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JollieOllie
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 Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 8:58 am Post subject: Working Beetles |
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The Bus forum has a successful Working Trucks thread. How about one for Working Beetles?  Here is mine carrying 4 - 50 liter lawn soil bags in the front and a couple behind the front seats.
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67conv
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 10:07 am Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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JollieOllie
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 3:26 pm Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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Great use of a convertible! |
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zerotofifty
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 4:58 pm Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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| JollieOllie wrote: |
The Bus forum has a successful Working Trucks thread. How about one for Working Beetles? Here is mine carrying 4 - 50 liter lawn soil bags in the front and a couple behind the front seats.
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Holly smolly, that looks like my Bug, Turkis green, but you got white walls, very sharp.
Id remove the passenger seat to haul welding tanks in mine.
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shano63 
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 3:33 pm Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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Moving to my first apt in 1995. Same car I have now
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zerotofifty
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 6:25 pm Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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| shano63 wrote: |
Moving to my first apt in 1995. Same car I have now
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Very cool Cherokee XJ also.
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shano63
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 5:31 am Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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We all had CJs back then and we busted on him for buying that because it was too " plush".
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tasb
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 6:59 am Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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I don't have pics but, my stepdad used his Beetle like it was a Kombi. He was an industrial chemist. He would remove the passenger front seat and the space was just big enough that a 55 gallon drum would fit. It was loaded and unloaded with a fork lift! 
When we moved him into our home he strapped a pool table like top to the roof and moved his stuff in that manner. Back seat was stuffed too with one or two kids crammed into the passenger front seat.
They weren't collector cars just yet!
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sportin-wood
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 8:22 am Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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Was that for weed control? 
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JollieOllie
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 10:40 am Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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Now that's a working Beetle!
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JollieOllie
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 10:46 am Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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| zerotofifty wrote: |
| JollieOllie wrote: |
The Bus forum has a successful Working Trucks thread. How about one for Working Beetles? Here is mine carrying 4 - 50 liter lawn soil bags in the front and a couple behind the front seats.
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Holly smolly, that looks like my Bug, Turkis green, but you got white walls, very sharp.
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Thanks. I can only see partial photos of your car. Care to share or point me in the right direction to find photos of your Beetle? |
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far rider
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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shano63
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 11:13 am Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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I don't know if this really counts as working, but the car sure did. We got married on the cape of cod 12 years ago Sunday. 600 plus miles, 2 coolers plus all of our other luggage, 40 horses and rte 84 all in a long weekend wasn't exactly an easy ride.
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Cusser
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 11:58 am Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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| sportin-wood wrote: |
Was that for weed control? |
Well, it does remove most weeds from Mrs. Cusser's horse arena, but the drag is primarily to make the footing better in the area for Mrs. Cusser's horse. Mrs. Cusser likes excitement between her legs.
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sportin-wood
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 12:10 pm Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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| Cusser wrote: |
| Mrs. Cusser likes excitement between her legs. |
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zerotofifty
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 1:39 pm Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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Some decades ago my city had a Bug based " sand rail" outfitted to spray paint the strips on the roads. It used to be parked in the city road maintenance lot. Dam, I wish I had a photo of it. It had tanks for the paint, and spray nozzles on booms, and what appeared to be a compressor or pump.
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JollieOllie
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 2:27 pm Post subject: Taxi |
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I guess this is a working Beetle, though I guess someone can find an actual photo of a sixties Beetle.
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calvinater
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 7:43 am Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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A true Vermonter there, "Make do ,or do withought"
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sportin-wood
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Working Beetles |
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From the gallery:
I know - NOT a beetle...
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