[Rhodes22-list] Bugs

[Steve]

:-) That was good:-) Wally.
Steve

--- Wally Buck <tnrhodey@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> >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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