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Noting your spelling of the noun pertaining to a driving permit, you must be a speaker / writer of American-English rather than ENGLISH, because in ENGLISH, licence is a noun whilst license is a verb.

I can understand that this migh t not be loud enough for rear seat passengers, but in my family's Westfalia Continental, the Javelin mono radio (VHF plus long, medium & short wave) with single speaker in the dashboard top, was loud enough in for front-cab seat occupants. Japanese made...

I should have written 195/40 R14 has a 21•5% smaller rolling radius & circumference than a 185/80 R14 tyre instead of 195/40 R14 has a 21•5% smaller rolling radius & circumference than a 195/40 R14 tyre which I noticed almost immediately after my post, but the website threw a wobbly, as it...

1916 cm³ is only 5 cm³ more than my VW 412LE based, 1911 cm³ VW Type 4 style engine (66 mm stroke x 96 mm bore) with twin-port cylinder heads (gas-flowed, 41 mm inlet & 34 mm exhaust valves) with much wider cylinder-barrel spacing than that a VW Type 1 style engine for improved air cooling, with...

I haven't heard of any of these, which shouldn't surprise me as I never venture anywhere near the alcoholic beverages aisle! My last alcoholic beverage ( a small rum & Coca Cola) was on the 75th Anniversary of VE Day, in May 2020. In accordance with my road-safety policy, I refrained from...

One could alternatively fit roof-mounted or A-pillar mounted speakers, which would be even closer to one's ears. Some sound deadening on the reverberating body-panels might also be a useful investment, especially in a panel-van. Personally speaking, I would wish to retain the air-vents and have...

That was a MAJOR typographical error! 185 R14 <=> 185/80 R14 => rolling radius = 328•8 mm | rolling circumference = 2047•1 mm 195/40 R14 => rolling radius = 255•8 mm | rolling circumference = 1607•2 mm 195/40 R14 has a 21•5% smaller rolling radius & circumference than a 195/40 R14 tyre...

In his television series, Martin Dorey seldom if ever cooked inside his VW campervan, preferring to cook al fresco, either over an open fire or on a portable cooker! I kept waiting to discover his technique for juggling the preparation, cooking & serving process actually within a typical VW Type...

I think you need to leave those "Stellas" at home unless you are just a passenger rather than the driver! Vesta freeze-dried meals were some of our favorites back in the 1970s & 1980s. I think they are still available from some sources. Freeze-dried vegetables in catering packs also used to be...

Keep in mind that apart from the special 1•2 tonne payload model, with special concentric suspension dampers & helical springs, British specification 1971~79 VW 1600 Type 2s with front disc brakes, did NOT have factory-fitted vacuum brake-servo units. VW OEM, heavy-duty rear suspension...

If you are using 40-Series, 195/40 R14C tyres (assuming such a commercial-van tyre-size exists!?!) with a 40% aspect ratio, on 14 inch diameter wheels, the overall engine gearing will be radically changed as will the speedometer calibration. Unless the vehicle's speedometer has been...

From what I recall, rear-wheel drive vehicles should have front-wheel toe-in, irrespective of whether the engine is mounted in the front, centre or rear. In contrast, front-wheel drive vehicles should have front-wheel toe-out. Badly aligned wheels will severely wear tyres in just a few hundred...

A blue/green wire is the norm for the oil-pressure switch and blue/white for headlamp main-beam. For consistency, I standardized on blue with coloured tracers for most warning & tell-tale lights and green with coloured tracers for gauges; using green/brown for the fuel gauge instead of brown...

When substituting non-standard wheels and/or tyres, one needs to be mindful of the combined effects of tyre external rolling radius & wheel offset on the steering-offset (aka scrub-radius) which can adversely affect steering characteristics. You are already familiar with some of the hazards of...

As I mentioned a few days ago, high-level brake-lights located at the top of a 1968~79 VW Type 2, first used after 31st December 1970, might run foul of the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989, which specify the legally acceptable height limits at which brake-lights may be mounted; normally...

Even in 1993, a VW Type 4 style engine would have cost one about £250 from a specialist VW breaker's yard and the transaxle about another £100.

I first drove my 1973 model-year (manufactured in late-August or early-September 1972), VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental motor-caravan in January 1975, which my father had bought second-hand, from an Australian hospital-doctor we met on a campsite in Greece during September 1974. It was...

If one is going to drive within 48 hours, I would be inclined to leave the beer and any other alcoholic beverages behind! As for light-weight portable chairs, here is what I have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Finlay_Maclaren

Don't complain later that you weren't warned! Ignorance of regulations is no defence in law! Besides that, you could have mounted it at the bottom of the window, where it would be more visible to cars following behind the one that is following you.

One of the advantages of having a horizontal engine-compartment hatch, with the aperture above the cooling-fan housing, is that one does NOT need to remove the engine, in order to replace a faulty dynamo or alternator on a VW Type 1 style air-cooled engine; which is especially useful when far...