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    So long my old friend

    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    There are still a few million of them around, if you really want one.
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    I owned three...A '54 (first of the one piece rear glass) and a black '56 (with red leather Porsche bucket seats) in West Germany in the sixties...36 horsepower carried me anywhere I chose to go in Europe...And a '73 Super Beetle during my first marriage...If my memory is right (always a challenge) it had a 1600cc, 60 HP, fuel injected engine...I really wish I still had that '56...Somewhere in my 35mm slides I have some pics of it in the Alps......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    There are still a few million of them around, if you really want one.
    They once had a time and place in my life---but not so much anymore.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    There’s a bit of a gulf between a beetle and your Merc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    There’s a bit of a gulf between a beetle and your Merc.
    There is a reason for that
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    I still have my original 1969 that my Dad bought for 1700.00 brand new. It has about 180k on the clock still runs. Stays in the garage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    I still have my original 1969 that my Dad bought for 1700.00 brand new.
    My first two didn't have fuel gauges...They had ten gallon tanks that ran dry after you used about 9 gallons...If you were lucky enough to be moving at some speed when it happened, you pulled a knob on a cable which released the remaining gallon into the tank, after which if you were still moving in gear the engine would re-fire and you were on your way...If you were stopped when it happened, you had to pray your battery was strong enough to restart the engine...An important thing to remember was pushing the knob back in after you filled up, otherwise the next time it happened you were SOL...

    I usually just filled up when I had a few extra dollars in my fatigues...I don't know if your '69 had that feature or not......Ben
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    My dad was a pharmacist and for a time he had home delivery drivers who used the store Beetles to deliver. Occasionally, he brought one home from work. I was about 13 at the time and the rumor was you could not flip one over driving, so me and the guys had to find out firsthand. Being too young for a license, we “borrowed” it one night. We were not able to flip it, but not for lack of trying. Fortunately, I think the pathetic thing was just too slow for the task. I’m sure we took a few hundred miles off the tires though before we brought it back relatively unscathed and undetected. He also had Metros for awhile, which were even more pathetic, and we were afraid we could turn those things over, so we did not try, when we “borrowed” them.
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    I just replaced the timing belt on my 2002 TDI Beetle at 80 G. It should now be good for another twenty or so years.It doesn't get driven that much since the bride can no longer get out of it do to her arthritis.

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