Posted by jdemaris on January 20, 2011 at 11:17:40 from (67.142.130.14):
In Reply to: Old Volkswagens Porsches posted by Michael Williams on January 20, 2011 at 10:54:41:
To each his own, I guess. I hated the things when they were current. I spent half a year working in a Volkswagen rebuild shop and that was enough for me. I also made the mistake of owning a few. I'll take a turbo-charged Corvair Spyder anytime - if I feel the need for something air-cooled. Now, a Porsche - maybe . . I'd feel a little different. I passed up a couple of Porsche farm tractors a while ago, and now wonder if I should of got them.
I never found the Volks to be very reliable or rugged. Cheap? Yes, at the time.
Maybe if I lived down south, I'd feel a little different. No heat and defroster is a big draw-back in the northeast - unless your "Bug" has the optional gasoine heater/defroster.
My first Bug was a 1949. Didn't even have a fuel gauge. Just a reserve-tank switch like a motorcycle. My newest was a fuel-injected Karman Ghia with a gaoline heater then almost killed me.
Funny thing. Last night there was a short thing on TV about a place that restores Bugs. The guy claimed the engines easily last 300K miles. Hmmm. I worked in a rebuild shop and rarely heard of one making it to 100K. One valve ran hot and usually burned out at 80K.
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