[GH85Carrera]

When I was still 15 and only had a drivers permit to drive with a licensed driver with me I was looking for a car. Dad said one of his co-workers was selling his 1960 VW bug that he had bought new. We looked at it, test drove it and dad gave me a $600 interest free loan. I had to pay 100% of all other costs, from tires to gas, to maintenance. The only exception was the insurance. Dad did pay my insurance bill, and yea, the room and board and free food and all other costs of a teenage kid.

With 36 HP when new it was likely 25 after many miles. Zero to 62 on a calm no wind day, dead flat road was 72 seconds, and 65 was flat out as fast as it would go unless you found a downhill section, and it would get to almost 70 but it was terrifying and the engine sounded like it was going to come apart. From a dead stop a fully loaded 18 wheel semi was too fast for me to out run. He had to shift 12 or 14 times, but I could not get in front of it, I had to drop back and get behind. There was one road that was a stop light, and the road ahead was 55 MPH limit, and I never could outrun the semis.

I had the car paid off in 6 months.