I'm bummed out I missed that cruise :( I love Huntington and Santa Monica is pretty cool, driving around big city is awesome in general, Palm Springs is so boring lol

Wrong. VW's were European, where FM was the norm. If it had been AM, we could have received a dozen stations.

Look up radio history. FM was the rage in the early '50's in the US and many early '50's radios were AM/FM but it died out in the late '50's because FM had a limited transmission distance. A few FM stations stuck around to provide stereo to a sister station with one side on AM the other on FM. Our 1959 Fisher console used that technology.

FM came back in the late 1960's when it became possible to broadcast both side of a stereo channel on one wavelength.

Very true, you could probably launch yourself completely up and over! :eek::D

What else would a roaming gnome drive?

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Probably not too practical. IIRC, the weight distribution with a VW engine was around 35/65, A 6 cyl. Porsche would just be worse. You could get serious hp out of a hopped up VW but a 911 engine would probably give much more reliable power.

They are crude little POS's that rust out in like 3 winters. I'd recomend getting a better German car if you can afford to. Like a Mercedes or BMW.

Ahhh but see, you forget I'm in California, we don't have winter where I live just hot and not that hot lol The Bug is just going to be a fun toy car that I can practice DIY stuff on, pretty much a hit car.

Just because you had a bad experience with your 20 year old Golf doesn't mean all VW are pos. I had a Karmann Ghia and now have a CC and both are great cars! And the many past and present VWs in my family have been excellent!

we've got a '72 for sale...

100% rust free.
needs some paint.
brand new interior

yellow over black.

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Do you have any pics? :) and how much? :cool:

My mom had a Beetle and the clutch pedal went through the floor from rust. She pushed the pedal down after getting gas and it kept going...ended up on the pavement with part of the floor.:D Plus the heat never worked. She loved it, my dad cursed its existence since he was stuck fixing it. That VW drove my dad to buy his first ever new car for my mom, a 1986 Olds, which she had until 1999.:D

Actualy one of my friends is into them, he has a 60 something orange bug and a totaly orignal Bug convertable thats pretty cool. Reliable, but crude, cheap little cars. I don't get the attraction. I have had to rescue him twice in the orange bug.

Any classic Beetle driven year round in CT turned to dust in 5 years.

I had a '71 (I think) SuperBeetle with the Servex transmission. Bought it with just under 50k miles. Bilstein Rallye shocks, Avon Tires, Imron paint, Illuminition, Cabron header, synthetic oil (Red Line) from the day the previous owner bought it.

Why don't I have it anymore?? Because Danny Conaway was drunk one night, and rear ended me, that's why! And if anybody knows him, tell him he is a dirty no good s.o.b. for whom waterboarding is too nice, and I hope his gonads get some nasty incurable infection that make him die a slow and agonizing death over a period of two years.

Btw, The car was great fun to drive, quite quick, good on gas, and not all that hot in the summer. The heat exchangers had just been replaced with German ones (was told the Brazilian ones are not good), and they worked well when I used them in the colder states (while driving it home from the guy I bought it from).

End salted roads now.

I read that it's contaminating ground water.

So, I'm just guessing here, you and Danny aren't exchanging Christmas cards?:D

Couldn't agree more. Salt just makes slush and water which creates ice. Your far better just letting them compact like they do up north.