Originally Posted by MommaColleen
OK, call me a dork if you want but I want a 1969 VW bug, candy apple red with a black soft top! Then I want a driver cause I can't drive stick
Not dorky, and I don't drive stick either. And I can't teach my kids to drive and teaching them stick cost extra - so they don't drive stick. Hopefully my son will learn different in the military.
However, the bugs were very durable cars, and very practicaal - but I always felt cramped in them back then. This is probably because my mom drove a 69 Impala. Amazingly, this was not considered a "big" car then, but in my mom's words "big enough to feel safe". Bugs were safer than most people expected them to be back then.
The VW busses however, were not very safe. Those were the busses which were tricked out hippy dippy flowerchild style. Huge problems with rollover, but a lot of large families preferred them to station wagons, as they were more economical and easier to see from, and the kids were actually seated, not jammed in the back by the window.
I have a friend who has a 1970 GTO Judge. It is his pride and joy. Lots of beach memories in that from when he was young.