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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:10 am    Post subject: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

To my Beetle, 50 years old today.

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Summer 1974
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:02 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

Congratulations!
What did you buy for it? Wink

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:47 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:33 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

Very nice and how rare in throwaway society someone would keep it that long😂
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:45 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

when was the last time you drove it and how far?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:10 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

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when was the last time you drove it and how far?
2019 for 40 miles, right after I reinstalled the IDAs after being gone through by Blackline.

I've lost that lovin' feeling.

I think this is the year I either start driving it or sell it.

It's been sitting with the rocker arms removed and the tank drained.

If someone drops a load of cash at my feet, it might make the decision for me.

Might just buy a new bicycle with the cash, but the old one has 42,000 miles on it and works like new.

BTW, how many years before it can be called a Barn Find? Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:16 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

I know you've had your 1974 since brand new, and I think if you sold it that you'd regret it big time.

And why I still have the running 1970 VW I bought in late 1972 - too much sentimental value, and I don't need the money that selling it would bring. And I couldn't bear to have some teenager Baja Bug it !!!!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:32 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

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I know you've had your 1974 since brand new, and I think if you sold it that you'd regret it big time.

Nah...

Lost interest in going to car shows or local cruise nights. Too many guys with gold chains driving new Corvettes and Chargers. Very few that have dirty hands.

I'd probably pickup a late model beater, build a new engine for it, make it reliable and park it on the street so I can drive it whenever i feel like it. The 74 is too nice to drive it to run errands and to the local pizza place, but a beater is just that. Actually i'd like to get a 50's pickup with a straight 6. Something solid but no nice. I'd put in a 4 speed, vintage ac and wire it for 12v... again a beater.

Owning a nice car is a curse.. if you want to keep it nice.

I learned that after my 2001 Civic dropped dead and I decided to buy a new car... 18 months later it was totaled when hit from behind by a municipal garbage truck. I replaced it with a 2018, it's been side swiped 3 times, the last when it was parked in front of my house by a hit-n-run.... $8900 to fix and all cosmetic. I was tempted to keep the money and just put a new driver's side mirror on. Owning a beater means you can drive it anywhere, not care if it gets scratched or dented and no one will steal it.

Not a daily driver anymore... it was at one time.

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Condition of the body on it's way to the body shop.

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25 years of Long Island sea air, snow and road salt took its toll. It was either junk it or fix it.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

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Congratulations!
What did you buy for it? Wink

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

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raygreenwood wrote:
Congratulations!
What did you buy for it? Wink

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Driving

To get to work.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

Glenn wrote:
Abscate wrote:
raygreenwood wrote:
Congratulations!
What did you buy for it? Wink

Ray


Driving

To get to work.


My FIL had a saying and he was a lifelong mechanic.

“If you have something you are not using or sure about you hang onto it for 7 years. If at the end of 7 years you aren’t sure then hang onto it for 7 more years.”
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:26 pm    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

Glenn wrote:
vwracerdave wrote:
when was the last time you drove it and how far?
2019 for 40 miles.....

I think this is the year I either start driving it or sell it.


I challenge you to drive it at least 40 miles by Easter.

I drove my Ghia a few days ago. I drove my Dune Buggy today. I raced my drag Buggy at the last race in Nov.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

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To my Beetle, 50 years old today.

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Very nice! Just 10 days ago my Toyota Tacoma turned 20 years old, I've owned it the whole time. You gotta drive it, at least a little. My Taco has 70,800 miles on it. Funny, I've considered selling my pickup too, but NOT the beach buggy I picked it up as a basket case in 1991. Dancing
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

Glenn wrote:

Owning a nice car is a curse.. if you want to keep it nice.


Just trailer it over to Brooklyn (Williamsburg) and have Jesse make a slip cover for it. It’s very popular with my aunts friends. Easy clean up and safe from the elements Wink Laughing

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Or just drive the F*€k out of it and enjoy the fruits of your labor. You can’t take it with you. That beetle is a stone cold looker. Bad ass!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:53 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

Zundfolge1432 wrote:
Glenn wrote:
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raygreenwood wrote:
Congratulations!
What did you buy for it? Wink

Ray


Driving

To get to work.




Rays question was 'what did you buy for it?' not 'what did you buy it for?' in other words what present did you give the car? I can only assume folks have been 'raising a celebratory glass'...or two Think
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:09 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

finster wrote:
Zundfolge1432 wrote:
Glenn wrote:
Abscate wrote:
raygreenwood wrote:
Congratulations!
What did you buy for it? Wink

Ray


Driving

To get to work.




Rays question was 'what did you buy for it?' not 'what did you buy it for?' in other words what present did you give the car? I can only assume folks have been 'raising a celebratory glass'...or two


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:51 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

drive more/ post less

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:07 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

s.e.charles wrote:
drive more/ post less

???

That's hilarious.

The question I ask is: Should I take the car out, drive it around for a few hours, with no place to go, and just burn $20 of gas or.... Ride the bike for a few hours and burn a few thousand calories.

For the past 11 years, the bike has won with 40,000 miles on the bike I bought in 2015.

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After 50 years... been there done that. It was my daily driver till 1999, been to hundreds of car shows. Have a SH!T load of trophies.

Maybe it's time to pass it on to someone who will drive it.

Any takers?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:39 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

Glenn wrote:
s.e.charles wrote:
drive more/ post less

???

That's hilarious.

The question I ask is: Should I take the car out, drive it around for a few hours, with no place to go, and just burn $20 of gas or.... Ride the bike for a few hours and burn a few thousand calories.

For the past 11 years, the bike has won with 40,000 miles on the bike I bought in 2015.

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After 50 years... been there done that. It was my daily driver till 1999, been to hundreds of car shows. Have a SH!T load of trophies.

Maybe it's time to pass it on to someone who will drive it.

Any takers?


Yes take the car out every so often and run it. I had a 74 VW in high school I was not the first owner it had about 6000 miles still under warranty, good because I beat the shit out of it. The few things I have left now from that time I hold dear. Even seemingly insignificant things like a seiko diver watch I bought while in military has sentimental value. I need to drive a VW now occasionally to smell it, to hear that noisy air cooled motor sing. Seriously hang on to the car and keep riding the bike
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:04 am    Post subject: Re: Happy Birthday Reply with quote

the solution...a pedal car!
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