A New Beetle

[Whaler]

Maggie took her 99 VW Beetle in for the 40,000 mile service yesterday and they called today saying that it needed $475.00 in repairs over and above the 40,000 mile service.

We had been talking about a new car and planed on selling my truck so figured this was the time. We traded in her Beetle and my Ranger, they gave more than I expected and no service to pay for on the old Beetle, we drove a new 2008 Beetle home.

[crokett]

Nice. Fun to drive too. My in-laws are in town and rented one to go to the mountains last week.

But... you traded your truck in on a Beetle? How you gonna tow your boat?

Wait a minute... a '99 going in for the 40k mile service???? My car is an '05 and it just turned over 60k.

[cabinetman]

Congrats on the new car. Nothing like that new car smell. Whoa...I just thought of something. How you gonna stuff lumber in a Beetle?
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[MilDoc]

I didn't know they still made the Beetle. Fond memories of my sunshine yellow 1972 Bug!

[Whaler]

Only 40K on her 99 Beetle and 36K on my 04 Ranger.
She had a roof rack on the old one, that I saved so I may look like the Ikea commercial at times.
My last Beetle was one I bought new in 64, what a difference.

[Ed62]

Congrats on the new purchase. I'm sure you'll like the mileage better than that of your Ranger.

Ed

[bigstick509]

Old Bug

I didn't know they still made the Beetle. Fond memories of my sunshine yellow 1972 Bug!

Looks like a fun little car dick, like Mildoc I also have found memory's of my 72 Beetle.

[Black wallnut]

I took my driver's test in a hmmm...IIRC a '66 body pan and running gear, with a '68 body. Lots of memories in that car. We, (dad, one of my older brothers, and I) started the rebuild on May 19, 1980. Was not any school for a week so we didn't have much else to do. My oldest brother was given a beetle for his HS graduation in '79. He rolled it the next fall, sold it back to dad. We had to replace a bunch of sheet metal in the body pan. Dad had several upgrades that he always did to bugs: toss the back seat,(replaced with a piece of plywood), place a coil next to the battery that somehow increased the voltage when a screwdriver was shorted across it (don't recall how it worked or why but it did) whenever it was hard starting, and bending the shift lever to a more comfortable position.

Great looking ride Dick! That seems like a perfect car for where you live.