- 1. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:30:29 EDT
- I knew that! I used to own a '64 Beetle myself, and I tried to float it once! (Not on purpose.) I was driving around the Lancaster, PA area during a hurricane. That area has lots of rolling hills, an
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01353.html (8,208 bytes)
- 2. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:05:29 -0400
- Years ago my buddy and I were traveling down a dirt road and came upon a tree blocking the road. I told my friend to go around the tree. He pointed out the only way around was through the front yard
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01357.html (9,407 bytes)
- 3. RE: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:09:36 -0700charset="windows-1252"
- As the old joke has it: "What are the three most dangerous words in the English language?" "Hey, watch this!" Jim Algar
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01359.html (9,853 bytes)
- 4. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:19:05 -0400
- Never never ever will I follow you on a cruise to anywhere!!!! With info like that you are hereby consigned to "Tail End Charlie" for the rest of your natural born days. Larry At this exact moment in
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01360.html (10,237 bytes)
- 5. floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:35:39 -0700charset="iso-8859-1"
- I recall back in the seventies an issue of MAD magazine with a picture of a VW floating in a pond with the caption:"If Ted Kennedy had been driving a Volkswagon, he'd be president today!" Regards, Gl
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01362.html (7,377 bytes)
- 6. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:38:37 -0700charset="iso-8859-1"
- In Texas it's "hold my beer and watch this" Larry Miller it (that's what would the butter. pool water young
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01364.html (10,847 bytes)
- 7. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:59:22 EDT
- << Once were in the front yard doing about 20 MPH imagine our surprise when we saw the large in the ground swimming pool. Off the shallow end we went. We came to a stop in the deep end in about 5 fee
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01371.html (8,306 bytes)
- 8. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:21:42 -0400
- Well there was the time I was out with a bunch of friends in a Vega Kammback. We were cruising down back country dirt roads about 3 AM. It was December in WY. THere was a snow drift, about 3 feet hig
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01374.html (9,566 bytes)
- 9. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 12:25:57 -0500
- THAT'S THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01375.html (11,558 bytes)
- 10. RE: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:02:23 -0700charset="windows-1252"
- Larry said: "What can I say, I was 17." Once you've said that, no further explantions are necessary. (We've all) Been there! Jim Algar
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01380.html (8,408 bytes)
- 11. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:26:44 EDT
- << Boy genius, (that's me) told him the hedges are not a problem if you have enough speed. >> Isn't that the equivalent of a good' ol boy redneck's last words?: "Here, hold my beer an' watch 'this" -
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01384.html (7,839 bytes)
- 12. re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 00 14:44:42 EDT
- And in the South: "Hey y'all, Watch this!" One local guy has it on the back of his street/track car. Ed in NC ;-)
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01389.html (7,629 bytes)
- 13. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:54:27 -0700
- How about the night an Oregon State Trooper tried to give my dog a speeding ticket? I was on my way home from an MG function in my RHD Morris, when I got pulled over on a lonely stretch of back road.
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01390.html (9,307 bytes)
- 14. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:55:48 -0400
- 1966 - Night racing a Consumer's Gas (blue flame) VW bug flat out on a very dark unlit (but well practiced) cottage road. My copilot is on the stop watch and clipboard. Both of us are trying to pin d
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01407.html (11,170 bytes)
- 15. RE: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:33:20 GMT
- Here in the south we call it, "What's a rednecks famous LAST words" BOB ________________________________________________________________________
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01409.html (10,918 bytes)
- 16. Re: Floating a VW (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:24:22 -0400
- That reminds me of another, in the same Vega. After tuning up the car, I decided to go for a test run. Out the drive and out towards the golf course. About one block past my house there were no more
- /html/spridgets/2000-07/msg01417.html (10,490 bytes)
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