My first car was a VW Super Beetle (71 if anybody cares.) I loved that car. I got it 80k miles, put another 80K on it. In between I had to replace the engine (dropped a valve head which chewed up a piston and bent the main crank.) I lost it in an engine fire. And you know what? I also hated that car. I hated scraping my knuckles everytime I changed the sparkplugs. I hated the fact that I didn't have an oil filter. I hated the fact that I didn't have AC. When the heater boxes rusted through, I hated not having heat in the winter. Or alternatively having enough heat to melt plastic if you were unwary enough to leave it in front of the heater vents. I hated having to choose between having windshield wiper fluid, or having air in my spare tire. The day it burned up, I swore I'd never own an aircooled engine again. And I haven't. I still miss that beetle. I don't miss its quirks though.
On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 02:03 AM, Robert Keezer wrote: > I don't know about you, but after I take a long hard look at a > beautifully > restored spit window bus - the repressed memories all come back to > haunt me. > It was that bad. |
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