Who
hasn't liked taking their VW out in the snow at night?!
Stig
Had a '68 Beetle in my early 20s.
After a night of bar hopping w many shots involved, and watching Apocalypse Now in a cinema pub, had a blast driving it like a bumper car, bouncing off snow banks and doing 360s in a school parking lot. There were 3 of us. All in the front. Don't ask me how someone sat in the middle. But it was probably safer for how I was driving, as we were so packed in we kept one another from being thrown around.
That car was practically indestructible. Flipped it upside-down after hitting an ice patch at 65 mph on I-84 in PA. At 3 am. Sober, but had bald tires w old shock absorbers (rode like a baby carriage--fun, but not stable). As it happened on a slight decline w snow and ice everywhere, that upside-down Beetle made a heck of a sled, sliding quite a ways before coasting to a stop. State trooper showed up and a couple truckers stopped, and we rocked that thing upright. Roof was now concave so I had to slouch a bit, but it started up so I drove it 3 ½ hours to get home after having been on the road for 10 hrs.) Had to hold the driver's door shut the whole time as the crinkled roof prevented it from closing.
A year later a bad mechanic set the points too tight and the engine blew, effectively killing the car.
PS I'm a much safer scooter/mc rider than I was a driver back then.
