Re: today was unique, good, bad and unusual....

Posted by Dave Brownell On 2014/6/9 15:54:30

I am calling the VW/Audi plastic white, when it's really a yellowish white color. My Range Rover and BMW and the newer Corvettes have the dark gray or black plastic. To me, the VW stuff looks like a much thicker version of what you would see in coolant recovery and windshield washer tanks, but much thicker, surrounded by aluminum protection. It's really the under the back seat access panel for the fuel pump that lights my candles.

But it's also been a few years since I have actually looked at our VW family fuel tanks. For the past ten or so years, they all have come with plastic (and removable) aerodynamic cladding on the undersides, making them go through the air better and resist slush and slop build up.

Think what Packard could have done with that technology! Couple those chassis cladding panels with Torsion-Level, stainless steel exhausts, and GM's zinc-coated sheet steel (and air flow rocker panels) and our Packards would not be the rare beauties that they are. They might have survived like 57 Chevies.