Here's my story of owning a VW Super Beetle:
In late 1976 we shipped a brand new left hand drive 1976 VW Dasher Wagon
[akin to an Audi Fox Wagon] from a London VW dealership ...........
bought sight unseen ........to Vancouver, BC from where I drove it in
mid winter to Calgary. Several years later we acquired a Super Beetle
and on a trip from Calgary to Edmonton the Beetle got rear ended at a
busy intersection in north east Edmonton. The rear end of the Beetle was
as far curved forward as the curves were in the opposite direction prior
to the accident. To attest to the rigor of VW's auto engineering, the
front end of the Dasher Wagon survived very well indeed. My wife was
rather red faced at having put a serious indentation in to her husband's
rear end the result of which the Beetle was toast. Husband and wife
presented themselves to the city police to report the collision. The
desk officer was very annoyed at seeing only two driving licences with
the same family name. He asked me the identify the offending party and I
responded by pointing to my wife. He almost killed himself laughing. It
must have been the best story of an auto accident he had heard in a long
long time! The auto insurance claim turned out nicely indeed. Auto
policies assume a third party involvement as ours did. Since we were
both first parties on the same policy we experienced a full payout, no
deductibles and no loss of no-claims-bonus and no subsequent
notification of any third party claims on our auto policy.
Could only have happened to the owner of a VW Beetle
jh
On 2014-02-27 1:47 PM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
>> My old '73 Superbeetle was in some respects the finest mountain vehicle
>> possible...
> With one fatal flaw. The twin tail pipes stuck out too far. One would
> rip out the tail pipes and muffler when going through a deep dip in
> mountain roads like a creek wash. If the road was wide enough to creep
> through at a diagonal it might be possible. What was needed was a
> cut-away in the stern like on third world buses. Many a beetle created
> this cut-away by default. :(
>
> One of my first vehicles was a '59 beetle. Needed a rebuild at 30k and a
> new engine at 60k like clockwork but exactly when was the question. You
> just carried a tool kit and did a rebuild along the roadside as
> necessary. 36hp and gutless. Always ran like mierda but always ran. I
> drove it home one time after it threw #3 rod through the case. Luckily
> the top so _all_ the oil didn't blow. Saved that rod as a souvenir.
> Around here somewhere. The heater ran off a leaky heat exchanger on the
> engine shroud so any heat produced was offset by the fact that you had
> to leave a window cracked to avoid asphyxiating oneself. The wipers were
> so anemic that in really bad weather we tied the tips together with a
> string fed in through the windows so the passenger could pull them bad
> and forth.
>
> No Nostalgia Mike
>
>
>
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