> Hi All,
> I just found this list but I'm not new to VWs at age 55yrs.
> I didn't get my first Bus till 1987 when I returned to PA from four years
in
> Egypt and my cousin gave me a "69 Kombi just so I'd have some wheels. I
> learned a lot about the type 2 from that beast but it was all good
> education. I had that bus till 1990 when I gave it to my son for his first
> car............He should have sued me cause he had it for less then six
> months when the steering box detached itself from the rusted out frame and
> made things interesting...........He did OK and actully drove the thing
home
> after he figured things out. He's 35 now and an execellent professional
> mechanic.
>
> In the meantime I had found a nice "81 Westy that I just had to have.
There
> were many good times in that Camper but the East coast winters were too
much
> for the poor thing and it was retired in 1998 with very little frame left
> under it.
>
> I also have a few other VWs, a 1971 Super Beetle Autostick that I dropped
a
> 1776 into, a 1970 Beetle stock, a 1981 Rabbit Pickup, a 1988 Fox GL and
the
> newest addition a 1980 California Vanagon with 70,000 original miles on
it.
>
>  I have had in the past a 1970 Ghia Cabrio, a "55 oval and a "56 oval but
> they were too rusted out for my level of restoration talent.
>
> May you never see VW death by Rust.............
> Warren
> In Rust Free Arizona now
>