Locking ffuel Cap

[thehawk]

My first Bug had a split rear window. I WAS the joke:roflblack:

thehawk

 

[Firefly]

Toilet paper rolls for oil filter. Classic!

 

[Bob Denman]

In spite of all of that marvelous engineering; :shocked:, they still ran! :thumbup: I wonder how many of us got started driving those strange little foreign cars?? :dontknow:

 

[NancysToy]

I used to deliver pizza in one when I was in high school. There's nothing like trying to get a pizza to a customer still hot, in the winter in Michigan in a VW. That one had an aftermarket gas heater, which had two temps...ON & OFF. It's a wonder the carbon monoxide didn't kill me! The manifold heaters were useless...if you were fortunate enough to have one with a heater at all.

 

[boborgera]

In spite of all of that marvelous engineering; :shocked:, they still ran! :thumbup: I wonder how many of us got started driving those strange little foreign cars?? :dontknow:

Like i said before, No fuel or oil filter, And never failed to start, I put over 350 thousand miles between two bug's doing the taxi bumper car run in Manhatten for years, Had a lot of yellow paint mixed in with my red paint.nojoke

 

[Campverdefela]

I used to deliver pizza in one when I was in high school. There's nothing like trying to get a pizza to a customer still hot, in the winter in Michigan in a VW. That one had an aftermarket gas heater, which had two temps...ON & OFF. It's a wonder the carbon monoxide didn't kill me! The manifold heaters were useless...if you were fortunate enough to have one with a heater at all.

Yeah, scraping both the inside and outside of the windshield in winter was SOP as was going front wheel drive up a snow covered hill. Loved those days!

 

[Firefly]

We had a VW 411 sedan when I was a kid... loved that car... never really got to drive it.. but fond memories of that car. The heat actually sorta worked--- sometimes.... lol

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: You had HEAT??? :shocked:
All we had was the aforementioned carbon monoxide. Everybody in the car would have a headache after any trip exceeding 25 minutes... :gaah:
Parents could be very grumpy and totally unreasonable... :roflblack:

 

[TuckMiddle]

Gas heaters

I used to deliver pizza in one when I was in high school. There's nothing like trying to get a pizza to a customer still hot, in the winter in Michigan in a VW. That one had an aftermarket gas heater, which had two temps...ON & OFF. It's a wonder the carbon monoxide didn't kill me! The manifold heaters were useless...if you were fortunate enough to have one with a heater at all.

Boy, that line woke me up. My dad drove a flatbed old International for the propane gas company in Long Hill, CT during some of the war years. That heater always scared this 5 or 6 year old kid. Smelled, worked only when it felt like it and wouldn't you know - I bought a 1960 Corvair Monza brand new and the damn thing had a gas heater in front. Took up the space of a small bomb and that's what I thought it was.

Lots of cars and trucks had them and I don't recall anyone saying what a great invention they were. Sometimes on and the rest of the time off, until someone cleaned the igniter thing off. Kinda like an old "oil burner" many of the houses had, but not as reliable as the home heat.

Gees, I can smell it now.

Tuck

 

[Ga Blue Knight]

:2thumbs:

I wonder how many will understand that?

Only those born before 1950!! Probably!

 

[Bob Denman]

...and those of us whose parents were too cheap to buy new cars! pps: (1956)

 

[Ga Blue Knight]

...and those of us whose parents were too cheap to buy new cars! pps: (1956)

My folks were so cheap that my used 1968 VW was the first car in my family! We looked like clowns in the circus when we went to dinner, five in the family!

 

[Yol Bolsun]

We had a VW 411 sedan when I was a kid...

VW411! Heck, I was drivin' a 1958 Rambler when those came out cuz Dad wouldn't buy me a car. :rolfblack::rolfblack::rolfblack:

 

[boborgera]

VW411! Heck, I was drivin' a 1958 Rambler when those came out cuz Dad wouldn't buy me a car. :rolfblack::rolfblack::rolfblack:

Nash Rambler, Could never get it out of second gear.:roflblack: