Sort of not quite but yes. My dad had a beetle, which then got passed on to my older brother some years later and I helped him tinker with it quite a lot over the years. Went to Bugjam a few times with him/others - hence the screen name. Older brother eventually bought a much better condition beetle and swapped over all the go faster bits (1776 with twin dorlettos, alloy wheels etc) and gave me the original one which was now standard and had been off the road for a bit. Type three detectives quoted £1700 just for welding, which would then have had to have been followed up by an engine rebuild, paint and no doubt a whole heap of other things. It was the car that brought me home from the hospital when I was born! But reluctantly I broke it for spares
in retrospect I wish I'd put it in a lock up somewhere and paid £20 a month to store it until I wasn't a student and had enough money to restore it, but at the time it was sitting on mum and dads drive and I didn't have any spare money or think of the lock up idea.
So instead I've taken the Volvo apart on mum and dads drive some years later since I live in a flat with no driveway space
I'll definitely own a beetle at some point- that point being when I have a garage to keep it in!
Cheers,
S
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