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/IMG00...
[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.
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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 