Bink63 I miss my VDub Wabbit with a Stick Shift and my Honda CRX Stick...
Way back when I bought WV at a dirt cheap price and after repairing the brakes found it to be a really nice vehicle to own, it lacked AC which kinda suc** in Florida but the fact it sipped gas made up for that because as I have been told when it comes to money I am tighter then a pair of handcuffs on a cop killer.
Sadly a idiot not paying attention to where she was going rear ended my bug and totaled it out, her insurance cut me a decent check, but not enough to buy a new one.
Then I had a friend who was literally insane who owned VW we where driving west bound on Davie Blvd in Ft Lauderdale FL, he turned left onto SW 35 Ave at high speed and flipped the car on it's right side, if I remember properly there of 3 off us in the vehicle, totally stoned out of minds, we climbed out of the bug began rocking it finally flipping it up on it's wheels and took off before the fuzz showed up.
Now my friend had a problem, if his parents notice the effed up right fender he would be in a jam, he parked the vehicle in my garage so I could paint a new fender and after calling his parents to let them know he was spending a few days at my home.
That night he went out to find another fender.
As I stated being insane, him and another friend who out with him that night he removed and stole the right front fender off of someone else's bug, that is not a silent thing to do and it the woke up the family dog who began barking at him, he hit the dog in the head with a ratchet wrench and it yelped away, from what I was told the owner was yelling at the dog to shut up and get into the house.
I can only imagine the next morning what the dogs owner had going through his head when he noticed the fender of his bug was missing.
Back at my garage my friend removed the damaged fender I placed it in the back of my truck and headed over to Steego a provider of vehicle paint.
Now this was back before paint could be matched with a computer, a human had to pull out paint chips based on the vehicle and mix a match from the information on the color chart.
Back at my garage I gave the fender 1 coat of primer and 2 coat of color, blending the new paint with the old color.
It worked well, his parents didn't notice it or didn't want to see it, their child could do no wrong he was their only child.
But that attitude combined with his insanity didn't work well, a few years later he wrecked his new Honda 750 ending up paralyzed from the waist down, that was serious problem as being a good looking guy he was quite popular with females our age.
So one day he solved that problem, as I was informed he finished off a bottle of pain pills, rolled himself out to the pool and went in wearing a diving weight belt and a SCUBA tank, then went to sleep.
I didn't shed too many tears as a few years earlier I came home from work early and found him effing my wife.
Karma sucks.
