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Mikey

Mikey

got muscles in his head that ain't never been used
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I had a '72 beetle, loved it. Easy clean carb, replaced all of the German rubber hose, that rubber hose was bad stuff, easy to work on. Always wanted a two seat Berrien sandrail with road tires. Never been an off-road kind of guy.
 
Mikey said:
A friend has driven nothing but Volkswagens
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My college roomate had a bug in Morgantown, WV no less - where there's such a lack of anything flat or level that ya can get vertigo just standing on the street corner:yikes: - can ya smell the clutch burning yet??:lmao:
 
We had a Baja Bug when I was a kid. About 15 different colors with a huge hole in the floor covered with a piece of wood. Always thought I was gonna fall out haha.

On a side note. - only bug I’ve ever really wanted was a Mexican Wedding Car. Saw one in my buddys fab shop and was sold… one day!

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Mikey said:
Just saw this on local FB ad and the price seems sweet
https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...place_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks
A friend has driven nothing but Volkswagens all his life
Imagine this 4 guys plowing through country roads (in the 70s) and you go in the ditch
Push shove lift push rinse and repeat
Don't Bogart that joint my friend :pimp:
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Not a bug but before my buddy any I had our drivers license we " borrowed" his moms vw rabbit. Real easy to grunt and get it unstuck between the two of us, when he spun it out on a icy gravel road into the farm field. Wasn't so easy explaining the broken rear window to his mom, that blew out when we bounced over the frozen chisel plowed field😃
 
Good to see you back, Mikey!!

I am 68 years old. Back in the the 70's I was a devotee of the bug, Ghia and Bus. I had 6 bugs , two Ghias and one Bus over a span of of about 20 years, and learned to wrench from the John Muir service manual, "Step by Step Repair of the VW for the Complete Idiot"

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I soon began rebuilding the engines and hot-rodding them, and doing full rebuilds.
Smoking a bit of hooch was a mandatory activity with VW involvement in those days :)

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YamadudeXS650C said:
Good to see you back, Mikey!!

I am 68 years old. Back in the the 70's I was a devotee of the bug, Ghia and Bus. I had 6 bugs , two Ghias and one Bus over a span of of about 20 years, and learned to wrench from the John Muir service manual, "Step by Step Repair of the VW for the Complete Idiot"

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I soon began rebuilding the engines and hot-rodding them, and doing full rebuilds.
Smoking a bit of hooch was a mandatory activity with VW involvement in those days :)

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My first car, '65 Beetle. Also had a 69 K-G, '72 K-G (wife's car) '74 Westphalia Bus (which was my tow vehicle for my Formula Vee, which we once went from Jacksonville Fl. to Elkhart Lake Wi) and my daughter's 1st car was a '72 Beetle, my son's, a '72 T-3 Squareback. The Complete Guide is the best VW manual ever printed. Lookin' at the engine photo makes me chuckle, I used my 36mm flywheel/axle nut socket last night on my Harley rear axle.
 
I've owned 3 bugs, a square back and a '59 Gia. I'd love to have any of 'em back. My younger brother and I made a living one year converting bugs to buggy's. Barely made a living, but it was fun. Got a pic of me and him in one around here somewhere's. If I find it I'll put it up here.
 
Suburbia in the 70's... five of my high school drunken vandal friends once carried a VW bug from a driveway and set it crossways in the middle of the street.
Same group, 5 of us in a VW bus that belonged to the driver's dad... in a school parking lot, he'd get up speed, hit the ice, and crank the steering wheel hard to see how many spin-outs he could achieve. Unsatisfied, he kept on escalating... until while spinning we hit a soft patch, the tires found traction, and the bus tipped over on its side. We righted it and carried on...
 
Had a few VW’s, 1950 small back window, 64 which I did a complete overhaul on, and a 69 van for travelling around Europe in 1973. Blew the engine trying to make the ferry at Southampton, then got stolen, never to be seen again. Used to pull the engines out on the side of the road in front of Mums house using a milk crate. I also rebuilt a trans, put it back together wrong and had 4 speeds in reverse. Kinda scary and funny doing 30mph going backwards. Fun times.
 
I did too
I remember driving my buddy's VW and he's yelling CLUTCH and BRAKE too as we were headed towards his parents garage door
 
jetmechmarty said:
The 1971 Super Beetle was the car I learned to drive on. Back then, in the Rust Belt it was an old car at four years.

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I associate a particular smell to a Beetle. It's a smell I will never forget.
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Oh wow. Look who had big money, a SUPER Beetle. I guess you won't be associating with riff raff like me. My first car was a lowly '65 6 volt beetle that was the color of dirty white laundry.
 

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