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20021115 Friday November 15, 2002

VW Bugs Rule Nice Orange Bug I don't know if any of you are into Volkswagens - but I've been a huge Bug fan for many years now. I got my first VW Beetle in 1991 - a 1969. I rebuilt the engine (1835), repainted it (hot pink) and thoroughly enjoyed it. In college, I killed it by driving it from Salem, OR (remember the 1993 story) to Denver. So I bought a 1968, in very good condition, for $600 and swapped engines. I drove that for a couple years until I was cut off on the way to the airport on Christmas Eve 1997. It was snowing and slippery roads, so I found myself wrapped around a tree and the victim of a cut-off and run. Luckily, a undercover cop saw the whole thing and busted the guy. It was probably a good think I wrecked my old bug, 'cause I met Julie 3 weeks later, and she would've hated that thing! It was a POS with a nice engine, nice stereo and nice wheels. You know they kind of car I'm talking about - I didn't have any primer on it though. I waited a couple years before buying my next bug - a 2000 Turbo Beetle. It's been a great car, fast and fun and for sale. But that's not the reason for this post - just wanted to share some cool VW desktops I found from one of my favorite magazines - VWTrends.

It's amazing how much more fun it was to write this post than all the other ones today. Posted in The Bus at Nov 15 2002, 05:23:18 PM MST 3 Comments

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Love vw beetle

Posted by Alex Mezh on January 22, 2006 at 06:33 AM MST #

i too am a bug fan but i have an 69 vw and it's a cherry

Posted by Donna on June 12, 2006 at 02:08 PM MDT #

Hey I want to know more. My husband and my self we got a '67. We call it "the Batmobile"

Posted by Joanna on August 04, 2006 at 11:32 AM MDT #

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