Damn! I KNEW I'd be right SOMEDAY! Yeah, Farrar, I DRIVE all my cars. Have two others, both 95's - over 160,000 on each. Let's see, a '68, '83 and 2 - 95's. Average age 17+ years and average mileage 187,000+. The name of the game is maintenance. Dick --- Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Dick's right. The last "original Beetle" factory was > in Puebla, Mexico. > ATC did a story on it back in July. Here's a link to > the archived audio > of it. > http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1322473 > > And congrats on the VW, Dick! Far more impressive > than the Saturn I saw > with 400,000 on it. :) Got any other long-lived > vehicles? How about that > 1968 Dodge Dart that Joe Mannix drove? (That's my > OTHER dream car. I > anticipate flames.) > > BTW, I've been hired to sing/act in a local > production of "The Music > Man" (barbershop quartet music, anyone?), so I won't > make it to the > SEDOC. But many of you weren't expecting me, anyway. > Catch y'all some > other time. But I will tell those of you who could > stick around a little > longer after the get-together: Jeff Beck is playing > in Atlanta on the > 23rd. Should be a good show. I was planning to go, > so let me know how it > goes. :) > > Regards, > Farrar "Olin the Bass" Hudkins > > Dick Ryan wrote: > > Close, bu no cigar. It went out of production in > > Mexico. It was produced in the same factory as > the > > "new" bug, but on a different line. I know that > Brazil > > made the engines, but, in the last few years, I > THINK > > the cars were only assembled in Mexico. > > > > I still have my aircooled 1968 VW Type 3 > Squareback. > > Now has 340,000 miles on it. > > > > Dick > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=259538.3830715.5078802.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1712983/R=0/SIG=11u38u3s2/*http://hits.411web.com/cgi-bin/hit?pa ge=1374-105951838331032> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=259538.3830715.5078802.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1712983/rand=445649964> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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