TLS wrote:
Had a few bugs myself. It's how I learned to drive with no brakes and sometimes with no clutch. Never both at once, thankfully.
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Describes my '66 beetle experience very well. When the accelerator cable broke I installed a Schlitz Malt Liquor can on the carburetor to make it idle high enough to toddle around town. Brakes were gone too. When the horn went out that made it dangerous, because without brakes you use a lot of horn.
Even nobody cares about my posts, ROTFL, here goes anyway.
I learned to drive a stick on a 1972 Bug and it’s a good thing I did. I drove ‘72 Nova and a ‘71 Roadrunner at the local drag strip for a while after that. My next car was a ‘67 Chevy short bed step-side pickup with an unsynchronized 4 in the floor and a 411 rearend, no heat, no AC, no power steering, no nothing. When I first got it, I kept getting between gears. The solution for that was to put on the emergency brake, crawl under the truck, and manually take it out of gear. I still have the scar on my arm from getting against the exhaust. I learned to double-clutch and that got better. It taught me to drive a ton flatbed truck with a 454 and 4 in the floor that had to be double-clutched when pulling a horse trailer or a load of hay.
Good old days for sure! It all started with that old Beetle.