Anyone who has or has owned a VW or VW bus please make a comment and tell me your story! I would love to read it!
Yesterday, I did paperwork most of the morning. Tony and I had lunch with Jon and Sandy Wolfmueller, but I can't tell you what we talked about, because I am sworn to secrecy. I spent the rest of my day doing paperwork and returning phone calls. My sister Cindy, called to invite us to a party Saturday night, and I am hoping that we can go to it.
Kinky took off for Vegas, yesterday afternoon, to speak at an event for a Judge. Tony spent the evening, searching for VW buses on his laptop, while I tried on my new outfits.
P.S Pete O. thank you for commenting and giving me the website to check out for VW buses—www.thesamba.com
I just checked it out and it is a great site and made me smile as I looked at the VW buses!
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Good morning from Las Vegas!
I started to write yesterday when I saw the picture of the VW van that you posted; and since you asked in this post..... My late husband and I had one exactly like Drew's when we lived in Thousand Oaks, CA. It was even the exact same color! The only difference that I can see is that ours didn't have a rack on top. My husband, Dan and my daughter, who was a teenager at the time, thought it was the BOMB. It WAS a lot of fun for all of us... I hope you'll find the perfect one (and I'm sure you will...) because they're the BEST. And, driving around in them actually does bring the good ol' days back again...thank goodness for that!
Peace out ;)
Judy
Hey Jude! That is so cool that you had a VW bus, just like Drew's! Thank you for the comment!
You mean there are people who did NOT have a VW or VW bus? My husband has some old VWs (one he coverted to a Baja Bug) to this day! And some day, he'll actually restore them to 'cherry' condition (or so he says)! Meanwhile he needs bumper stickers that say "Don't Laugh - It Runs"!
Here's my historic VW tale: While going to college in LA (Calif.) back in the late '60's, the only one of our "group" who had a vehicle at all had a dark blue VW 'beetle'. Those of us who hung out together were mainly sports jocks and glamor girls with the big bubble hair-dos (As for me, I favored the "Cher" straight hair look at the time. Come to think of it, I still do!). When we wanted to go out on dates, we had to pile 6 of us into that VW! I was happy to be dating the OWNER/DRIVER because I thus got my very own FRONT seat - riding SHOTGUN!
The gals in the backseat had to sit on the rather strapping sized guys' laps and brace their hands against the sides of the VW and also duck their heads down from the VW's interior roof so as not to ruin their hair-dos! Of course the VW had no a/c (what vehicle in Los Angeles at the time did?), so the open windows and the resultant air tried hard to have its own effect on those hair-dos, but let me tell you, those gals used a lot of HAIRSPRAY as preventative!
My most memorable recollection of that VW was during a rare rainstorm when the windshield wiper broke off as we drove to Hollywood to eat pizza at a great place called Two Guys from Italy. My date was leaning out the open window in the rain and holding that wiper in his hand (!) to fervently wipe the VW windshield as he drove!
Ah, those were the days, my friend; we thought they'd never end.....
I had a vw bus for short happy time till it caught on fire between houston and galveston. after the fire department put out the fire, I drove it home with a puddle of melted rubber above the drive shaft.
Oh my gosh! I love your stories and laughing out loud! Thank y'all for sharing! My '67, dark blue VW bug, Blue was the greatest VW! When I lived in Crested Butte, Colorado, when I was nineteen years old, I would always take two to three guys with me when I needed to get groceries in Gunnison, because when it would go off of the road into a snow drift—the guys, all good looking hippies with trust funds, would get out and pick it up and carry it back onto the road! Talk about fun times! And, either Cat Stevens would be singing, 'Peace Train' or Neil Young singing 'Harvest Moon' would be playing on my eight track!
Nancy, I thought of one more VW 'tale to tell'. It concerns a borrowed red VW Beetle and, while some of the details are fuzzy, the gist of it remains in my brain to this day.
In the mid-70's I borrowed the above-mentioned vehicle from my then sister-in-law. This was an eccentric little car that had been "in the family" for years and years of commuting from Bandera to San Antonio - for both parents and then the kids. This particular sister-in-law had wrecked it by going off the road thru a barbed wire fence. The damage caused the frame to be so crooked that the little car would go down the road as sideways as any crab! That sure gave it "personality"!
Still it was transportation and I needed to go that day from San Antonio to Austin. I stopped to pick up a girlfriend SE of Austin and had almost made it back to IH35 when a tire went flat. We pulled over so as to change the tire and The Problem immediately presented itself. The Problem was... how to open the trunk to get to the spare tire??? We pulled every knob and turned every switch and even tried furiously to jerk that trunk lid open to no avail. Finally we walked to IH10 where we ended up hitching a ride (that should tell you this was a LONG time ago) on a (name will not be mentioned) Petroleum Carrier 18 wheeler, whose driver had pulled over to take a nap. This was, of course, prior to cell phones and we had no way to call our husbands until we reached a town, so the big rig driver took us all the way to our destination, where we did whatever we had to do and also phoned our hubbies, who came to 'rescue' us.
They drove us back to the stranded little red VW with its flat tire and then proceeded to SOLVE The Problem. It turned out that the lever to open the trunk was....INSIDE THE GLOVE BOX!
Whoda THUNK it?
(As it turns out, it didn't matter, as the SPARE was also flat and had to be taken to a town to be repaired before we could get that red Beetle back on its sideways track home to Bandera.)
I had a friend in High School that had an old faded red beetle and we had a split math class with lunch in the middle. I remember going out side at lunch and getting herbal (LOL)in her bug. After school the little red bug was stuffed full of young girls full of hope and promise driving down the road and singing out loud to the radio, Wow what a walk down memory lane.
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