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No kidding! Ours started our that same gray and my dad and I painted the top black just like that one. Memory lane,
No kidding! Ours started our that same gray and my dad and I painted the top black just like that one. Memory lane,
Yep, the first Idiot's guide was for the buglet etc. Awesome book.I miss building up VWs, 1600cc out to 1835cc and 2200cc, single carb and dual carb respectively. Had to change the axles to handle the torque. Easiest car to work on ever!! Jack up the rear, 4 bolts and some cables and drop the engine out the bottom.![]()
You'd have to be an idiot if you couldn't figure out a Vdub!!!Yep, the first Idiot's guide was for the buglet etc. Awesome book.
I had one like this, underpowered little thing with it's 1300cc transverse mounted engine. in the late 60s parts for these were difficult to get. But I made it scoot, and it got me laid.
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Got me out of the house and up into the hills with a blanket and a girl... the rest was on me. Edit: Oooo, they were all over me!!!THAT got you laid.... they must have been lesbians and thought you were a butch.
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Got me out of the house and up into the hills with a blanket and a girl... the rest was on me. Edit: Oooo, they were all over me!!!
BTW, I'm a male lesbian don'cha know!!!
Oh my! Now my tongue is getting hard.
I got yer lady boner...Dude... you’re just making my point.... you were talkin’ about popping a lady-boner earlier....
+1I had one like this, underpowered little thing with it's 1300cc transverse mounted engine. in the late 60s parts for these were difficult to get. But I made it scoot, and it got me laid.![]()
A 6 cylinder B would be like a V8 Morgan - where the eff do you put all that iron?If I remember correctly, the MGB-GT and MGC-GT had a 6 cylinder engine in them and were RWD.... And 1100’s were FWD![]()
My first car was a '64 B. Blew the engine. Started to restore it, discovered it would be easy to convert it to a RH drive, lost interest and sold it for parts.
Bro bought a 68 BGT (IIRC). He left it behind when he moved to Cali, I drove the sh1t out of it. There's a unique smell to a running B.
Loved the fluid clutches, hated tuning twin Strombergs, and the trailing arm shocks were a bane.
Replaced it with a '76 Starsky & Hutch Torino, then a '68 Javelin SS.
Bought a '72 Midget. What a POS, but I loved it! Unlike the B, it could corner and handle curves at any speed. 35 MPG.
Burned out and rebuilt reverse gear. Blew the head gasket, and rust got it like stage 4 cancer. That thing hated 55, purred like a kitten at 70. Ultimately the tub collapsed from the rust, sold it for parts.
But it was a shagg machine - just riding in it would get my GF all worked up. Young, dumb, & full, I was too happy to oblige.
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A 6 cylinder B would be like a V8 Morgan - where the eff do you put all that iron?
Pain!I had a perfectly straight ‘70 Javelin (the year before they got those puffed out tenders over wheel wells) through most of high-school and into my early 20’s... I loved that car, then my first wife hit a frakin’ light pole and creamed the right front corner in.... in an EMPTY PARKING LOT!!
One of MANY reasons she’s an ex-wife...besides being a CHEATING WHORE while I was deployed overseas.![]()
... and don't forget those ankle straps behind the doors.I miss building up VWs, 1600cc out to 1835cc and 2200cc, single carb and dual carb respectively. Had to change the axles to handle the torque. Easiest car to work on ever!! Jack up the rear, 4 bolts and some cables and drop the engine out the bottom.![]()
My first car was a '64 B. Blew the engine. Started to restore it, discovered it would be easy to convert it to a RH drive, lost interest and sold it for parts.
Bro bought a 68 BGT (IIRC). He left it behind when he moved to Cali, I drove the sh1t out of it. There's a unique smell to a running B.
Loved the fluid clutches, hated tuning twin Strombergs, and the trailing arm shocks were a bane.
Replaced it with a '76 Starsky & Hutch Torino, then a '68 Javelin SS.
Bought a '72 Midget. What a POS, but I loved it! Unlike the B, it could corner and handle curves at any speed. 35 MPG.
Burned out and rebuilt reverse gear. Blew the head gasket, and rust got it like stage 4 cancer. That thing hated 55, purred like a kitten at 70. Ultimately the tub collapsed from the rust, sold it for parts.
But it was a shagg machine - just riding in it would get my GF all worked up. Young, dumb, & full, I was too happy to oblige.
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A 6 cylinder B would be like a V8 Morgan - where the eff do you put all that iron?