The visible Volkswagen

Nov 10, 2004 5 Replies

Here in San Jose is a museum for kids called, ironically enough, "The Children's Discovery Museum".

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Inside are all kindsof neat things for little kids (and not so little kids) to do. Theyhave electricity experiments like pulling two bowling balls 45ft inthe air via pulley and rope, and when you let them go they turn agenerator which makes a ceiling fan spin and cools you off. Or thewater area where you put little balls in chutes of air and they gettossed into a funnel of water to be sucked out the bottom. All kindsof 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:

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That's really cool! Reminds me of the cutaway '59 Mini they had in the London Science Museum :-)

I wonder what the history of the engine is?

-- Howard Rose

1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe 1962 Austin Mini Deluxe 1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
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(cars on website)

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

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

My brother had a clear plastic Wankle..............LOL

That sounds terrible to say that, but it's true.

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