Back in my VW days in the 70's my buddy and I were going up to see a friend who lived about 30 miles away. Driving up the highway all of a sudden the throttle cable broke-as they're prone to do on Vdubs. There we were on the side of the road. The cable snapped up near the accelerator pedal, but the cable had sucked itself back into the tunnel. We had no tools and couldn't find anything to McGiver. I hadn't put the hood back on after the latest engine rebuild so my buddy got the bright idea to stand on the rear bumper and operate the carb linkage by hand while I drove and shifted. We drove all the way back to town like that! Crazy SOB ran the throttle wide open most of the way back! You should've seen the looks of some of the folks as we flew by with that maniac standing on the rear bumper and hanging onto the drip rail with one hand .