... and I can't even work on the newest car. What a change from the Beetle.
cm -------------- Original message -------------- From: Brian J White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ok Carleton, always with the same old Saab stories...... *wink* > > > At 18:07 2007-07-09, Carleton MacDonald wrote: > >I owned a Beetle (1964 1200) from 1971 to 1976. I did my own work > >on the car, everything from brake jobs, to tune-ups, to a complete > >engine overhaul. The three biggest tools I had were John Muir's > >wonderful hippie manual "How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A > >Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Complete Idiot", and my 10 > >mm and 13 mm wrenches. I still have all three (not the Beetle > >though), and all three show the effects of long and devoted use. My > >neighbor actually asked me why all my wrenches were fairly clean > >except the 10 mm and the 13 mm. "I owned a Volkswagen Beetle," I told him. > > > >I sold it to a friend and got a 1976 Rabbit, then a 1978 diesel > >Rabbit, which wore out in 1986. I traded it in and bought a 1986 > >Saab 900S, followed in 1992 by a 1988 Saab 900T (after the S was > >destroyed in an ice storm collision with two trucks; we walked home, > >a tribute to how well those cars are made), and, when it diedin 2002 > >on Autoroute 15, km 26, in Quebec, with a 1999 Saab 9-5 SE, which is > >still running strong. > > > >Carleton > > > >
