Who drove their bug today?

[Lost69Convertible]

Zundfolge - shouldn't you have a big Coca Cola cooler strapped on that roof rack?
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1956 Beetle Ragtop: My Father's car
1969 Beetle Convertible: My first car. I loved it, I lost it, and I never got over it.
1979 Super Beetle Convertible

[Cusser]

[unclewede]

It was iconic, to say the least. Heading north on the 101, elbow out the window, Jersey Mike's on the seat beside me (OK, not so much Cali iconic) as a big red ball sank behind some palm trees, 72 degrees with a light breeze.

[67rustavenger]

The 58-67 forum doesn't have "Who drove their bug today" thread.

But I fired my 67 up last evening and took it for a short drive to get this once a year pic of the cherry blossoms, before they disappear once again.

The engine ran like total crap. It keeps getting the #1 idle jet clogged.
Clean the jet. Clog. Clean the jet, Clog, and on and on.......

That whole engine setup is about to get changed out for something I have had on the stand for the entire pandemic season.
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Cheap parts are gonna disappoint you.
Buy Once, Cry Once!

There's never enough time to do it right the first time. But there's always enough time to do it thrice.
GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo!

[Cusser]

1971 Convertible. With the top down. And we may take it to dinner tonight, unless we just walk to the corner.
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1970 VW (owned since 1972) and 1971 VW Convertible (owned since 1976), second owner of each. The '71 now has the 1835 engine, swapped from the '70. Second owner of each. 1988 Mazda B2200 truck, 1998 Frontier, 2014 Yukon, 2004 Frontier King Cab. All manual transmission except for the Yukon. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335294 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335297

[Lost69Convertible]

I took my first 2021 Beetle drive today. It was 55 degrees so I put the top down.

The previous owner put black sun visors on the car and they were in bad shape. All the late 70s convertibles came with white visors. I put new visors on the car this Winter in the original stock color. Also put on a set of white wall tires.

The PO also painted the base of the rear view mirror black. At some point, I want to strip the black off without damaging the original plastic underneath.

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1956 Beetle Ragtop: My Father's car
1969 Beetle Convertible: My first car. I loved it, I lost it, and I never got over it.
1979 Super Beetle Convertible

[challomoner]

Had some glorious weather here over the long Easter weekend so was out and about enjoying the sunshine.

[Snoopy1971]

Nice day out, so drove it to work today.

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1968 Bug

[Lemons 4 Gigi]

To soccer practice....

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1971 Super Convertible "Gigi", Lemon Yellow (Factory Zitronengelb L-11E)
1970 Dodge Challenger R/T "Jezzy", 440, 4-spd, pLuM cRaZy!
A couple of Jeeps..

[unclewede]

Cruised over to BevMo after work, picked up a bottle of Clase Azul for my nephew's birthday this weekend. Since I knew the 101 was going to be packed, I took more twisty surface streets. It's not a sports car, but it is still so fun to drive now that I can reliably downshift

[alex857]

Took it for a spin to Esslingen (southern Germany)

[Cusser]

Last night, drove the Convertible about 10 miles to the restaurant. And back.
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1970 VW (owned since 1972) and 1971 VW Convertible (owned since 1976), second owner of each. The '71 now has the 1835 engine, swapped from the '70. Second owner of each. 1988 Mazda B2200 truck, 1998 Frontier, 2014 Yukon, 2004 Frontier King Cab. All manual transmission except for the Yukon. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335294 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335297

[Snoopy1971]

A friend was hanging out at a local German bar/restaurant, so took it there to chit chat with her for a bit ... somehow got a parking spot right in front of the door

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1968 Bug

[Cusser]

I drove my 1971 convertible, topless !
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1970 VW (owned since 1972) and 1971 VW Convertible (owned since 1976), second owner of each. The '71 now has the 1835 engine, swapped from the '70. Second owner of each. 1988 Mazda B2200 truck, 1998 Frontier, 2014 Yukon, 2004 Frontier King Cab. All manual transmission except for the Yukon. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335294 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=335297

[Zundfolge1432]

[vamram]

Yesterday cruised the Potomac along the Maryland side of the river then around the beltway. I usually keep highway speeds at 65 but this guy loves 70. 75 is tempting too...

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'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!!

[Maddel]

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[offtherailz1]

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“ My worry is, that if I die suddenly, my wife will sell everything VW for what she thinks I paid for it.”

Cuppa tea man, living in a latte world.

1973 1303, one previous owner, my Dad
1975 1303, Fourth owner, mum 1975 to 2014, me from 2017
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=711269&highlight=
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=740901

[Zundfolge1432]

It’s been right at one month since I drove the beast. It fired off quickly and ran great so I set out for about a 30 mile trip to get all the juices flowing. It was about 57 degrees and overcast, VWs run best for me on days like this. I put it up on the road at about 70mph. This car now has about 10k miles on the engine hard miles running flat out at speeds above 80. Best of all it’s just built out of parts I already had.

[waller]

I drove mine today!

1978 'Vert Reef Blue. Dreamy!