We were just talking during the trip about the point Bob and the rest of you make. Even hardcore hot rod guys accept VW bugs as being pretty cool, most other imports do not share that respect it seems. I guess the reason is exactly what we have said, most of us have fond memories of one we owned in the past. My first car when I was 16 was a 57 oval window, all 36 HP of it. I beat that poor car to death and it never quit running.

As I mentioned, when Dan was 14 we bought a total of 8 bugs (this was back when they could be found for $ 25-$100 everywhere) and we built him one Cal Look bug out of all of those. Over the years he rebuilt it 4 times, at one time Porsche Lime green with flames, and at the end with suicide doors. He and Don also had a blue stocker they drove through a lot of high school.

All I have to do now is convince him to push it into a corner of the shop and cover it up until the RPU is really done and running.

Jim, you asked about the 49 Ford.....it's gone. It really had some rust issues and was a fordor we were converting to a tudor, so I talked Dan into letting me cut it up and get rid of it. We kept the good parts for future projects (motor, dash, good tudor doors, etc.) so it will be incorporated into something else some day. It just would have taken too much to make a decent car out of it,as opposed to starting with a cleaner one.

Don