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Originally Posted by barry12345
People forget but you could get five people in them and a couple of young kids behind the back seat in a pinch. My 65 also came with an auxillary gas heater that lasted trouble free for the ownership period.
I never found them hard on tires either. If there was a side wind just crank in some steering correction and drive them wide open on long trips.
Wolfsburg wailers as a description of them was not unreasonable.
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Barry, reminds me what Dad used to say to us children when have to sit on the back seat: sit still. We didn't understand until older that the seat could short the poles of the larger 12 volt battery.
Know someone that as a child, there parents fit all five children in, just as you were saying by using the cargo area.
But, you had a '65 which was the first year for ball joints. '64 and earlier were king and link pins and wander bad, especially with bias ply. My Dad tells of a time he drove in a famous windy part of the East San Diego/Imperial County desert and was going across all four lanes, including two oncoming. Nothing he could do, just hope no one came around the corner fast.
Reminds me something else he did when young and before the engine rebuild: drove that 1200cc engine putting out 40H.P. at 90M.P.H.. Not sure how he kept the front end down on the road.
