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Originally Posted by dremd
I’ve owned 3x air cooled type 2 VW’s. Fuel economy was always terrible. Teens in MPg.
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At one point I put a fresh rebuild in my 1961 Type II panel van (dual-port 1600, 40mm Solexes and a single extractor exhaust) and to break it in I drove over the Coast Range at 55mph. At 60 miles I filled up and it took exactly two gallons — so 30mpg.
It spent the rest of it's time on I-5 above 70mph (top was 85) and (as you say) 17mpg.