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vamram 
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 Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2025 5:41 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Intended to drive my '74 to work today. Got 2 miles from the house and it died. More on that in a separate thread.
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to put moral chains upon their own appetites. -Edmund Burke
'74 Super 9/16 - present, in refurb process.
'73 Super - 6/18 - Present - Daily Driver!
'75 Super Le Grande...we hardly knew ye. Sold 2025 for peanuts.
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alex857
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2025 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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I visited the Beetle Meeting in Tossa de Mar, organized by the Amics del Volkswagen de Catalunya https://www.avwc.org/edatvw.php at the Costa Brava at the Mediterranean Sea. It was a great event with araound 300 cars and I even gained the prize for the longest journey (around 3000km/1900 miles).
On the journey there and back, I visited impressive historic sites in France like Beaune and Avignon (here the famous Pont d´Avignon):
Vienne or Carcassonne:
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Rome
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2025 4:33 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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| ^ Congratulations on your long distance award, and an obviously fantastic and scenic trip! 1900 miles! That's more than from New York City to Denver, Colorado one-way; or from NYC to St. Louis, Missouri and back! |
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vamram
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2025 4:24 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Late night monuments and memorials solo cruise! I'm parked on the street to the right. 
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"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition
to put moral chains upon their own appetites. -Edmund Burke
'74 Super 9/16 - present, in refurb process.
'73 Super - 6/18 - Present - Daily Driver!
'75 Super Le Grande...we hardly knew ye. Sold 2025 for peanuts.
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Save the Supers!! |
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a8ked
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2025 12:38 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Installed a new right rear lower engine tin, adjusted the rear brakes and changed the oil.
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Cusser
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2025 8:30 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Installed a new right rear lower engine tin....
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I wasn't aware that those plates were available new ! Back about 8 years ago when I rebuilt my 1971 original engine (I'd had it since 1976), I strangely found that one tin piece missing, so I made one.
Since then I found used sled tins at a VW swap meet and purchased them, but have not installed them.
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69CalLookBeetle
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 3:54 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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For the first time in almost 20 years, I just drove my 69.
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Rome
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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| For the first time in almost 20 years, I just drove my 69. |
Excellent! Proof of your determination. Why was it undriven for so long? Prolonged mechanical work, "life priorities", lull in interest, etc? |
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69CalLookBeetle
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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| Rome wrote: |
| Excellent! Proof of your determination. Why was it undriven for so long? Prolonged mechanical work, "life priorities", lull in interest, etc? |
I was going to write up a long explanation, but basically life happened, just never had the time, space, and money at the same time. So, I finally decided "now is the time". However, I still don't have a lot of time, so I took it down to a VW shop and just told them to rebuild or replace everything needed to get it back on the road. Of course then I just decided to get everything replaced.
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beetle08
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2025 10:34 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Seattle to Forest Grove.
Blower and wipers worked like a charm.
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67rustavenger
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2025 11:36 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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| beetle08 wrote: |
Seattle to Forest Grove.
Blower and wipers worked like a charm. |
That's a long windy drive tor a craft beer. 
Glad to see you made it with no issues though. 
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radstude
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2025 6:28 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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| beetle08 wrote: |
Seattle to Forest Grove.
Blower and wipers worked like a charm. |
Nice looking Super!
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beetle08
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:15 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Thank you! Car drove like a champ with zero issues other than storm rain and wind trying to blow me off the road here and there.
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a8ked
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 5:17 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Took a drive to the marina to check on our boat. It was nice to have a dry day; rain is expected for the next several days. |
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radstude
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 11:16 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Took a drive to the marina to check on our boat. It was nice to have a dry day; rain is expected for the next several days. |
Nice looking bug!
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stagewex
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 7:39 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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I drive my bug every day to the train station so no biggie. But definitely Fall. |
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vamram
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 1:52 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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112 miles round trip to the Old Stein Inn for an Air-Raid meetup. Great cars, weather and food! Oh and beer too.
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"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition
to put moral chains upon their own appetites. -Edmund Burke
'74 Super 9/16 - present, in refurb process.
'73 Super - 6/18 - Present - Daily Driver!
'75 Super Le Grande...we hardly knew ye. Sold 2025 for peanuts.
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Cusser
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alex857
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:56 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Last Saturday, our 1974 Super Beetle Fall Tour through the Upper Danube Valley:
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Cusser
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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I drove my 1971 Beetle Convertible yesterday, and then again today; topless of course !
We took our 2014 Yukon Denali to the shop to get its transmission, transfer case, and front and rear differentials serviced. Without a lift, and the different fluids/pumps required, too much for me. $331 fluids and materials, $255 labor, pretty much what I expected. We bought this 3 years ago with 76K miles and "in writing" that such had been changed just before we bought it, but now at 118K miles (some of that towing a horse), just makes sense to have that done. So we drove the VW over to pick it up.
I'd recently done oil change and front and rear brakes on it myself.
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