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Originally Posted by Mark Henry
The best beater car for us was a 71 VW Super Beetle. Needed paint, but it was an almost rust free car, I couldn't sell it because it was a SB.
Wife needed a car for work, so I said how about the SB and she got 8 years out of that car.
Got it from a customer that I had built a performance engine for a few years earlier. By selling the HP engine (1904cc) the car was free, I had a stock engine kicking around and stuck it in.
I was surprised she would keep driving it, because at least once a year she would require a bum start. It would fail to start due to salt would kill the starter connections, but she just loved the cash it was saving us. The end came when it was too rusted out and she admitted that her days of driving a sketchy winter car were over.
She still loves old VW's and drives my '67 bus and bug quite often. Our Porsche 914 is actually her car, she bought it.
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Great story, I guess we all had a favourite beater or two in days gone by.