This familiar ’64 VW is one of Eugene’s legendary Cuba-mobiles, and lives not too far from me. We’ll take a closer look (if you’re not too much of a neat-freak) one of these days, but here it is, heading off to a handyman job or something like that. No padded vinyl roof to scratch up with that load.
Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul stickers side-by-side! Far left and far right wrapped around and meeting somewhere in political hyperspace. That’s Oregon.
If the cart is tied onto the hitch, it’s a pickup.
The closest I came to this utility I happened to be driving. Put a uhaul trailer on behind my 61 Beetle and took 2 seabags, my buddies Harley Sportster, and my Honda from El Paso to Kansas. Many big hills in first gear and on that particular leave I lost the transmission in my beetle.
Wound up taking that car to Panama and it might still be running if some drunk sailor hasn’t wrecked it. Building a beetle engine on a kitchen table is not myth and the need is frequent in such climate. Found out too late that compression ratio is the answer. Over 6.5:1 winds up meaning a short life in the tropics.
I got rid of my first car, a ’63 Bug, when a bearing in the transaxle that had started moaning progressed to a scream. Now I’m sure it’s because I hugely overloaded it with dorm-mates on shopping trips. I was the only one with a car. Dumb kid.
Another dorm-mate there rebuilt his bug’s engine in the hall’s bathroom. Very educational.
Heh. In my case, it was rebuilding a motorcycle engine in the kitchen during my college days. Didn’t go over well with the landlord, though the mess was confined to some derelict refrigerators (old veggie drawers make for great parts washing trays). After I left, the house rules forbade motor rebuilding indoors. Oops.
I suspect Ron Paul’s politics are closer to Kucinich’s than to Goldwater’s, but that’s for another blog.
Wow, this guy is hardcore! I would love to see more of that bug.
A well used beetle.
“A well
usedabused beetle.”There, I fixed it.
Lol 🙂
Tell Murliee Martin at TTAC to send you some of his photos of this car’s (not too) distant cousin, Hubert the Hatred Bug.
It appears that Oregon, like Florida, has no state inspection.
The only inspections, and only in certain counties at least are for exhaust emissions, the same goes for Washington State as well.
At least after the car’s been inspected and registered in the state to begin with.
That Beetle doesn’t look too bad except for the mangled rear bumper.
Looks like it’s owned by a hoarder which automatically makes it that much less desirable.
What’s a hoarder wrt cars?