[Rhodes22-list] Bugs

[Wally Buck]

Rummy,

You betcha! My Dad was pissed when I spent $125 for a stereo, I only paid 
$75 for the car! I had a Pioneer Super Tuner, FM Casette with Jenson 6 X 9 
speakers mounted behind the back seat. Bugs and VW Buses/Vans ran on a 6 
volt system until 68. Radio Shack used to sell a 6 to 12 volt convertor. 
There was a big market for this device. In the 60s the bug was one of the 
best selling cars in America. The convertor  worked ok but really put a load 
on the battery at idle. I got lazy and left the battery lid off the battery 
one time. The springs in the back seat shorted the battery out and started a 
fire while I was driving. The car filled up with smoke and I pulled over the 
side of road. I had to pull the seat out while on fire (the seat that is) to 
save my car from going up in smoke. I went to the junkjard and got a new 
seat out of a wreck.

These cars were really easy to work on, I could always get it to run. I did 
have to use a yardstick for my gas gauge. You had to stick it into the tank 
and measure how many inches of gas you had. Don't even ask me if the heat 
worked, I used to have to scrap ice off the inside of the windshield!

With snow tires on my bug would go almost anywhere. I drove to Hattera in 
the 70s and we motored all over the beach. I aired down to about 10 PSI, if 
we got stuck we just lifted the rear end and moved it.

Those were the days .....

Wally






>From: R22RumRunner@aol.com
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
>To: rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Bugs
>Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:39:04 EST
>
>Wally,
>You had a tape deck in a VW?
>
>Rummy
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