Rare bird huh?
I miss the beetle.
But for a daily driver, very dangerous.
And couldn’t afford to keep it as a novelty.
Have fun. Those old VW’s are so cool.
A high school friend of mine had one
During one of the coldest winters in my memory I road shotgun with him.
My job was to scrape the frost off the window in front of him as he drove.
All of the hot air ducts from the engine to the defroster had rusted away long before he bought the car.
Ohio with its salted roads is no place to own a VW Bug
Those old VW Beetles were amazingly ergonomic, almost as if they were larger on the inside than on the outside.
I bought a brand new VW THING back in 1975. Never again. It fell apart just setting in my driveway, Right mirror fell off, hand brake came off in my hand, and after a while I could not drive over 45 mph for some reason. Radio vibrated terribly. window cracked when raising it.
Took it back to the dealer who could not find what was wrong. Traded it off to an UNauthorized VW dealer who had it running in 20 minutes. I had bought a Jeep.
My wife had a VW when we first met. Worst car I ever saw by a long shot. Of course it was one of those newer Beetles, not an original one. Dumbest engineering I ever saw. For instance, if anyone touched the cigarette tray (which was in the back because only kids smoke?), it would pull out the wire to the headlights.