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"HeyBub" wrote:

Smitty Two wrote:

The original VW bug was inexpensive to buy, and relatively inexpensive
to repair. That is hardly the same as being reliable.

Yeah, but how many cars come with a tool kit? Admittedly, the tool kit
wasn't much. It consisted of a cylinder with two socket ends (which fit
virtually every nut on the car), two screwdrivers, a pair of pliers, and a
metal rod used to turn the socket cylinder.

There's a video floating aroung (Guiness Book of Records folks) showing a
crew removing a VW engine, moving the engine four feet from the rear bumper,
reinstalling the engine, then driving the bug away. In one minute, four
seconds.

A friend of mine is still driving around in an ancient VW microbus. He
keeps a spare engine on hand. When the one in the car goes out, he swaps
it, then rebuilds the broken one at his leisure. Last time he broke down
he was on the freeway about 20 miles out of town. He had another friend
bring him the spare and they swapped out the engine in a half hour by
the side of the road. I'll tell him he needs to speed it up a little.