[caltaxed]

VW didn't have a gas gage until 1962, several years after the split window. It had a 1 gallon reserve that you had to switch the lever way under the dash.

On the freeway, the VDub would slow down to about 25 miles per hour before the mechanical pump pulled gas from the opposite side of the vehicle and fired up the big 36 horse motor.

[thecodont]

That sounds strange. It sounds like the fuel tank layout and design you’d find on a small aircraft.