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A history of VW Beetles in Antarctica

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Vigilant1

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Okay, maybe not >directly< related to airplanes.

In the attached 30 minute video, a Scottish video blogger gives an interesting history of the several VW Beetles brought to Antarctica by Aussie and Kiwi govt research teams. Despite the -50C temps and brutally rough ice driving surfaces, the cars did very well. They had some minor modifications and ran very thin oil ("5-zz"?). VW got some good PR from the whole thing. These cars were minor celebrities down under, and 2 of them came home and won rally races.
The video has lots of movie clips of the cars running in the snow.



Ah, the little engine that gets the job done.

Mark
 
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