I dont want many material things in life, but what I do want is a VW Beetle. Someday, I shall have one, and I will be content with it.
I had a 1961 slideback ragtop,canary yellow, right from Wolfesberg with original papers and coupons for oil changes and service in German. I bought it off an officer at a base I was stationed at in the Air Force.
Lowered to the ground far as she would go, custom velour interior, custom installed Selica seats, Empi Quickshifter, Rhino re-enforced case tranny,lightened flywheel,rebuilt the 1835cc engine with dual twin barrel carb set ups and all teflon bearings,chromed out, Stinger exhaust sytem, back seat removed to fit a custom built boomin' sound system in the back, naked chick air freshener hanging from the rear veiw. Tricked out litle *******! Fast too,had her up to 105 one time. She came out of the hole like lightning. I used to run her with the stinger removed sometimes, sounded like an F1, set off every car alarm for a mile! Had letters on the back window that said FUKKENGROOVIN. The chicks really dug my ride.
Got hit by a drunk driver. Got hit again by somebody going too fast around a corner in the snow, and blew out a couple of syncros racing my buddies 5.0 Mustang.
The kids came along and she had to go.
I miss her. :sad4: