Bailing wire was a staple of our toolkit for that car.
(It ended up being driven on the sidewalks of Newton NJ and getting stopped by a foot patrolman. I was not involved in that one for once. But the kid who bought the car was.)
A guy with a Porsceh Boxter here was bragging about how much more sophisticated his car was than mine.
And he turned extremely purple when I mentioned what Ferdinand Porsche did before making Porsche.
*chuckle*
Carb fire in teh bug.
Ever see that neato little flame fountain happen?
(Got to see it twice, both times it was put out by FLOORING THE ENGINE which seemed to suck the flame back into the carb. We'd been changing some minor maintenance needing bits..)
I seem to remember having to hold the throttle cable in place while someone else wriggled like a snake under the car.
Didn't goof with the super air scoop thing that gulped air to cool the engine, it was deemed way too much trouble to bother with at the time.
You must have had the Pict 3 carb. I heard of it happening but I swapped the intakes and put a pair of Webers on after the cable fiasco. Found a VW specialist named Klaus on a referral. He REFUSED to work on my car. Said he'd rather teach me how to do things myself. He lent me any special tools I needed, gave me step-by-step instructions and checked on my progress every hour or so. Ended up putting oversize jugs and pistons, forged rods and "special" heads on the machine in one weekend. He apparently had the parts left over from some kid who didn't feel like paying. That was one fast little bug when we were done.
Not meaning to put down the Boxter but if it was a base model, I'm told the Subaru WRX will run circles around it.
I have odd tastes myself, I liked the 928...thought it was cool but it being front-engined, I'm told it wasn't a "real" Porsche.