VW Bug Discontinued ... For Now

[bluto]

My swmbo owned a Datsun b210 in her university days . I begged her not to sell it , instead put a few bucks in and maintain it .
Thirty years later , she gets my point .

 

[voorhees]

Mentioning weird things...

remember the 1974, V8 stock, Gremlin X? Power, speed, and ugly. I had a friend whose older brother had one. 0-100 in seconds, but the car didn't always go in the direction that you intended. Squirrely as shit.

Now that I'd have. Fast, weird and unique.

 

[bnichols23]

swmbo

Bluto, you might have to translate that for some. Me, I *know* about Haggard as well as Rumpole of the Bailey, so "She Who Must...." didn't need any expansion. } The little B was a sweet car, especially if properly swathed in yaller!

Gremlin X? Power, speed, and ugly. I had a friend whose older brother had one. 0-100 in seconds, but the car didn't always go in the direction that you intended. Squirrely as shit.
Now that I'd have. Fast, weird and unique.

Definitely spot-on on all of that; one quirky little, er ... thing. -laugh-
Tom, Pepe', know what you mean. With all the hot cars my dad ever had, he said the one he had the most fun with was his '65 Ghia. You could thrash that little critter around like nobody's bidness. He said he could always tell when I'd been driving it because of the smell of gasoline. He was never too happy about my driving the XK-Es, but never forbade it. Remember my comment about the Dauphine & the size 9 shoe? That's what *he* wore. Regulars. He could finagle his feet around in the E-Type's approx. 9.5-10" wide footwell with 0 problem. *I* sure couldn't. At 15 I was already wearing size 12s. Wides. Anybody who knows the E-Types' wells/pedals can easily imagine me trying to heel-toe with those clodhoppers!

 

[skaukatt]

I owned a '69 Beetle in that powder (light) blue, what a great car! I also (still) have that idiots guide, I believe I even have one for the Rabbit too which I also owned for a number of years.

 

[pappymac]

I owned a Datsun 411 when I was stationed on the coast of Washington State. Who knew and ugly box of a small car could handle as good as that one did.

 

[bnichols23]

Datsuns always did seem to have pretty good handling. Part of it of course was the short wheelbase but unless the underpinning architecture was right it could be awfully squirrelly. Datsun usually seemed to know what they were doing there.