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Pretty cool thanks for posting the oldies but goodies. Finding one to refurbish would be a full time job I presume.
Oh Yah, And Lots of $$$$... Don D.
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bahmer wrote:
Pretty cool thanks for posting the oldies but goodies. Finding one to refurbish would be a full time job I presume.
Don, I owned one of these. It had a camper top that you could raise so you could stand up fully erect. I think I paid $50.00 for it and much to my wife's chagrin sold it for $25.00.
The vehicle was amazing. It would go through mud, snow, was lousy on ice but what vehicle isn't?
I was doing construction maybe 30 miles from home when a winter gale came in and dropped 12" of snow. Around 12:00 noon, my mates and I hit the local bar thinking we were getting a dusting, too dangerous to be crawling around on rafters but no big deal. We came out of the bar around 1600 with about 8" of snow on the roads and still coming down. Heading home there were people in cars stuck here and there, we'd stop and get them going again. This went on until about 8:00 or so and then on to home.
I had owned 3 Bugs prior to this one. My brother and I could remove the engines in about 20 minutes and have it disassembled in a hour and reassembled with completely new parts in about a hour and half. That was in our basement with no lifts, we didn't even use a floor jack. If I had to do it alone, I'd need a floor jack.
My wife had better instinct, the rounded back corner glass should have been a hint but when you are young and have a new baby the thinking in that direction isn't so great.
At any rate, thanks for making the post, I'm eating my heart out right now. The other thing is if we have an EMP strike, this vehicle will keep running, as it did back then, modern cars won't
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