My Pretty Splitty ...

You should include links to website with pix.

................I've got to remember to ask one of my brothers if he's seen your 'pretty splitty'. He and his wife live in Deltona. He drives more than one vehicle but one of them is an orange(?) seventies era bug........when he can keep it running..........lol. He also takes I-4 to Orlando where he's a firefighter at that big firehouse (station #1) that's in the downtown district. More than twenty years ago, he drove a splitty bus around Sanford for a while..........maybe it was yours! I've been to Deltona many times , over the years, but I still can't figure out that rat's maze of streets..........heh heh.

.........You ever go swimming with the manatees at Blue Springs during the winter months? I understand that it's no longer privately owned these days. I haven't been there in maybe thirty years.

Tim Rogers..........class of '68 at Seminole HS in Sanford............now living in NY.

I will do that this weekend. Diane

If your brother lives here in Deltona, he has most likely seen my Pretty Splitty and I know I wave to several bugs in town .. tell your brother to say hi if he sees me at the store or coffee shop or ????

I am from Miami but moved away from there in 77 .. Orlando sucks, Deltona too .. but it is better than Miami when it comes to crime.

That all depends on who you ask... Like the guy across the street from me who had two front windows stolen from his house. The amazing thing was they looked like they had been professionally removed. The cops thought he was "remodeling".

BTW, my condolences on fighting all the I-4 traffic. My heart goes out to you. lol

K. "A hundred days to make me older since the last time that I saw your pretty face. A thousand lies to make me colder and I don't think I could look at this the same, but all the miles that seperate disappear now when I remember your face."

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:25:25 -0400, "Tim Rogers" ran around screaming and yelling:

hehe...my dad graduated in 66....LOL JT

................Back then, it wasn't appropriate to antagonize those who are wiser and more mature..............lol

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 22:22:32 -0400, "Tim Rogers" ran around screaming and yelling:

hmm....wiser? maybe...more mature? lol doubt it...we are all big kids here....part of growing up is *earning* the right to be immature... JT

I got the same thing when I worked at Automatic Data Processing (ADP) and drove a 74 Beetle. I finally caved and bought a modern vehicle. I should have known that the ADP was not a good company to work for when the 21 year old college intern had the longest tenure in the sales department in that office. Bigger companies are not always better. Sometimes the big wheels turn small like they do at VWoA.

Bill Berckman

HEY !!! I was 9 a genius .. I was 4 when I graduated !! Diane

ooops .. I just realized I made a typo .. did I say 1968 ?? I meant 1986 .. yeah .. that's the ticket ... Dislexia .. AND I was only 4 ...

I had a '79 Bus which was fairly reliable 'til I sold it to a friend, basically a Harley guy, who just wasn't willing to take proper care of it and do the maintenence it needed to keep it going. He once drove it with the oil filler cap off, spilling gunk all over the engine bay. For three years it sat in his front yard -- by then it was nicknamed "Scarecrow" because that's all it was doing -- gathering dust and being used as a storage shed on wheels. He finally sold it to someone recently. Sad. I also had a '68 Beetle and a '59/65 Beetle ('59 body over '65 floorpan -- I found this fact out to my embarrassment when trying to resell it.)

They're all great vehicles but anyone interested in buying one needs to know that they need some TLC to keep going. If you just want to drive it and forget about it, might as well lease a new Civic or something like that. I don't recommend the new Beetles. My '98 Beetle had numerous problems: it went through *5* headlights due to a manufacturing defect by the light maker (I paid the labor); the rubber molding over the rear window fell away shortly after purchase (bad glue job); the electric hatch failed after about a year preventing the hatchback from closing; a couple of other things I forget now. It really soured me on the "new" VWs, and turned me off to the new convertible Beetle (I don't want to imagine the problems it could have with that retractable top, especially if it's electric.)

Hey Dee,dont listen to the bad vibes bout you bus,these folks mean well but dont know any better,but on to cooling your bus if you got a few bucks you can let go look for safari winshields that tilt out at the bottom,this is a/c at its best plus you can keep crosby,peace and happy truckin

I am not 100% sure, but I was thinking that the safari windows are illegal in Florida, anyone ???

Diane

Not sure about those windows.....but I do think it's funny that a rear view mirror isn't a requirement on a car here !!!

Susan

....hell its hard enough to get most of the geriatric drivers in florida to look FORWARD....please don't suggest they do anything to distract what little attention they do have focused on whats happening when viewed through their substantial medication doses and tri-to-focal's =-)))

...Gareth

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:39:11 -0500, "Susan S." ran around screaming and yelling:

in virginia you can sheetmetal your rear window opening as long as you have side mirrors...so no inside "rearview" required... JT

Florida ?? Where ?? I am in Orlando, just north of Orlando actually. Native of Miami .. but stuck here in the Armpit of Central Florida because of Grandkids !!

I'm in the panhandle as they call it......Right outside of Pensacola !!

Susan