Hey List,

Thanks for the good content lately, it has made for good lurking.

I am 29 and grew up with a 74 camper that my parents drove.  I started
buying, driving and tinkering with them myself at 13 or 14.  I had fun
trying to remember all of the old vws that I have played with.  Most of them
are:

82 westy's
67 westy
74 kombi camper
59 beetle
66 beetle
64 beetle
74 beetle
70 beetle
73 westy
70 passenger van
73 westy
79 westy
73 passenger van
67 beetle

As a background to how I got into vws the bug really bit at the island on
the MS river where we spent most weekends when I was younger.  There were no
paved roads, and most of the vehicles over there were willy's jeeps with a
few land rovers, land cruisers, broncos and a few old beetles tucked away in
a shed.  I was taken with my cj3a but one of the old guys gifted me a 70
beetle with a seized engine with the challenge the he bet I couldn't get it
running.  After weeks of filling the jugs with liquid wrench and twisting on
the crank I got it going and it ran pretty well even with a custom carb
gasket and a roof mounted fuel tank (no fuel pump).  The beetle had fairly
large grip spur mudders on the back and very little of it's sheet metal and
would pretty much skip across the mud holes.

It sure has been fun and at this rate will be until I grow "old".

Jonathan Poole