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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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    “You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution


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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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