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Tim Donahoe
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 Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 5:39 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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I don’t have a cell phone. No need.
The wife and kid have theirs: the newest iPhones. Makes for a pricey Christmas, don’t you know. If I need a cell phone, I can borrow the wife’s, which I’ve done maybe twice in the past five years.
Now, if I ever drive the bug, cross country, I’ll bring along a cell phone  .
Tim
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Dwayne1m
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That red vert is awesome. |
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KKiley
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Location: Aruba, Jamica, nope, Kokomo
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 6:59 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Drove mine today back in Indiana. went thru the drive thru at McD's. I paid at one window, when I went to get my food at the next, every employee was waiting to llok out the window at my car.
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sb001
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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| KKiley wrote: |
| Drove mine today back in Indiana. went thru the drive thru at McD's. I paid at one window, when I went to get my food at the next, every employee was waiting to llok out the window at my car. |
Same thing happened to me today! Went to the McD's close to my house, the pickup window the guy giving me the food said he loved my car then told a couple other employees to check it out. 
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baxsie
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Wayne S. Johnson
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Tim Donahoe
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Location: Redding, CA
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| Posted: Sat May 26, 2018 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Steve, I don’t want to hear you say you never get compliments on your bug, anymore. We’ve got it in writing now .
Tim
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KKiley
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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I asked my sister if she wanted to take the car today. She just jumped right in with my nephew. She has been driving a clutch almost as long as I have. No worries about her skills...
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sb001
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 2:35 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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| Tim Donahoe wrote: |
Steve, I don’t want to hear you say you never get compliments on your bug, anymore. We’ve got it in writing now .
Tim |
They have been a bit more prevalent lately-- I'm not sure why. Yesterday a guy driving a Honda in front of me reached out the window and gave me a thumbs up.
Then at the drive thru, the lady at the window goes "Why, that's one of them old timey volkswagens!" 
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vamram 
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 2:53 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Drove the '72 and the '74 to the Bug Out in VA today. Here's wifey Anita w/Ginger in the '74.
And....Wait for it...SOLD SOLD SOLD the '72!!!
Happy new owner driving it away from the show.
Definitely a bittersweet moment after 5+ years.  Now to hunt for the next project.
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Buggeee
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60ragtop
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2018 6:54 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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drove the 70 to VWOTG show in Denver a few weeks back since I sold the 60 which had made that trip for 13 years. 1000 mile round trip. Now it is the wife's daily driver, she was happy to get it back
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I've restored a large number too, but I don't toot my horn quite as loud.
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| maybe he just snapped cause his car sucked |
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vamram
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 5:27 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Part of what I see everyday, on the way home from work yesterday.
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Give peace a chance - Stop Russian-Soviet Aggression!!
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Zundfolge1432
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Took a little ride up the the traveling Vietnam veterans memorial wall. 58,000 names there. Once you see it all layed out you realize the magnitude.
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Tim Donahoe
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Took the wife to Subway in the Bug (she rarely gets in it). The day is in the low seventies (Fahrenheit). In a few days, we’ll be up to 104 F, so today was a good opportunity to drive the bug without turning on the air-conditioning (opening the wings, I mean).
Tim
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sb001
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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| vamram wrote: |
Part of what I see everyday, on the way home from work yesterday.
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The cloud cover? Or the concrete barrier?
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mark tucker
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 3:45 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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| almost every day....some days it gives a a day off. |
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Zundfolge1432
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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| mark tucker wrote: |
| almost every day....some days it gives a a day off. |
Picture or it didn’t happen. |
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Zundfolge1432
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:13 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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Running around yesterday on backroads near home and found this. He was already dead when I got there. Don’t know what he is other than a big snake, do you?
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Cusser
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 6:51 am Post subject: Re: Who drove their bug today? |
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I drove my VW twice on Sunday, just local.
This is why we need to make sure that our VWs start readily !!!
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