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Car of the Day: February 10, 2016; Hot Wheels '49 Volkswagen Beetle Custom
Topic Started: Feb 9 2016, 11:28 PM (638 Views)
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Today's car of the day is Hot Wheels' 1949 Volkswagen Beetle Custom

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The Volkswagen Beetle (officially the Volkswagen Typ 1, informally in Germany the Volkswagen Käfer and in the U.S. as Volkswagen Bug) is a two-door, four passenger, rear-engine economy car manufactured and marketed by German automaker Volkswagen (VW) from 1938 until 2003.

The Beetle featured a rear-located, rear-wheel drive, air-cooled four-cylinder, boxer engine in a two-door bodywork featuring a flat front windscreen, accommodating four passengers and providing luggage storage under the front bonnet and behind the rear seat – and offering a coefficient of drag of 0.41; to this relatively good CD, the also streamlined rear of car was of help. The bodywork attached with eighteen bolts to its nearly flat chassis which featured a central structural tunnel. Front and rear suspension featured torsion bars along with front stabilizer bar – providing independent suspension at all wheels. Certain initial features were subsequently revised, including mechanical drum brakes, split-window rear windows, mechanical direction-indicators and the non-synchronized gearbox. Other features, including its distinctive overall shape, endured.


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This is from a new Hot Wheels Volkswagen 5 pack. While I love Volkswagen's, the Beetle has never really done much for me. Because of that, I have very few in my collection. But coming from someone relatively indifferent to Beetle's, this is the star of the 5 pack. I think this is the best version of this casting done so far. The flat grey paint job, Von Dutch looking graphics and brown interior suit this car perfectly.

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Its engine, transmission, and cylinder heads were constructed of light alloy. An engine oil cooler (located in the engine fan's shroud) ensured optimal engine operating temperature and long engine life, optimized by a thermostat that bypassed the oil cooler when the engine was cold. Later models of the carburetor featured an automatic choke. Engine intake air passed through a metallic filter, while heavier particles were captured by an oil bath. After 1960, steering featured a hydraulic damper that absorbed steering irregularities.

Indicative of the car's utilitarian design, the interior featured painted metal surfaces, a metal dash consolidating instruments in a single, circular binnacle, adjustable front seats, a fold-down rear seat, optional swing-out rear windows, front windows with pivoting vent windows, heating via air-to-air exchange manifolds operating off the engine's heat, and a windshield washer system that eschewed the complexity and cost of an additional electric pump and instead received its pressurization from the car's spare tire (located in the front luggage compartment) which was accordingly overinflated to accommodate the washer function.

Throughout its production, VW marketed the Beetle with a four-speed manual transmission. From 1961 (and almost exclusively in Europe), VW offered an optional version of the Saxomat semi-automatic transmission: a regular 4-speed manual transaxle coupled to an electromagnetic clutch with a centrifugal clutch used for idle. Subsequently (beginning in 1967 in Europe and 1968 in the United States), VW offered an optional semi-automatic transmission (marketed as Automatic Stick Shift and also called AutoStick), which was a 3-speed manual coupled to an electro-pneumatic clutch and torque converter.

While the overall appearance of the Beetle changed little over its life span, it received over 78,000 incremental changes during its production.


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Drive it like you stole it!
Personally for me I like all things VW diescast so I also like this. One question? Is that messed up paint on the rood over the driver door and the ridge of the hood and a small spot on the rear decklid? or is it the way the paint was meant to be kind of with a patina on it?
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It's messed up paint, definitely not supposed to be that way. I half way think it might have fallen out of the package in the store and that's why it looks like that, but it could just as easily be poor paint. But the package was sliced open and taped back. I haven't seen another of this 5 pack yet so I'm debating if I want to deal with it or spring for a replacement just for one car.
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Drive it like you stole it!
Thanks, that explains the paint.
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pjedsel
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:toy: I like VW Beetles but not this particular casting.
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Hobie-wan
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Nice color combination for the chopped Bug.
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craftymore
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Support your local demo derby.

Sorta surprised to see HW hasn't yet eliminated the metal base on this one for the $1 line.
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
craftymore
Feb 10 2016, 06:17 PM
Sorta surprised to see HW hasn't yet eliminated the metal base on this one for the $1 line.
CRAFTY!! Shhhhhhhhh. Don't give HW any ideas!!
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I have to respectfully disagree with my friend PJ. There's something about the car's stance and the way they extended the front axle forward that is just "right". It sits right and has the right attitude for what it's supposed to be. It's not the sort of Beetle I'd like to someday own, but boy, is it (and similar 1:1 cars) fun to look at! Plus, being a VW Bug it has a proper horizontally opposed/pancake/boxer engine! Now all they need to do is polish out that darn flat paint. Or is it just blue primer. Finish the car and all will be well (I like 'em SHINY!).
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