OT... kinda-Everybody step up

Not sure if we all know who's what age here, feel free to participate or not. I got this idea after seeing the NB thread a little while back. Everyone was talking about what their first car/driving experience etc. was and I thought "Man, I must be out to lunch (more than usual) when visualizing people when reading posts". Here I figured most of us were young punks but then I read about guys driving Studebakers, etc. :o)

I'll start:

Hi, my name is Gary and I'm a Volkswagen-aholic. ("Hi, Gary") First car

1966 Beetle, I turned 36 on Christmas day.

Now your turn :o)

G
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My first car was a 54 VW cabriolet. I got it in 1965. Drove it until I got a new 65 Red bug sedan and drove that through college. bought a 70 Chevy Malibu after graduating college. Then bought a 73 Olds Cutlass the year I got married. Bought a 33 Chevy coach to restore then too. In 75 bought a 74 Super beetle and drove that for 10 yrs and sold it for as much as I paid for it. It was mint when I sold it. Then bought an 85 Golf then a 88 Jetta. Then bought a pristine

37 Buick slant back with 47 K on it in 75. Kept andf drove the Buick for fun until 1988. Then sold the chevy and Buick and took the cash. My son and daughter went through the **Jetta through college. Then got a used 94 Jetta that was also passed down through them and since she is the youngest the 94 took her through second year of law school. My wife also has a 97 Jetta we bought along the way.......I am 55 and have a restored 68 Bug cabriolet and a 62 Ghia cabriolet close to being painted and upholstered...Eric NJ
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hi, i'm bob. (hi bob) live in st. louis, mo. electrician by trade. 40 years young. our 8 children keep us this way. we have 4 vw's-- 67 westy, 74 westy, 62 ragtop, 70 'vert. started on the

67, but bought a 74 for the 17 y.o., been redoing that. not as experienced as most others in the group, i mostly read, learn and ask questions. fortunately, a friend of mine is the local vw "expert"- his work has been tried and proven in the long haul. and there is a guy that races and has a full machine shop for vw's. 74 will stay mostly stock-mebbe bigger engine later,67 will get a bigger engine and stay mostly stock, the 'vert gets a n even bigger engine, and then the 62- that's going to be my "sleeper".
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I'll participate,...............'cept for the AA intro,..............................I'm Scott,..............I feel like I'm 1.5 million years old today,................however I am only

  1. In the group,................middle of the road I suspect............lots of these guys are Olde Pharts,.................I'm too young for that ID so far,...............

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I'm Pete...I'm eighteen, my first VW was a '69 Beetle which I bought when I was 12...sold in October of 2003. I have a '68 Beetle which I am in the process of restoring...I'm the 2nd owner! I also have a '92 Jetta GLI that my parents bought new which was given to me when they bought their 2003 New Beetle 1.8T. I've also had a 1988 Jetta Carat, and a 1992 VW Corrado VR6.

I'm a warranty anaylst for the local VW Dealership!

If you don't, it's its.

and likewise yours

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Pete Cressman

.........Hi........I'm Tim and I've owned several bugs over the past 30+ years and will probably own a few more in the years to come. I'm a 53 year old grumpy old fart who also likes waterboxer vanagons and may someday get a split window bus..................but I can't stand those stinking POS rabbit/golf/jettas because they SUCK!

BTW...........Last week, my heart was gladdened to see one of those 'great handling' jettas with the stupid spoiler on the trunk lid sitting in a snowbank after losing it on an exit ramp. You could see tracks in the snow where the driver ran away before the cops arrived which was probably not too long after I drove by.

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Tim Rogers

Hi, my name is Nick. I too am a volksaholic. I used to come here often a couple years ago...and then got busy. I've continued to alllow volkswagens to run my life though. I turned 22 3 days before christmas. My first car was a 74 Super Beetle. All I've ever been addicted to is aircooled, although lately I've been running with the 'wrong crowd' and have been getting into another potent addiciton...Water cooled.

;) Nick

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Nein H20 VWs

I'm 44. First driving experience? The summer I was 15, my aunt let me drive her Chevy Vega around a little. Talk about starting out right, my first driving lesson was in a car with a stickshift.

My first VW? The '71 Super we bought to fix up for my daughter in 2002. Or, the one bought for myself, the '69 I have had for about a year now.

When I was a baby, my parents would often place me in a blanket-lined rear well of my father's Beetle (probably a late-50's model) and we'd travel to watch races at Lime Rock and other New England venues.

Malcolm '71 SB (Herbie) '69 Beetle (Gus)

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Malcolm

Alan here. Warm and toasty in the desert. 48 years young. Present Bug is a '69 Type 1, reconditioned to like new. I've owned 6 other VWs over the years. '67 Bug, '74 STD. '73 Super, '67 Bus, '76 Bus, '85 Jetta. The '69 was the first I had the time and money to re-do. All the others (except the Jetta, which I got new) were intended to be re-conned, but something always got in the way.

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Alan Nelson

Hello, my name is Mike Cross, I am 47 years old and live in Lake Charles, Louisiana. I have (2) 1971 Superbeetles 1 is a parts car and a 1970 Standard. I owned a bug back in 1977 when I was in the USAF and loved driving it in the mountains in New Mexico and wanted another ever since. Right now I have the body off the 71 Super and replaced the floorpans. I am in the process of assembling the car now but it is moving kinda slow. Hopefully when the weather gets nicer more progress will be made. I haven't posted much on the newsgroup but I do read it daily and want to be more of a participant but my knowledge is limited right now.

Mike Cross

71 Superbeetle 71 Superbeetle Parts Car 70 Standard

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John Boy here. Graphic designer, photographer, computer programmer. Age? I've been 30 almost twice. I'll just say I was born in the first half of the previous century, it's 0F where I live, and I have two beautiful, pristine Bugs under wraps: a '58 custom with a mystery engine that's too fast to be a 1776, a stone stock original '72 that can't get out of its own way, and a hugely modified T1 powered kit car that's too good for me but I'm so far into it I can't sell it - except to Randy but he's willing to spend so much money on it I feel guilty.

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jjs

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:24:12 -0600, snipped-for-privacy@xyzzy.stafford.net (jjs) ran around screaming and yelling:

hehe...no wonder you are *almost* twice as bad as me....LOL J

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Joey Tribiani

Yer kiddin, right?

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jjs

Jeremie Age: 21

Occupation: Electrician

Diagonosis: Addict

Cure: None

Aids in addiction: 1972 Super that I purchased with the help of parents in

1998, been working on it ever since.

Jeremie

1972 SB
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Jeremie, tell me about the black hardware. Looks real good. Did you paint over the chrome? How is it holding up?

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jjs

My name is Mike ("Hi, Mike") and I'm a newcomer. I'll keep coming back. I'm 53 and have never worked on a car in my life. I'm an electrical engineer by trade and like to work on bicycles, though, so I'm not a total loss in the hand-eye-tools department. I have a 71 bus that my new wife found for us at a local auto auction for the ridiculous price of $1900. It has a new 1776 engine in it, but needs work, so I'm learning how to take care of my Wonderbus with the help of the smart guys here on RAMVA. Mainly because it reminds me of my misspent youth riding around on the streets of Ventura, CA with my loadie friends (didn't know they were loadies at the time!), and also because it is so cool to drive down the Coast Highway here in San Diego north county and have surfers give me the "peace" sign.

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Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliot

First car, 57' black oval vw. age 57

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Dennis Wik

I'm 36, my first car was a 73 Beetle ($800, from a fellow with a son a couple of years behind me in high school; it was first car for father and son both) which unfortunately disappeared when the friend who was going to rebuild the engine got an out of town job and disappeared leaving it with a friend of his who had it parked on the street and eventually forgot to move it often enough to not get towed! gee, thanks... a 73 Squareback ($800 or $900, I think. purchased from hippy chick who a friend turned out to know who'd purchased it from a fellow a girl I later worked with happened to know. to price of car add cost of new master cylinder required immediately and cost of transmission work I postponed for over a year but knew I'd need if ever I were to go in reverse using the transmission) was my replacement while (I thought) the Beetle was being rebuilt. When the Squareback was MOFOCO'd, I bought a 77 bus with serious body problems (my stepbrother owned a body shop in SC) only to have the beam collapse in WI before I could get it home. Before I could find a beam for less than the $900 I'd paid for the bus, I'd made the mistake of buying a 77 Westie from the brother of my best friend in WI. The bad muffler turned out to hide a knock in the engine, so sadly the engine from Bus 1 (Matilda) went into the more solid Westie only to have the Westie turn out to have some sort of fuel problem which is STILL not repaired two years later... :P Westie cost is $1500 plus $900 for the engine bus (no other parts retrieval since the guy who hasn't repaired the Westie lost the name and address of the junkyard with Matilda) plus $400 for the engine swap. Since my employers ran out of cash and laid me off almost immediately after the Westie went into the shop, it's stuck there until I break down and tow it back to SC - unless it's actually repaired. The squareback needs a new starter, but is otherwise back in operable shape in SC after a couple of thousand dollars spent repairing the repairs made by MOFOCO in WI. I now drive a 77 bus I purchased in Vancouver in April for ~$500. It's a former Westie hardtop, but the PO removed all but the table, cooler, curtains and mattress - even the light and (not a Westie part, but...) the gas heater. I also have two severely rusted fasties, 70 and 73, which are nearly complete between them. I hope to assemble one nearly solid car from them in the next few months. $400 plus whatever I buy to repair them. Probably too much detail - my apologies, but I need to get back to other tasks and won't take time to edit. :)

oh, and even my friends tend to call me Mez or Animal Boy. :) The latter caused some mild discomfort to a friend who always called me Animal Boy, which comes from a Ramones album and song, when he introduced me to Joey Ramone.

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See I told you there wer Olde Pharts here!...........LOL

( nudge tim )

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Name: Sneaks Age: 37 First car: 71 Super (LeBug,....don't ask) Current VW: None Future: Buying a 68 Bug on Wednesday (hopefully, weather permitting)

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