beetlemania
 

last old beetle rolled off assembly line in mejico yesterday.

how did the early beetle figure into your life, and lead you to the porsche marque?

do you still suffer from frostbite? did the idiosyncracies of the bug help in keeping your p car alive too? were more babes intrested in you when you were yound with a bug, or old with a p car?

My dad had a bug when I was a kid. Always stalled when he hit a deep water puddle and he would have to get out and dry out the distributor cap. The only bug I owned was when I lived in Germany. Painted it pearl white with red to orange flames over the hood and front fenders!

actually, if it weren't for the old beetle, I might never have bought a 944. Let me explain...

My friend Ben got a 1970 Beetle for his 16th birthday; his parents bought it from Bristol Motor Works' head mechanic, Dennis. About 3 years later, when Ben was bringing his car in for a regular service, he saw that Dennis had a red 944 and a white 944 for sale. The rest is history.

If you want to talk about history with a VW Beetle, ever try to cram 4 people with their golf bags, and bookbags, into one of those things?!?

Funny u guyz started this - I go on Saturday with a friend to pick up a 1974 Beetle 1300, New paint job - engine rebuild 57000 miles, alloys.

I will get his 1967 Austin Farina A40 for just taking him to pick up the beetle ;)

I had a '73 fastback in High School.

My uncle has a Beetle.

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-Z-man.

Had a 1970 beetle for a little while. Rolled it.

had a 67 bug that I bought w/120K miles on it, and sold 7 years later with 250K. No rebuild. Driven rudely. Put away wet. Amazing car. Had a 63 bug that I did a partial baja conversion on. 6v electrical systems suck.

The great thing about these cars was that anything that went wrong was either 2 days or $200 to fix. Easy to work on, plenty of parts, and surprisingly fun to drive.

That's why I want a Karman Ghia cabriolet.

I once bought a mid-seventies bug (It was the 75,000,000 Anniversary Edition) cabriolet, which would only run on 2 (and occasionally 3) cylinders. It was a total bomb! :D

I sold it about 12 hours after I bought it, because a co-worker fell completely in love with it, much more in love than I was. She's still got it today...

Forgot to add I paid $100 on the nose for it!

Yeap I rolled my bug, tried to explain to my mom that the swingaxles didnt make the bug the best handling car.

After that I learned bodywork, smoothed the roof and fenders out. rattle can prime/paint job and the car didnt look that bad.

I then drove head on into a tree to avoid rear ending a car when my brakes failed.

I then bought another bug with about 120K on the clock Drove it till I got a "civilized" car '66? mustang convertible ( wish I still had that one)

Bugs are great cars, Id like to pick up a clean pre-safety bumber one