I'm gona cruise in a Bug this summer

Yet again, some of you older members should remember last summer German Shepherd Rescue of BC's garage sale we had, and had a VW Bug in our yard for it. The winner of the car donated it back to the GSRBC and it's up for raffle again starting now.

Here is my last link to it and the Bug....

http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23836&highlight=gsrbc



So it's scheduled to be at several events this summer and drivers are needed. It's not like I have much to do so I'm going to take it to a few events. I'm also going to find out when the VW Car Show is coming to town and see if the bug could get a prime spot for the raffle. I wonder if they will let my dogs ride shotgun?

 

I'm going to be cruising in a bug some also...I bought a 72 off a friend of mine back in September, finally got it on the road last week. It had been slammed 5 inches up front. I replaced the front beam with a good used one that had 2"dropped spindles. The rear still needs to come up a inch or two.

 

That is a good looking green Bug, what year is it?

 

It's a 72 and was fully restored inside and out by a shop in town that donated the car and the $ and time for the resto.

Yours looks cool also, I really dig the funky hub caps.

 

Beautiful buggies.

mike

 

Have fun with your bugs this summer.

 

We just extracted a Bug from a garage. The car is a 1966 and it was put away in 1974 with 76,000 miles. Collector's wet dream. We don't know what we want to do with it yet, but trade from one that is already resto modded would probably be our best move.

 

Bug

I,ll be in the 63

 

Hope you can raise more money for those pups this year, by taking that little Bug to a few shows. Check out the one that was at our car show last Sunday. He had some kind of hydraulics on it. After he parked he lowered it to the ground...cool!

 

Cooool...... I'm picking up the Bug tomorrow AM, get to drive it home and then Saturday morning I'm driving it up island to some function ( I don't even know what yet), then drive it home and have it until Monday AM



.......Shure hope it's not one of those craft fairs with the hand knitted coat hangers!.......


Yes, I'll have the camera loaded:2_thumbs_up_-_anima

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It just keeps getting better! I just found out that Sunday morning I'm bringing the bug to .........




I have not been to one since I owned my Baja, sheeze that a lot of years ago.

 

Today is the day we raffle off the Bug.... And it's just poring rain!

Anyways, here's some links to it and what we did and are doing for newer members who mite be interested.....

Our Griffin with Deb even got his 10 seconds of fame close to the end of the video
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0x3ogeivjhmhubh/Dfest2012Video - Medium.m4v

Way back, last year...
http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23836&highlight=GSRBC


And to catch up.....
http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23836&highlight=GSRBC


http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26352&highlight=GSRBC


Been to car shows, here there and every where with it and had a lot of fun and raised a good amount of $ for the dogs. The Bug spent the last month on the mainland going to car shows and I picked it up 2 days ago.... and then, well..... I was not home for 5 minutes and........

Now I may have a bug of my own, but that's another story


We sold tickets yesterday under dry cover at one of the sponsors, The Super Store where we sold another $780 in tickets and got just over $180 in spare change donations.

Will be heading out shortly for the last ticket sales and the draw is at 3PM, so some body is gona win a real cool restored Bug:2_thumbs_up_-_anima BTW, last years winner donated the car back, this year the winner has to keep it!

 

Good luck Tedy. I've had one square back and two early VW bugs. Oldest was a 1957 in the 60's. That was a rare car in central Illinois back then.
All were our everyday family cars. I really enjoyed those early VW beetles. Kinda would buy one as nice as those in your driveway if the price was right.... Cheap!

 

I miss my bug, had a little red one I painted my self (just awful) but I loved it enough to rebuild it after hammering a telephone pole one winter. Of course I put in a drop front beam and renotched the tortion bars then put a 2200 heavy jug twin carb crate motor with Porche 912 transaxle. Should have kept that sucker. It would hang with a Corvette through the first two gears and would lift the front tires off the ground out of the gate...so much fun!

 

That sounds like something you would build Dewey! I'll bet it was a fun ride. All I had were the stock sick lawnmower engines. Got super fuel mileage and even went camping with ours.
What's amazing with all the VW's of every type, beetles, vans, etc. there seem to be very few left on the roads. Two bikers near us rip them apart for the running gear and parts to build rat trikes. Between those and all the wrecked dune buggies I guess many are gone.