Who drove their bug today?

[vamram]

[mg50]

Drove my orange super beetle to look at an orange Karmann Ghia for sale. Rusted out floor pan areas and troublesome transmission made me say no. But body and interior were not bad, including a no-hit nose.
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1971 Super Beetle & 1971 Karmann Ghia

engine rebuild: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=775424&highlight=

[Cusser]

[slayer61]

To Bug-O-Rama in Sacramento this past weekend. Both Saturday & Sunday. Early enough to beat the line & get a good parking spot.

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[vamram]

Cruise around the Hudson Valley hills, this one thru a stretch of Mill Street toward Mohegan.


Link

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Eventually, "we are what we pretend to be.’”
Give peace a chance - Stop Russian-Soviet Aggression!!

'74 Super 9/16 - present, in refurb process.
'73 Super - 6/18 - Present - Daily Driver!
'75 Super Le Grande...waiting it's turn in line behind '74.
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Save the Supers!!

[vamram]

Me again. Drove to Bucks County PA Saturday a.m., then Sunday a.m. bright and early to the June Bug Classic 2023 at the Maple Grove Raceway. Great show as far as cars, and I was able to pick up a few much needed original parts, including a NOS muffler for my '73, a replacement turn signal assembly, the bushing plate to fix the Hurst shifter on my '74, an owner's manual for my '75 Le Grande, and a few other little things. Oh, and there were I'm SURE over 300 ACVWs at this show, plus all of the H20 ones. And here's some proof!!

Following that, 185 miles back across Bear Mountain. This afternoon after work, 300 miles back home to No.VA.
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Eventually, "we are what we pretend to be.’”
Give peace a chance - Stop Russian-Soviet Aggression!!

'74 Super 9/16 - present, in refurb process.
'73 Super - 6/18 - Present - Daily Driver!
'75 Super Le Grande...waiting it's turn in line behind '74.
Click to view image
Save the Supers!!

[Big Bull Shooter]

After owning this bug for 5 years, I finally took it out of home range today to Valemount, BC, for their Valemount Days Show n Shine. It was a small turn out, but I had fun and saw some beautiful vehicles. I had the engine rebuilt this winter, and this was its first test, driving 250 kms @ 110kph through the mountains. I even blew by a few motor homes! This 68 Bronco was a nut and bolt, mild custom/resto - very well done.

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Where would this hobby be if no one shipped parts.
crukab
Feb. 11, 2021
Smokey says.... only you can prevent Bug fires!
zerotofifty
May 16, 2023

[Big Bull Shooter]

I may not drive the bug today, unless it warms up and melts the snow away.
Update: I drove it around back and into the garage. Trees are coming down all over the place, and there's a big weeping birch tree from the neighbours yard hovering over the bug.

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Where would this hobby be if no one shipped parts.
crukab
Feb. 11, 2021
Smokey says.... only you can prevent Bug fires!
zerotofifty
May 16, 2023

[MountainBeetle]

[EVfun]

[Big Bull Shooter]

I drove 150 km round trip to Hinton, Alberta yesterday to pick up a year of manufacture vintage plate for my bug, and stock up on some general supplies. The fellow that I bought the plate from told me about a nice old bug in the area. After a 20 minute search, I found it. I got out to check it out, and could hear voices coming from the garage. As I approached the garage, I could see a 71 Super and 64 convertible bug inside. I ended up meeting two great guys and chatted with them for at least half an hour. Another enthusiast saw the commotion and stopped by as well. Great to meet you Grant, Brent, and Wes! This is Grant's 60 or 66?

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Where would this hobby be if no one shipped parts.
crukab
Feb. 11, 2021
Smokey says.... only you can prevent Bug fires!
zerotofifty
May 16, 2023

[vamram]

Drove 300+ miles to Hudson Valley/Bear Mountain yesterday. It was a *hot* one for sure!


Link

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Eventually, "we are what we pretend to be.’”
Give peace a chance - Stop Russian-Soviet Aggression!!

'74 Super 9/16 - present, in refurb process.
'73 Super - 6/18 - Present - Daily Driver!
'75 Super Le Grande...waiting it's turn in line behind '74.
Click to view image
Save the Supers!!

[PuddleRainbow]

Bug trip ‘23.
If your a regular to this topic you may have seen selected pictures from ‘21 (NJ-Big Bend, TX) and ‘22 (NJ-Glacier, Yellowstone, Badlands NP’s). I got a new job so I could only take a week so I’m right now on final couple days of 9 day 4000mi+ NJ-Labrador via Quebec trip with the boy. Here are selected pics with no explanation and out of order. My takeaway this year is when Montana says it’s “big sky country” and Texas sez “everything’s bigger here,” Canada chuckles and says “bless your heart.”

Manac-5, got to go inside. Air actuated Ball valves as big as your garage control 300ft of head pressure to turbines

Manac-2, got tour saw 170,000 hp ac generator with 21ft rotor spin at 150mph to create 750,000v @ 60htz

No moose seen

Manac-2 on tour day.

Good chicken

Above ground gas Chuchill fall NL

Next to Accelor iron ore mine in Quebec so big that human mind can’t comprehend

242 miles from Goose Bay to next town over Cartwright NL. We prob have made it. Maybe. 3 miles out of town.

Cartwright

Lots of this. Not exaggerating probably over 200miles of gravel highway. Look up QC 389 and trans lab engineering marvels.

More dust

Many of these. Can haul @60+mph on most gravel. Better than 98.5% of Jersey paved rds.

Ferry in QC 138

Fun trip. No issues. Bugs are gravel beasts.





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[kpf]

[vamram]

[PuddleRainbow]

[mollymud]

Took my dog for a quick ride in the very early morning. AZ heat.

I just bought my Super Beetle last week. I'm trying to learn how this site works. I'm really struggling. I apoligize if I post incorrectly.

Do all pictures have to be 54 mb?

On the bottom left hand corner under Options; should the HTML be off or on?

I've reached out to some classified posts but I'm not getting a response...how do I know if the seller received my message?

Thanks for any assistance

[Rome]

Hello, mollymud! Welcome to theSamba and to current VW Beetle ownership. You have a very attractive Cabrio.

As to posting photos- when you attempt to add a photo, there's an explanation paragraph at lower left:
- Max. image size 8 (eight) Mb. Your "54" question is WAAAY too large.
- Max. pixel size length and height: 1600 each.
From my experience, the best picture format is jpeg.
After you hit the "submit" button, it can take a few seconds for the image and any text to appear. Don't be tempted to hit submit right away if you don't see a post change. If you do see a double-post, you can go back into your response in the thread, use the "edit" button at upper right, then select the "delete" button.

I work only from a home computer and never from a cellphone for adding photos or Samba responses. You can see the print in your response much clearer, and first check your response in "preview" to check for misspellings, etc before you submit. But so many of the younger generation (I'm over 60) are more comfortable working with their cell phones for this. Though it's annoying to see screen shots here that are obviously uploaded from phones where there is a large black section above and below the photos, due to the photos being taken in "portrait" mode and not filling the screen.

You may be interested in a Forum thread that fits your photo theme above: Dogs and VWs... https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=187676&highlight=

[radstude]

[heimlich]

If you are taking photos directly from your camera you may need to reduce those in size first before you load them to TheSamba. Then you can load them.