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buglifebaby
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 Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 10:57 pm Post subject: How'd you get your bug home? |
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Tow it by rope, trailer, flatbed, freight, pushed, pulled, push started or.....?
Still working on getting mine home!
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RDbugger
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Ring a local towing company. |
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20Louie06
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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Hot wired it and drove it home 20 miles. The car had been siting for 2 years. Electrical part of the ignition switch was done.
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Relyt
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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my room mate barely hobbled it home as I followed.
The front left tire would randomly wobble out and drag the car to the left, then his door would pop open as he had to hold it shut. And he had to use the e-brake as the brakes were shot, and keep his foot on the gas to keep it alive. We had to push start it after getting some gas into it.
We traveled all low traffic back roads.
Good times...
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vw_hank
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 12:47 am Post subject: |
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my 72 I drove home smoking the crap out of the clutch, at every stop I had to rev the hell out of it and ease the clutch out super slow to keep it from staling..
The good story was my 74  it belonged to A crack head that hung around my job,, he was bumming money one day, so I asked him were his bug was(I hadn't seen the car in like A month or two)? he asked why? told him ill give you $25 for it,, and he said he would take $50. Ok you got the title?
gave him the cash, called A friend to go with to pick it up.. car was in the geto at A dive apartment,, he meets me with another friend and we go to git the car,,,,,, git there and its sitting on 4 flat tires(someone had cut) the front seats are sitting on the side with A ice-chest between them, and there are people sleeping in it  I had to knock on the window like I was the cops! and tell two homeless guys that I was there to take there house after thy got all there stuff gathered up and got out, we hocked up the tow strap, my one friend said he wonted to drive the bug (yuck!!) ok its all you man!! towed it about A mile to A friend's house that bug was back there fish tailing all over the road!! I could see him back there looking like A ghost, with wight knuckles got to friend's house he jumped out and said it was the scariest thing he had ever dun in his life!!!! all I could do was LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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reded68
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| vw_hank wrote: |
my 72 I drove home smoking the crap out of the clutch, at every stop I had to rev the hell out of it and ease the clutch out super slow to keep it from staling..
The good story was my 74 it belonged to A crack head that hung around my job,, he was bumming money one day, so I asked him were his bug was(I hadn't seen the car in like A month or two)? he asked why? told him ill give you $25 for it,, and he said he would take $50. Ok you got the title?
gave him the cash, called A friend to go with to pick it up.. car was in the geto at A dive apartment,, he meets me with another friend and we go to git the car,,,,,, git there and its sitting on 4 flat tires(someone had cut) the front seats are sitting on the side with A ice-chest between them, and there are people sleeping in it I had to knock on the window like I was the cops! and tell two homeless guys that I was there to take there house after thy got all there stuff gathered up and got out, we hocked up the tow strap, my one friend said he wonted to drive the bug (yuck!!) ok its all you man!! towed it about A mile to A friend's house that bug was back there fish tailing all over the road!! I could see him back there looking like A ghost, with wight knuckles got to friend's house he jumped out and said it was the scariest thing he had ever dun in his life!!!! all I could do was LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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mtdorajohn
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Bug #1; Changed the oil and drove it 800 miles home.
Bug #2; drilled holes in the rusted bumper, mounted a tow bar ($39 from harbor freight) placed the magnetic tow lights on the back bumper ($11 from harbor freight) and towed it home. |
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tgsanford
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Found it in North Florida, changed the oil, drove it home to Atlanta. Then tore it apart!
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johnnypan
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Glenn 
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Ross UK
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| PO delivered mine as I had sold his daughter my old one the year before. |
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fred69vert
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I've had four bugs, or at least pieces of four bugs.
#1 A 65 my dad bought for $500.00 back in the early 80's with the plan to tow it behind his RV. Put four retreads on it and drove it 200 miles back to where I was stationed in the Navy.
#2 A 69 'vert which is my current beetle, at least most of it. Drove it 20 miles home on the freeway. 7 months later I found out about the convertible support rails, and the absence of them on my car. Which explains #4, but first....
#3 A 74 SuperHerbie that I got free (?) from the VW dealer when I bought the wife a new NewBeetle (Beetle-wanna-be) 'vert in 2008. Drove it home 15 freeway miles with one-pump brakes, unlatched trunk lid (found that after I got home), loose steering, windows that wouldn't roll up, and bad rocker arms. Kept the engine, trans, SCAT ProCar seats and one headlight bucket and sold it for $250.00
#4 A 68 'vert with no fenders, windshield, interior, bad engine, etc. A parts car who donated it's body to my 69. Hooked the towbar to it, stuck on the magnetic lights, and towed it home 50 miles. Removed what I needed and traded it for other parts I needed.
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Starr1969
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:39 am Post subject: |
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74, drove home...all of 2 miles.
69, drove home 75 miles.
66, pushed around block. 
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19super73
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:48 am Post subject: |
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'73 Super-drove home
'75 Super-drove home
'75 110-trailer
'73 412-trailer
'71 Doka-trailer
all other parts cars-trailer
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thechief86
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:57 am Post subject: |
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first one: 74 super with no floorpans but a good running, but super leaky motor.
traded a gutted, motorless toyota 4runner for it. i had to tow the 4runner from nashville to memphis with a towbar, then borrow a dolly from a friend in jackson. i drove the super from memphis to jackson(losing 2 quarts of oil) while my buddy followed in the jeep... once in jackson we put the super on the dolly and drug it on to nashville(murfreesboro)
i drove the car for a month, then sold it to buy a non-running, no interior, sanded down to bare metal in places standard that didn't have any major rust anywhere.
the standard: i put a battery in, and got it to run on 2 cylinders. i aired up the tires and stuck a 5 gallon bucket in it(to sit on), then drove it about a mile home. then drove for 2 more weeks before i figured out that the valve adjustment was the reason it wasn't running well...now it's running pretty good, and has most of the interior stuff donated from other cars(no carpet yet). i've been driving it daily ever since.
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zadieman
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my 72 I drove home smoking the crap out of the clutch, at every stop I had to rev the hell out of it and ease the clutch out super slow to keep it from staling..
The good story was my 74 it belonged to A crack head that hung around my job,, he was bumming money one day, so I asked him were his bug was(I hadn't seen the car in like A month or two)? he asked why? told him ill give you $25 for it,, and he said he would take $50. Ok you got the title?
gave him the cash, called A friend to go with to pick it up.. car was in the geto at A dive apartment,, he meets me with another friend and we go to git the car,,,,,, git there and its sitting on 4 flat tires(someone had cut) the front seats are sitting on the side with A ice-chest between them, and there are people sleeping in it I had to knock on the window like I was the cops! and tell two homeless guys that I was there to take there house after thy got all there stuff gathered up and got out, we hocked up the tow strap, my one friend said he wonted to drive the bug (yuck!!) ok its all you man!! towed it about A mile to A friend's house that bug was back there fish tailing all over the road!! I could see him back there looking like A ghost, with wight knuckles got to friend's house he jumped out and said it was the scariest thing he had ever dun in his life!!!! all I could do was LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Should have made a video!!!! |
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green73
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Drove it three hours home. It had been sitting about a year the tires were flat and it had an inch of dust covering the whole thing lol made no problem except for a couple skiding stopes. The back brakes weren't working and the front right was pretty weak 
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Drove both 15 minutes home; this was in the 1970s, and I'm second owner of each, so both were in pretty decent condition.
The 1970 sedan needed the radio tune control wire fixed and the passenger door lubed (sounded like Herman Munster's).
The 1971 Convertible needed new MacPherson struts (according to the owner). He had purchased them and a strut compressor from JC Whitney, so price was $1300 without those, $1340 with them. So I got them and installed those, still on the convertible. I threw the compressor tool away, thought it was too dangerous, had no safety clips.
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1975 - bought in '96 or '97 drove it for about 4 years(right after a transmission swap, previous one jumped out of fourth), until the engine started pissing oil and now its getting the attention it deserved when we parked it in '99
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I drove mine. I got a few miles from the previous owner when the heater hose running to the oil cooler in front of the shroud burst. Had to fix that. Then a few miles later my generator light came on. Having been out of the scene for many years and not realizing the significance I drove on, thinking "Great. I gotta buy a generator, too." my wife was behind me, though, and started flashing her lights when she saw the smoke. It still made it home once we got a new belt. It didn't really matter. That motor was coming out anyway.
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