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With fuel injection and the associated electronic engine control they are getting fuel milage that was never possible on a carborated engine .Back then the only way you could have ever gotten 24 MPG on a Chevy 350 is if were going down hill .

Well if you're running 4WD Chevy or Ford full size pick ups that's about the best you can hope for .My old '72 F 250 with a 390 did that loaded or empty it really didn't care . Tom has a 4WD F250 with a 302 and he's lucky to get 8 out of it .One reason it sits and he drives his Ranger I'd imagine .

Back in the day they used to get 25-27 MPG .Seemed like a big deal when the average Chevy maybe got 15 . Now of days it's not such a big thing .Hell I got a full sized Merc that does that good on gas .Of course now of days the puddle jumpers are getting 35 plus .

Oh it was almost a sad day in the British empire the day VW almost bought Rolls Royce '98 I think .Come to think of it though I'd imagine we'd be a tad miffed if Yugo bought Ford or GM . They made the things for a short while in New Stanton Pa .Fact I came close to working on that plant .It...

Well on that I got skunked once myself .Pulled what I thought was a big mink out of a hole .Saw the stripe --too late .Peyew,yuck .:(

Geeze all this time I thought I was the only one that flogged the last breathe out of them .Guess not .

No conversation of VW should be complete without at least mentioning the infamous micro bus .During the late 60's they were everywhere usually with about 8- 10 barefoot hippies traveling to and fro with no praticular destination in mind . Looking back on those times they certainly were a hoot...

So there we were in the mountains of Colorado the last day of buck season .Been in those montains for ten days .8 inchs of new snow . About 5:30 AM I hear this noise coming up the old logging road ,VW ? No way but here he came ,waved a howdy as he went by camp and off he went .About a half hour...

One thing about the old Beetles .You don't have to worry about anti freeze in the winter .On the other hand in the winter you'd better wear your foul weather gear because the damned heaters never worked . Those little rascals would go in the snow though .