re: #567 yma o hyd

Was that a Beetle?
We had one - second hand, had to give it up after it didn’t make it throug the official roadworthy test.
Well, there was a huge hole in back passenger floorboard, there was grass growing in one footwell, and the runningboards were tied to the body with string …

How we got two kids and all the camping gear for three weeks into it, I shall never know! Good times - got through a huge stretch of Ireland. Twice.

Yeah, a bug. The neighbors were German and they imported the car. All it did for years is sit out on the street, I think she just drove it to the store on a rare occasion. When I bought it in 72 it had something like 10,000 miles on it. It was in perfect condition. Had that trick little lever down on the floorboard that you could turn if you ran out of gas, it gave you something like a gallon more to make it to the next petrol station.