Thermostat for an old Volkswagen??

Yep. Finally got under my bus last Friday. Cleaned off a bunch of grime and took pictures of parts that baffled me or I'd want an expert opinion on later. One of those parts was, as I learned looking it up in a book later, was a Thermostat. A thermostat on an Air-Cooled car?!? Apparently it opens an air vent to cool the oil. Mine is stuck "open", which means it takes longer to warm up my engine, which I learned from this German Supply article, which notes that mine are no longer produced, but the beetle version can be modded to fit in mine. Small project #8.

Update: Sometimes it feels like my life is a whacked-out movie review, other times I just mis-direct my blog entries. :-}

For the rest of you, a teaser:



Sometimes it makes you wish your hand was simply a chainsaw. (I do want to play that video game.)