So after 5 short years, I decide it is time to fire up the old 64 VW
>bug (I couldn't ride, cuz I had looked at a bottle of tequila).
>
>New battery, baking soda to clean the connections, got the old AM
>radio on in the car, hit the starter, everything goes dead.
>
>Call my VW guru friend Tony, he says, yep the issue is the ground /
>other connection near or at the battery, classic symptom.
>
>So I mess around some more, and finally decide to stop looking at the
>bottle of tequila...
>
>Stupid old car, you will not win, you will start.
We had a '58, a '66, and a '74. Aside from the first year fuel injection on the '74, remarkably similar mechanically. My Dad always said, "Why mess up a good thing?" ;-)