> > etc etc, all quite inappropriate for racing, were often raced in
> "saloon
> > car" racing.
> >
> I seem to remeber Veedubs in the Trans Am series... At least I
> remeber the pix in a recent series of articles in Vintage
> Motorsports
> Magazine... On a personal note there was a Veedub dealer in the
> DC area (Heishman or Heitmann) that provided "hotted up" bugs
> for
> the local sporty car types. I believe they were called "Heitmann
>
> (or Heischmann) Stingers". I think this was before Yenko was
> messing with Corvairs.
>
> Greg Petrolati
>
> gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
> "That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
> Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
>
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