Question for the VW trivia buffs...

Who coined the phrase 'Dak-Dak'? Does anyone know the specifics of its origins?

No idea yet but I found this site

http://www.vwbusstop.demon.nl/vwnamepage/#type1

http://www.autospeed.com/A_1307/page1.html

Article:
The Changing Face of VW

The maker of the "dak dak" challenging Benzes?



No closer and not subscribing to get other pages

Found another article
http://www.autospeed.com.au/A_1299/page1.html

Hillclimb Hero
.....A 450hp+ supercharged VW flat-four cocooned in a carbon fibre body with an all-up weight of 420kg? Work those figures and you'll find a power/weight ratio of over 1000hp per tonne! ...

Peter picked up his dak-dak powered SCV racer in 1994.....

Sorry guys won't take up more space unless I find it

Ooooo, look at this cool pic (Col are you there!!!)
http://www.australianlandscapes.com/The_Photographers/Ron/Ron_s_Page/7R/7r.html

😀😀

Someone once said I had too much time on my hand, beginning to think they are right. I like to testing the internet.

[Edited on 6-9-2002 by jenz58]

dak-dak
noun a Volkswagon car of the first type produced. [imitative of the engine noise]

http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/p/dictionary/slang-d.html

Who coined it? Someones kid?

Sorry about previous post, text is somehow wrapped in addresses. 🙁

The pic is worth seeing so here it is again I hope


http://www.australianlandscapes.com/The_Photographers/Ron/Ron_s_Page/7R/IMG0007_JR.jpg

[Edited on 6-9-2002 by Aussie BLKBUG]

Read this thought I was the only crazy one 😀

http://angusmf.home.mindspring.com/Bob/mysteryltr.html


:lol

When the stuffing and perforated inside tubes collapse (as they inevitably do) the chirrup sound almost diappears, leaving just the Dakka Dakka Dak sound of the beat.


From

http://www.fweematorium.fsnet.co.uk/oldsite/fwexpln.htm

Lots of stuff on freem, crazy stuff

OK there are people in the NH talking dak dak sounds now :o

I'm out a here

Sorry guys, but Dak Dak has been around a lot longer than any sources mentioned... I think the first time I saw it was in an american novel penned in the 70s. 🙁

Is it the peashooters that make that chirping sound? I only seem to hear it on the later models with 1600 motors.

yeah i think the kubel story is a bit of an urban myth. I think it is just the clattery sound of a beetle motor, just have one of the exhaust flanges loose and u will know where dak dak came from.

the whistle created by the peashooters is unique to cheaply made brazilian peashooters. The spotweld on the perforated tube bit breaks off and it thus reverberates in the pipe. German tailpipes don't usually break like that and dont have that chirpy whistle sound.

for the record the chirpy whistle sound is referred to as "Fweem" on the RAMVA newsgroups.

jenz58 wrote:When the stuffing and perforated inside tubes collapse (as they inevitably do) the chirrup sound almost diappears, leaving just the Dakka Dakka Dak sound of the beat.


From

http://www.fweematorium.fsnet.co.uk/oldsite/fwexpln.htm

Lots of stuff on freem, crazy stuff

NOw how in the hell did THEY get hold of it - that stuff on Dakka dak was my original article on Fweem which I wrtoe and sent to John Henry in the USA for his "alternate" site on fweem - about 4-5 years ago.

Amazing that it found it's way all round the world and back again.

Incidentally the quote was from a larger article with a technical description of fweem - condensed to it's essence, there are two parts to fweem - the beat and the whistle/chirrup. The beat comes from the internal design of the muffler and the firing order which results in left left right right pulses out the peashooters; and the whistle comes from the smallish internal diameter of the perforated inner tube in the peashooters and the resultant high gas speed (hence the comments about the dakka dak sound when the perforated pipes rust out).

Regards
Rob
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Oh my goodness an article author was amongst us😀

It did seem to me as a newbie that dak dak is a common world wide term for a type of engine noise.

Who started calling Aussie VW'S Dak Daks?

Was it a name that just caught on and became common use with it's starting point unknown? Some guy trying to get the right dak dak sound happening and his mate asking how the dak dak was going?

Just letting you know Komb123 that you have me listening for dak dak sounds :o

Even had my window down the other day when caught in city traffic trouble was that the little fence posts along the median strip were making a swish swish sound as we passed 😀

Hehehe could the listening for sound become as addictive as Punch Buggy?

Already doing it 😉

I have "V-Vision" which incorporates looking AND listening for V Dubs - if you hear it but don't see it, its a "Ghost dub" 😀

It gets really confusing at VW events though - you have to turn off the V-Vision, or you get a sore neck from turning around all the time hehehhe

*waves*


Jay

Queen of Chat

Yes Jen, I am 'out there', 😀 and cool pic!! (I have seen it before though in a magazine.)

As for the chirping sound (I call em 'crickets' - go bug-power!), our 1500 SP does it also. It seems to be almost directly related to vacuum, or maybe timing advance?

I love the sound of my little Bel

Yes, I'm realising that it's addictive but a sweet addiction.

I've had a guy, filling his beetle, look over his shoulder as soon as her heard Bel pulling in. We smiled that knowing smile 🙂