Erin, You may be right...we'll see.
The biggest factor was the likelihood that we will be downsizing from our current home and space and 2 car garage and large driveway to a smaller home where I'd be unlikely to have a good covered place for the Bug. Also when I started restoring it I thought one of my kids (or grandkids when they started driving) might want it but I realized some years ago that that was unlikely. Oldest grandson is a sophomore at East Carolina Univ. and his parents live in Tampa so he needed something more long distance road worthy than the Bug and really none of my kids or grandkids or their spouses are really into older cars or have the interest and mechanical aptitude to maintain an older car. Wife hasn't driven it in probably 15 years so I was really the only one that got any use out of it. She was always afraid that someone would run a stop sign and hit it and hurt me and total the car and the insurance would not cover the value. I just came to the realization that it might be time to let it go to another good home which it now has. It wasn't easy at all as I could see my father-in-law in it as we would go to golf course in FL. It was just the memories it represented. Garage looks rather empty now with only my wife's Sonata parked in there. I expect there will be some days when it hurts to see it not there but life moves on and I will always have the memories won't I. Money I got for it will help pay for some new hearing aids I need badly but that wasn't the prime mover in the decision even though my wife and daughter think otherwise. I'm just very thankful the Lord blessed me with it , the experience and the memories for this season of my life. God is good! I wish you Godspeed on getting one of yours back on the road again. If there is another VW in my future down the road...only He knows and His will and plan are perfect. We will see.... Blessings and peace to you and yours, Mike Morehouse On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:02 AM, No Quarter <[email protected]> wrote: > Well I know Mike that you can never just have one VW or no VW. One way or > the other you will end up with another because the journey is more fun than > the destination both in travel and VW restoration. At some point, one will > come along and the timing will be just right and you will once again go > down that path only this time you will know what you are doing long before > you get started. > > I've never sold off any of my VWs - I just can't part with them. Too many > good memories associated with them. > > May I ask what prompted you to sell your bug? > > NQ > > > -- > Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/vi > [email protected] > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
