Sophmore year of college, I bought $100.00 VW Bug. Became very popular as the only starving student with a car. Cheap and easy to maintain but drove it into the ground as a poor student's taxi. ( I'll take you there if you buy the beer and/or some gas.) When the cost of repair parts exceeded $50.00, I sold it to the junkyard as parts for $50.00 and bought a $100.00 VW bug. I did that three more times while at school, though the last one cost $125.00.
Wildman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hungerford" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:00 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 39019] Re: What I'm working on... On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Paul McCool<[email protected]> wrote: > I've had umpteen VW's myself, ranging from thrashed old beaters to a very > nice Karmann Ghia. My wife and I got acquainted because our parents knew > each other and when her parents told my mom that she was having trouble > keeping her '67 on the road, my mother volunteered me to work on it. For > free. But hey, she bought me beer, and in two months we will celebrate our > 15th anniversary, all because of a Volkswagen. > > Paul M. The only VW I've owned was a '61 bus that had quarter-cylinder windows at the back corners and a transplanted '67 Beetle engine whose exhausts came out into the rear bumper so there were soot stains up the back. Note that this was the first vehicle I ever owned, and it was sold before I ever had my driver's license; I'd driven it quite a bit for practice with my dad along in the passenger seat, but the one time he tried to drive it he discovered that the transaxle was in bad shape and decided it was better to part with it than try to repair it. It had that wonderful old VW stink to it, too. :-) -- Mike Hungerford http://www.chthulhu.com/ Freak out with your geek out! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.33/2267 - Release Date: 07/27/09 17:59:00 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
