This VW's engine is a masterpiece of engineering and your photo is SUPERB. Congrats and V!!!

Nice shot and a nicely detailed engine! I had a '74 bug from mexico once and you see that little piece of rubber hose between the fuel filter and the carb? Well mine broke one sunday morning on the way back from the laundromat and whoosh! My car went up in flames. Did you know the heads are magnesium? That stuff is hard to put out. By the time it was over the car was a total loss! I still miss it.

thats i call an engine. nobody can destroy it. it runs, runs and runs.............. and runs. ********* VOTE ******* !!!!!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!

I had a 1976 super beatle(converted baja) with dual carbs for a few years and a 1967 bug that i drove the weels off of in the early 80's. I loved tinkering with those cars.....more fun than work in most cases :) **with a bit of bailing wire, small tool kit and a roll of duct tape you can fix any old VW. lol

many happy days wrenching my old '68. Only engine i ever truly felt like i knew. Wasn't the shape of that car, it was the heart and mind that went into it. New beetle is nice looking and everything, but it isn't a bug.

Yep, know it very well me and brother owned one in the old days. Great sharp detail shooting :)

I put my engines on 3DCommune as "polymuscle." The one item I like here is the vacuum advance mechanism on the distributor front row center and the yellow thing on the aluminum body with the orange brown cap. An employee of the California Department of Motor Vehicles discovered that by disconnecting that economy and good running could be sacrificed to low nitrous oxide emissions. It was the first tool in this new campaign and led to the most stumble bum cars of all time. That Solex carburetor (top center under the big black thing with the air horn) would have to yield to Bosch Luft and Kurtz (fuel injection)to relieve the congestion. Neither Gunk nor steam clean has peeled any paint here and the metal is squeeky clean.

Ahhh! That sweet sound...lovely detail here Ken, it should be in a Repair Book!!!! LOL!!! Have a brilliant Weekend...I'm Art Fairing again...Harrogate this Weekend....lots of 's to spend I hope! Cheers! Alan

Excellent shot again..!!! cool engine...well done.

I'm delighted with all the engine pieces! very neat edges...excellent shot!

My first thought (a while ago, since it's taken some days to get back) was of General Tanz, in the novel of Hans Helmut Kirst, who inspected the work on the engine of a quite different, earlier vehicle wearing white gloves....