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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
My first "real" car was a '60 bug too, and I paid $600 for it!
If it was sold in the US it was probably the Deluxe model, not the base model.
The Standard (base) VW had painted bumpers, hubcaps, and door handles; cable brakes; the seat didn't have a slide to adjust it fore and aft. Only 2 fuses in the fuse box.
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The car I had was sold to some Air Force officer in Italy originally. My dad talked about the first time he encountered a VW in the mid 1960s. One of his pilot buddies was in the hospital from intestinal issues. He had driven himself to the hospital. Dad when to see him and the guy asked if dad would take the car home to his garage for him. Of course he said sure.
It was parked facing a wall so dad hopped in and tried every possible position to get reverse. No luck, so he got a couple of guys walking past to push him back and dad drove it home, assuming the POS did not have a reverse gear. When dad talked the the VW owner he said oh yea, I forgot, you have to push down on the shifter to get reverse.
We had a 57 bug in Hawaii in 1970. To get up the hill to Tripler hospital it required first gear and no way to upshift. Traffic always backed up behind us.