Please sign up with today's sponsor Aura to get two free weeks with this link: aura.com/vwbugs Protect yourself from hackers and cyber threats, decrease your digital footprint. Which Beetle Adventures would you go on? The beloved VW Bug has stories upon stories throughout the decades, and many of those stories are the travels and adventures that this car has gone on. Family, friends, marriages, loved ones, this car is probably has the most adventures than any other car out there! Maybe I am being biased, haha =)
I have 1968 and my daughter has a 1974. I do the 90% of the maintenance and repairs on her 74, thus making adventures easier. That said, she is fearless doing spontaneous adventures. She is a college student and so far on this summer break she has insisted on visiting all of her friends from school before summer is over. This will include trips all over northern California; 100 - 500 miles. She still has many to go, but that's what her "the joy of beetle adventure" looks like. She loves that car.
My wife and I drove from Indiana to So. Cal in a 74 super. And believe it or not we were towing her Opal Kadett. The REALLY hairy areas were downtown St. Louis, up and over the clover leafs during rush hour, and then I drove it up over the mountains in Flagstaff during a snow storm...again, her Opal hanging on behind stuffed with all belongings. No real problems...but total brown-pants fear. But we made it to Orange County and pulled into a taco stand parking lot at our destination...and the hitch came loose just before I parked it!
Mine's a Ghia, but same thing really....It's my daily driver, so I you could say go on adventures with it every day . I've also done longer trips in it - to the Studebaker museum in South Bend and CAD museum in Indiana and am going to visit the Audrain in RI this summer. Also visit some out of state bike parks - my MTB fits inside - and it always raises eyebrows when you drag a fully out of a tiny old car amongst the trucks and SUVs!
I took my 66 bug that i just did my first enginge rebuild on over the swiss alps ( 2000m ) last year. Luckily it without any mehcanical problems, except the generator bushes sometimes not making contact.
Can't imagine driving cross-country in my '69 Bug - unless I had a month to do it. And even then I would be facing the return drive. Coastal drives are great and so are drives out into the countryside - no mountains needed.
This weekend in Huntington Beach is a vintage car show & Sunday Huntington pier is bus on the pier! I was planning, still planning on both but I’m in the hospital! Horrible time for kidney stone not to pass!
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Which Beetle Adventures would you go on? The beloved VW Bug has stories upon stories throughout the decades, and many of those stories are the travels and adventures that this car has gone on. Family, friends, marriages, loved ones, this car is probably has the most adventures than any other car out there! Maybe I am being biased, haha =)
I have 1968 and my daughter has a 1974. I do the 90% of the maintenance and repairs on her 74, thus making adventures easier. That said, she is fearless doing spontaneous adventures. She is a college student and so far on this summer break she has insisted on visiting all of her friends from school before summer is over. This will include trips all over northern California; 100 - 500 miles. She still has many to go, but that's what her "the joy of beetle adventure" looks like. She loves that car.
My wife and I drove from Indiana to So. Cal in a 74 super. And believe it or not we were towing her Opal Kadett. The REALLY hairy areas were downtown St. Louis, up and over the clover leafs during rush hour, and then I drove it up over the mountains in Flagstaff during a snow storm...again, her Opal hanging on behind stuffed with all belongings. No real problems...but total brown-pants fear. But we made it to Orange County and pulled into a taco stand parking lot at our destination...and the hitch came loose just before I parked it!
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Mine's a Ghia, but same thing really....It's my daily driver, so I you could say go on adventures with it every day . I've also done longer trips in it - to the Studebaker museum in South Bend and CAD museum in Indiana and am going to visit the Audrain in RI this summer. Also visit some out of state bike parks - my MTB fits inside - and it always raises eyebrows when you drag a fully out of a tiny old car amongst the trucks and SUVs!
I took my 66 bug that i just did my first enginge rebuild on over the swiss alps ( 2000m ) last year. Luckily it without any mehcanical problems, except the generator bushes sometimes not making contact.
Wow through the Alps?? That sounds awesome. Would you like to tell your story?
My favorite is # 2 nice in the cost
I have 1959 beetle 6 volts i just go around my neighborhood to enjoy it!!!
Hi from the UK. I would love to do a coast coast and the coastal route - preferably in an Oval! Maybe one day!
Can't imagine driving cross-country in my '69 Bug - unless I had a month to do it. And even then I would be facing the return drive. Coastal drives are great and so are drives out into the countryside - no mountains needed.
From Brooklyn to Woodstock in the summer of ‘69 in my 6-volt, ‘66 beetle convertible. ☮️
This weekend in Huntington Beach is a vintage car show & Sunday Huntington pier is bus on the pier!
I was planning, still planning on both but I’m in the hospital! Horrible time for kidney stone not to pass!
Old speed racers and the Cal Look are the best
Few weeks time we doing a 100 mile treasure hunt in our 67 bug.
To the coast for sure!
Cross county drive from Disneyland California to Walt Disney World Florida