Vic Smith wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2009 08:28:17 -0400, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2009 08:18:16 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

Had an afterthought. If you want to feel unsafe in even mildly windy days,
you should try driving the '65 VW bus.
If someone sneezes in a car beside you with an open window, you go off the
road.

Don't doubt that. Even the '64 bug I had was the diciest thing I ever
drove in the wind. A semi passing would move it a foot.

--Vic


After my MGA died when I worked at the KC Star, I bought a new Bug.
Might have been a 65. $1350 including FM radio. Anyway, the assignment
editor had me running to small towns in Missouri for the sort of color
feature stories the paper liked in those days. Lots of two lane roads,
lots of trucks coming the other way. Many a time I thought the Bug was
going to go into low earth orbit.

I can report, however, that it was possible to get laid in the back seat
of a VW. In Columbia, Missouri, in the parking lot of a dorm at
Christian College.

I'm sure that'll go over real good here.
I bought a passenger seat recliner hinge setup at Warshawsky so I
could sleep in mine when I traveled to Portland, OR.
Tall as I am and endowed as I am it would be impossible to do anything
useful in the back of a bug.

--Vic


I'm about 6'/2.5" now. I used to be 6'3"...but who knows where that half
inch has gone?

Columbia, Missouri was "the" place to go for a road trip in those
days...lotsa gals at Mizzou, plus Christian College and Stephens
College, in those days, women students only. My KC girlfriend in those
days went to Mizzou for her degree, so I spend considerable time Friday
nights getting there, and then coming back so I could at work by 4:30
Sunday afternoon.