re: #172 wheat-dogg

My dad used VW combis as work truck/family car from 1959 to ‘75 or so. So I grew up with VW bus in the garage. All you say is true, but the mofos were reliable. Our last bus was a ‘68 camper (no popup roof, though). Dad kept it running until rust finally got its way, and the sliding door would no longer stay in its rails. I think he sold it to a neighborhood kid in ‘75 who wanted to repair it.

We called it “The Roach”. You could not kill it. Except the dolt I sold it to did that by forgetting to check the oil and threw a rod through the block. My wife bought a Super Beetle before we married, when I was going out with her. Had it about 6 years. Not impressed with it after about 20 K miles or so. Buggy. Needed a wrench on it all the time. Left her sit a few times.