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Tenneseestorm, you stirred up fond memories. My first card was a white vw bug (or beetle). It really is an unusuall and fun car to drive. The pedals are unlike any other car I know as they stand almost upright due to the fact the engine is at the rear of the car. What's unique about the vw bug as well is the fact that it uses NO WATER! Does anyone know of another car manufacturer that ever made a car like these guys? Pure genius.
In terms of strength and longevity, it is hard to find another car as durable and adaptible like the vw bug. I mean, I have literally driven this gunner of a machine on three (3) cylinders with my family inside and long stetches of hills to climb over a long period of time.
I also loved the simplicity of this car. You could easily do repairs on the engine even if you are just equipped with basic mechanic knowledge and a couple pieces of old tools.
Then there is the amazing convertibility of the vw bug. It's a body repair man's "play-dough". All kinds of styling has been done over the years. Well, for me, the basics were all I need. I couldn't afford the tweaks back then.
They even made some with automatic transmissions way back then in the late 60's. Mine was a shift-stick and that is one of the cons with the vw beetle. If you are not the kind to deal with some trial and error before you can manage those tricky pedals, then this might not be your kind of car.
Another problem that one may experience is the occassion breaking of the pedal cables, and what could be worse than, say, the brake cabel breaking at 60 miles an hour. Having said that, I have never had a life threatning breakage of any of the cables, thank GOD.
Even today many car entusiasts use them for racing. Pretty cool cars those vw bugs .
Tenneseestorm, you stirred up fond memories. My first card was a white vw bug (or beetle). It really is an unusuall and fun car to drive. The pedals are unlike any other car I know as they stand almost upright due to the fact the engine is at the rear of the car. What's unique about the vw bug as well is the fact that it uses NO WATER! Does anyone know of another car manufacturer that ever made a car like these guys? Pure genius.
In terms of strength and longevity, it is hard to find another car as durable and adaptible like the vw bug. I mean, I have literally driven this gunner of a machine on three (3) cylinders with my family inside and long stetches of hills to climb over a long period of time.
I also loved the simplicity of this car. You could easily do repairs on the engine even if you are just equipped with basic mechanic knowledge and a couple pieces of old tools.
Then there is the amazing convertibility of the vw bug. It's a body repair man's "play-dough". All kinds of styling has been done over the years. Well, for me, the basics were all I need. I couldn't afford the tweaks back then.
They even made some with automatic transmissions way back then in the late 60's. Mine was a shift-stick and that is one of the cons with the vw beetle. If you are not the kind to deal with some trial and error before you can manage those tricky pedals, then this might not be your kind of car.
Another problem that one may experience is the occassion breaking of the pedal cables, and what could be worse than, say, the brake cabel breaking at 60 miles an hour. Having said that, I have never had a life threatning breakage of any of the cables, thank GOD.
Even today many car entusiasts use them for racing. Pretty cool cars those vw bugs .
Sometime in the mid 60's, I can remember looking inside a friend's new Beetle "trunk", and reading "Achtung"!.... it then proceeded to give instructions for removing the spare...in German! Pretty cool.
I could have sworn I posted on this thread, erroneously, at that, I said a 72 Opal and it wasn't it was a 62 Opal Station Wagon. The speedometer was in Km/hr ( I got really good at converting in my head) and got about 32 miles per gallon.
1970 VW Bug, forest green, $2100 dealer sale price, made my Dad furious the guy wouldn't even throw in a free key chain for "that much money for a CAR." We drove it across the street and filled the gas tank for 33 cents a gallon.
I was 22. My, my, have things changed! (Loved that Bug and have always regretted selling it when it rolled over to 200K.)
Of course I remember my first car...
A 1966 Dodge Dart GT with 273-cu-in V-8.
I did some mods to it... dual exhaust, electronic ignition, 4-bbl carb (Carter 500 cfm AFB), Holley aluminum intake manifold, shift kit and a lower axle ratio (3.23 instead of the original 2.93s).
It was pretty fun to drive. I timed 40-60 mph in 4 seconds and 50-70 mph in 4.8 seconds. 2nd gear was good up to 75 mph. It averaged 16 mpg.
I was very glad that my first car had a V-8 engine!
First car I owned was a 1970 Chevy Nova SS L78. Burned through a few tires that first year I had her.
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Mine was the VW Beetle; one unusual car
We drove it across the street and filled the gas tank for 33 cents a gallon.
