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"fintail" (fintail) 07/20/2018 at 14:45 • Filed to: None

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Well, the small town grocery store parking lot:

Something rare here:

Driven by a woman who might have been old enough to buy it new. Pristine but imperfect condition suggests an old restoration or immaculate original.

Also saw this real truck parked a couple blocks from home a few days ago:

That is all

JeepJeremy > fintail 07/20/2018 at 14:48

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I want that Jimmy!!!!!!!

AuthiCooper1300 > fintail 07/20/2018 at 15:14

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So it’s got a “disabled driver” card, it’s supposedly automatic... a n d it’s got four exhaust pipes?

G o o d f o r h e r .

fintail > AuthiCooper1300 07/20/2018 at 15:31

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To be fair, I think you can get a placard here for having a bad back or walking with a limp.  I looked at it, actual automatic, no doubt with an eventual 0-60 time.

AuthiCooper1300 > fintail 07/20/2018 at 15:42

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It still shows commitment !

Those exhaust pipes make me wonder if that young-at-heart lady may have had the car fitted with a big Type 4 engine – or, why not, a flat-six and relevant Sportomatic.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > fintail 07/20/2018 at 16:03

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I saw an orange bus like that the other day, painted like a 60s bus white on top, with some flowers for good measure. It also had torquethrust wheels, and big drag tires on the back, along with a stinger exhaust.   

fintail > AuthiCooper1300 07/20/2018 at 18:59

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And love, and old car doesn’t survive like this if it isn’t cherished.

I didn’t see her start it up, but as you say with those pipes, who knows what might be under the rear hatch. Anything would help, I suppose.

As an aside, my mom’s first new car was a Beetle in 1970.  Not too long after she met my dad, and he blew up the engine (hard to do, I think).  He replaced it with a Porsche 912 engine.  They sold the car before I was born.

vdubyajohn > fintail 08/05/2018 at 11:01

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No speedometers on the automatic buses, you get a calendar.

vdubyajohn > fintail 08/05/2018 at 11:07

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The four exhaust pipes are attached, it appears, to a “monza” style exhaust header system for the old air cooled engines. I’ve used these, and the sound is not unpleasant.
Much cheaper than replacing all the original VW pieces as well.