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Max

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Nov 6, 2009, 6:38:38 PM11/6/09
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I've just been reading the article about the stolen 65 Bus that was
found after 35 years.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/california.stolen.vw/index.html

Where were you in 1974?

I was still in high-school, driving my 1970 convertible bug.

Max

Randy

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Nov 6, 2009, 7:27:45 PM11/6/09
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first year of college. Drove a 59 bug and a kawasaki 500 mach III.
Most of the 70's and quite a bit of the 80's are a little hazy to me.

Randy

P.J.Berg

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Nov 6, 2009, 8:34:36 PM11/6/09
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In -74 I was ten, living with my mother.

J.
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P.J.Berg

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Nov 6, 2009, 8:36:33 PM11/6/09
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On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:27:45 +0100, Randy <rjma...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> first year of college. Drove a 59 bug and a kawasaki 500 mach III.
> Most of the 70's and quite a bit of the 80's are a little hazy to me.

Sounds good to me. #80)


J.

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> Randy
>
> On Nov 6, 5:38 pm, Max <max_welton...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I've just been reading the article about the stolen 65 Bus that was
>> found after 35 years.
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/california.stolen.vw/index.html
>>
>> Where were you in 1974?
>>
>> I was still in high-school, driving my 1970 convertible bug.
>>
>> Max
>

Jim Ed

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Nov 6, 2009, 9:26:14 PM11/6/09
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I was a Junior in high school.
Two years later I got a 1957 VW microbus.
I wrecked it and then I got a 1964 VW microbus. The previous owner
was an art student that had painted cosmic paintings on it for a good
grade in his art class.
On the front of it it had what resembled a WW II Japanese flag with
the rising sun being elcipsed by the moon.
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On Nov 6, 5:38 pm, Max <max_welton...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Tony W

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Nov 7, 2009, 4:48:40 AM11/7/09
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I was in highschool and I road a 1964 Honda CL72. I had the oldest and
most beat up bike at my school but it was mine. Back then I could only
dream about owning a bug...

What sucks about that story is the insurance company is getting it and
will sell it at auction for top dollar...

Tony

Jan Andersson

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Nov 7, 2009, 6:43:46 AM11/7/09
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As I recall, I was vacationing in Spokane, Washington... I spent most of
my time drunk off my ass, but I do remember this one fun night when me
and a couple of my friends spotted a 65 VW hippy bus sitting in the dark
of the night, and we decided to hotwire it and take it out for a
joyride....


:)

Nah, in 74 I was wetting my diapers and eating sand.

Bill Leary

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Nov 7, 2009, 8:00:47 AM11/7/09
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"Max" <max_we...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I'd been out of high school a year and was driving a hand-me-down from my
father (and Oldsmobile F-85). I'd buy my first VW, a 1964 bug, a year
later.

- Bill

dave AKA vwdoc1

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Nov 7, 2009, 10:40:23 AM11/7/09
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Driving my yellow '67 Beetle Convertible to college. <g>

One out of many daves

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John Stafford

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Nov 7, 2009, 3:48:34 PM11/7/09
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Randall

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Nov 7, 2009, 8:07:05 PM11/7/09
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I was driving a yellow deuce coupe in Visalia and taking on all comers.
The jawing with my nemesis Bob Falfa starts 1:00 minute into the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TThH_6kmB7o
-- John Milner (My computer is in the shop so I am using Randall's)

P.S.
It is an urban legend that I was killed in a head-on collision with a
drunk driver on a rural road on New Year's Eve 1965. That actually
happened to some wannabe named John Miller. The Toad sends his regards.

Max

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Nov 8, 2009, 12:06:50 PM11/8/09
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On Nov 7, 4:43 am, Jan Andersson <bugf...@spamtrap.rocketmail.com>
wrote:

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> Nah, in 74 I was wetting my diapers and eating sand.

And 35 years from now, we'll be right back where we started. :P

Max

thetone

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Nov 9, 2009, 10:21:51 AM11/9/09
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On Nov 7, 7:07 pm, Randall <rap...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Max wrote:
> > I've just been reading the article about the stolen 65 Bus that was
> > found after 35 years.
>
> >http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/california.stolen.vw/index.html
>
> > Where were you in 1974?
>
> > I was still in high-school, driving my 1970 convertible bug.
>
> > Max
>
> I was driving a yellow deuce coupe in Visalia and taking on all comers.
> The jawing with my nemesis Bob Falfa starts 1:00 minute into the video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TThH_6kmB7o

> -- John Milner (My computer is in the shop so I am using Randall's)
>
> P.S.
> It is an urban legend that I was killed in a head-on collision with a
> drunk driver on a rural road on New Year's Eve 1965. That actually
> happened to some wannabe named John Miller. The Toad sends his regards.

Two years out of college and driving my first car, a 1964 Beetle with
no heat.

"Girls don't pay . . . guys pay!" (Candy, to The Toad, 1962)

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