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Shonandb Samba Member

Joined: January 12, 2019 Posts: 1750 Location: Vancouver, BC
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:57 am Post subject: Re: What is your fondest memory in your Vw |
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This would have to be a Road Trip North up to Northern BC and the Yukon just after the Covid restrictions were lifted.
From my 76 Westy thread.
Took a week and headed up North camping on a 5000 km (3000 mile) tour of Northern BC and part of the Yukon via the Alaskan Highway with my wife and teenage daughter and one of her friends. My daughter's friend's parents joined us on the trip in their SUV so we got some cool video as well but basically 4 of us in the Bus for 8 days.
Bus ran flawlessly and we averaged about 9 kms per litre (21 miles per gallon) throughout the trip with as low as 8 kms per litre in the mountains and a high of 10 kms per litre on the flats. Longest day driven was about 9 hours from Liard River Hotsprings to Dawson Creek. Our windshield has a few battle scars from rocks thrown up from large trucks but other than that, no issues.
Saw a lot of black bears, moose, caribou, deer, mountain goats/sheep, elk, bison, and even porcupines and had cool rainy weather in Prince Rupert (12 C 53 F) to hot desert conditions between Cache Creek and Yale on Hwy #1 where it hit 38 C (100 F).
Solar shower worked well and made the trip really comfortable. The Hotsprings were fantastic and the scenery was spectacular and changed significantly as we drove through the various regions.
* A nice bonus was having freezies straight out of the freezer in our old Dometic fridge when it was hot! Love that fridge as it kept the beer nice and cold too.
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76 Westy with a 2.5L Subaru SOHC + Vanagon (010) Automatic Transaxle
Build & Trip Thread: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=758760
Previous 1973 Panel Bus:
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vwcanuck Samba Member

Joined: September 27, 2012 Posts: 155 Location: Canada
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:11 pm Post subject: Re: What is your fondest memory in your Vw |
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Road trip across Canada and back this past summer. It was truly an epic adventure. |
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mark tucker Samba Member

Joined: April 08, 2009 Posts: 23950 Location: SHALIMAR ,FLORIDA
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:19 am Post subject: Re: What is your fondest memory in your Vw |
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I have oh so many of them...but the first was about 4 days after finishing painting entire car and having all the new fenders& stuff on it. I walked out of the shop and the wife was sitting on the hood ( fiber glass hood) each foot on the bumper......just sitting there.with a smile on her face...and thats all. dam those baja hood's can take a lot. I wish I could of kept it, but I drive my car. no trailer queens.and Im not one to let a car sit.and paying for insurance on 2 cars that get used or not just aint my idea of good cents. when my 356 is done I may revize that thinking... but dam I had some good times and lots of memerys in the 17~ 18 years that I had that bug. and yes it was 3x as quick as my current bigger motored GM roadster....witch made it way harder to let go. |
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688GUY Samba Member
Joined: November 23, 2012 Posts: 50 Location: Fort Payne, AL
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: What is your fondest memory in your Vw |
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Man, there are so many VW memories, but one of my favorites was going to the Rose Parade, New Year's Eve 1974. It was the first time my GF and present wife spent the night together. It wasn't our "first time", but it was the first time we didn't have to listen for parents coming home and interupting us. The night was awesome, all the cars cruising that night, '55 Chevys, Hemi Mopars, literally everything! We had a spot where we opened the hatch and it was looking out on Colorado Blvd. We got a pizza and watched Olivia Newton John on the little 13" black and white TV that plugged into the cigarette lighter. This picture was taken the day after we were married in July of '75. I graduated Sub School on 7-2, flew to Vegas, got there after midnight and got married on 7-3, then drove the Westy back to CA. Funny thing is, we only got married 'cause it payed 114 bucks extra and here we are 45 years later, me still screwing around with VW's and her still rolling her eyes at me, LOL!
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Fish Samba Member

Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 5805 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 5:25 pm Post subject: Re: What is your fondest memory in your Vw |
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My first VW was in 1978. I've owed and driven more Ghia's, bug's and buses than I want to try to list right now. I've had many great memories in all of them. I went VW less in 2012 for about five years. Last year I got a new bus to make more memories in.
No way could I pick one. _________________ Prosit!
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Zundfolge1432  Samba Member
Joined: June 13, 2004 Posts: 12542
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: What is your fondest memory in your Vw |
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Driving my 73 deluxe type 1 cross country, I was 19 and it was 1979 with not a care in the world. Day two I drove all day from Houston to El Paso flat out 75miles an hour sometimes over 80, nobody said I couldn’t. The car never missed a beat as I rolled into Long Beach California, made it in 4 days from Pensacola Florida. Today all these years later I’ve got a 74 but it’s yellow instead of Marina Blue but every time I drive it I’m transported back to that time in 1979 and I remember what it was like to on the road by myself. All I had back then was a Pioneer Supertuner with Jensen Triaxle speakers and an assortment of 8 track tapes.  |
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ZENVWDRIVER Samba Member

Joined: November 07, 2008 Posts: 3340 Location: N.E. Oklahoma
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:01 am Post subject: Re: What is your fondest memory in your Vw |
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... doing the longest all-night Leadfoot ralyee in the USA, at the time - mid 1960s in my dad's new red 1965 Karmann Ghia convertible.
Then me doing the Leadfoot in my 1965 bug, a few years later... that year, we finished, even though, early on, we hit a pole, on a dark curve at 2 AM
_________________ 5/50, pastel green 11G - SOLD
8/50, gray 11A Beetle
6/52, pastel green 11C - SOLD
11/4/52, black Zwitter - SOLD to my little bro.
1954 Porsche, pre A, with VW 36 horse- SOLD
1/54, black 11C Beetle - TRADED
2/55 Iceland green Beetle, on a 1965 pan
3/55 113 Beetle, stratos silver
1955 Messerschmitt KR175 - SOLD, sadly
1960 single cab
1962 SO33, with SO 42 interior
9/63 Pacific blue, Ghia
'87 Toyota MR2
'02 WestFORDia E-150, GAVE TO OUR SON
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VW_Jimbo  Samba Member

Joined: May 22, 2016 Posts: 10711 Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 5:46 pm Post subject: Re: What is your fondest memory in your Vw |
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Fondest memory was back in 1984, skating back home, on my skate board down Central Ave in Montclair, CA, coming back from Pipeline Skate Park. We were just South of Mission Blvd, there was a large corn field on the right hand (west) side of the street. The farmers had cut down part of the field and stopped just short of an old car. Me being almost 14 (legal driving age was 18 at the time, 16 to get a permit) at the time, recognized it as an old Bug. Walked up to the car, pushing the long corn stocks out of the way. Making my way around the car, I could see it had an Oval window, it had Semaphores, it had most of the interior, but it all was shot. It was a big project (did not realize that at the time).
I skated home as quickly as I could and begged my Dad to go back so we could look at the car. He agreed to go. Walked up to the door and asked about the car. The owner stated it was For Sale for $1200 and that it ran when it was parked there several months ago. They said to come by the next day if I was serious and that they would start it.
My father and I drove back over there the next day, around 6 PM. It had been pushed onto the driveway. Owner meet us by the car. They got in and started it up. I agreed to purchase it and handed over $1200.00. Again, I was 13, never had a car or a project like this. My mother screamed at my father for several hours.
Anyways, my father went and picked up my mother, so that she could drive the truck back to the house. Me and my father sat in the car. He started it up and we drove off towards our home, about 8 miles away. I pulled it into the garage from the driveway, and watched my mothers face. She had the look of "the Scream" by Van Gogh!
Here are some restored photos from an old roll of film found in the bottom of a box from my childhood.
The day it drove into the garage. (That's a 73 Super Beetle in the background. The family car!)
3 years later, through a lot of body work completed at my Dads cabinet shop.
Me and my little sister messing around by the Bug! She was pissing me off that day!
Me and the old man pushing it back indoors.
_________________ Jimbo
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daven Samba Member
Joined: January 13, 2009 Posts: 356 Location: Dayton OH
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:15 pm Post subject: Re: What is your fondest memory in your Vw |
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No room for activities? Wrong - just throw the passenger seat out and there is plenty of room. Just don't park in the middle of a creek - the seat gets wet. Patti had to sit on the wet spot for the way back to her dad's place.
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63 vwnotch Samba Member
Joined: December 31, 2002 Posts: 764 Location: Riverside,CA Econo Motors
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 4:51 am Post subject: Re: What is your fondest memory in your Vw |
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Driving my then 3yo daughter around in my newly restored bus... man she loved that thing, and I enjoy the memories... thing that sucks most is all the pics I had of her in it were stored on Epson site back then and now the site shut down and stole my pics....
would love to have that bus now but I fear it's in Japan, haven't seen nor heard hide or hair of it........... _________________ WANTED: 67 earlier Type 3 seats, Z rests |
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bugman1955 Samba Member
Joined: July 05, 2004 Posts: 171 Location: Montreal, Canada
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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Driving to work in my '72 Bug in minus 30C Winter weather with no heat. |
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Damian Gomez Samba Member
Joined: September 17, 2013 Posts: 246 Location: Turlock Ca.
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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vugbug68 wrote: |
maximan1 wrote: |
gettin laid in the back. |
damn bugs are too small for this activity haha |
oh youd be surprised... and im 5'11 _________________ 63' beetle, stock 1200cc, 12v, daily driver but a project |
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drs1023 Samba Member
Joined: October 20, 2011 Posts: 1682 Location: Georgia, USA
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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:45 am Post subject: |
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I currently own VW # 58 since the late 60's, so I don't have attachment stories for them all. Many were picked up at auction, rebuilt and sold for a few bucks profit.
But . . . sex in my '63 convertible definitely stands out!!! |
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79SuperVert Samba Member

Joined: May 31, 2002 Posts: 9758 Location: Elizabeth, NJ & La Isla Del Encanto
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:11 am Post subject: |
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Maybe not my fondest, but:
Coming down a mile long hill in Connecticut in my Beetle trying not to overrev the engine or overheat the brakes, flying into a traffic circle at the bottom, skidding 3/4 of the way around the circle while other cars stopped, and going on my way still alive, upright, and not having soiled myself. _________________ Central Jersey VW Society
Wanted: Art Collins VW (Savannah, Georgia) items - license plate surrounds and other items. Also ivory "AM", "FM" and "SW" buttons for a US Blaupunkt Frankfurt. |
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Stuartzickefoose Samba Post Whore

Joined: February 07, 2008 Posts: 10350 Location: SoCal for now...
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2014 7:52 am Post subject: |
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this past new years, i wen to a party in the 78 westy, and a really long time friend and i decided to go camping afterwards, so at about 1230am, she grabbed a bunch of blankets, and the two of us took off for the mountians about a hour away. found a cliff where someone had left a fire burning, so we added some wood we found nearby, and built up the fire, and then spent the night up on the cliff, with a view of the valley. at this point, the two of use are getting a lot closer, and hopefully someday ill marry her....someday.
_________________ Stuart Zickefoose
2011 Jetta Sportwagen TDi 6 speed manual
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flat4powerhouse Samba Member
Joined: May 18, 2007 Posts: 27 Location: rapid city sd
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:50 am Post subject: |
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my first car i bought a 72 super beetle, picked up my girlfriend in it and she loved it (later i married her). The car later met her death,some old lady pulled out infront of me. A 72 bug vs a lincon need less to say i didnt win _________________ because i live in a bus down by the river
78 bay window truck
68 baja bug |
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vponder Samba Member
Joined: August 17, 2013 Posts: 289 Location: Georgia
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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My wife's dad had a couple of bugs growing up, she told me her and her sisters would have to get out in their dress's and push it off while her dad poped to clutch to get it started. This was on snowy days in up state NY. He gave me an old vw repair manual I need to find it . it looked to be a first addition if I remember right , it was a small book. |
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Stuartzickefoose Samba Post Whore

Joined: February 07, 2008 Posts: 10350 Location: SoCal for now...
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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KTPhil wrote: |
vugbug68 wrote: |
maximan1 wrote: |
gettin laid in the back. |
damn bugs are too small for this activity haha |
That's why the factory installed ankle straps in the B-pillars. |
i thought there were more like the saddle style straps, like where you put your feet in...not so much the ankles.. _________________ Stuart Zickefoose
2011 Jetta Sportwagen TDi 6 speed manual
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KTPhil  Samba Member

Joined: April 06, 2006 Posts: 35318 Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 10:51 am Post subject: |
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vugbug68 wrote: |
maximan1 wrote: |
gettin laid in the back. |
damn bugs are too small for this activity haha |
That's why the factory installed ankle straps in the B-pillars. |
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Manfred58sc Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2009 Posts: 3456
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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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Camping with my old girlfriend (who was way,way too pretty for the likes of me) who was intrigued by my 64 Kombi with homemade camper interior. We were stuck on a Colorado forest service road at 2am, 2 hours of laughing,working,cussing,loving...amazing connection to everything. Sold the bus to pay for a semester of college, what was I thinking. _________________ Fat chick owner/operator |
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