70 Volkswagen Squareback

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Somethings missing

 

For that price, I hope it's the Bondo that's missing

 

This is what I learned to drive a stick in - same year, make and model. Owned by a co-worker/friend, who's folks bought it for him for HS graduation. Found out a few years ago that he went on to become a human-interest news reporter for the CBS TV and radio stations in San Francisco. He's now in NY. - Mike Sugerman.

 

Oh.................... the memories! Just my family and me, and my dark blue VW squareback, camped in the back lot of a VW dealership 300 miles from home.
Then days............ weeks......... maybe months, waiting in our local VW dealership customer repair area for another part to be repaired or replaced.
I don't remember which way those side vent louvers aimed, but mine had to be cut out and reversed direction louvers put in. Apparently my squareback was an early test model that failed it's tests.

Yes, I need this wagon!

 

Mike Zuckerman's parents must have hoped he would attract a thrifty young lady, in order to start a family with, since the thrifty wagon was already there. Only the house was missing (I guess, her parents were expected to help out with that). Other parents usually buy graduating sons something rather sportier, for attracting the fun-loving type girls

 

All my parents got me was a sign saying EXIT!Here's your sign!

 

Mike definitely wasn't a 'car guy' like me. His parents picked the VW Squareback for economy, space and reliability. He would be attending UCSB that next fall. Drive home is 100 miles. That also happened to be where my then GF was going. Sort of surprised I never ran into him there.....(but I wasn't up there all that much, really)

 

His parents picked the VW Squareback for economy.

As I've looked back I have no idea why I bought cars like two different VW beetles, a squareback VW, a Renault, and others when high test fuel was as little as 19.9 to usually no more than 32.9 a gallon.
I only worked less than five miles from home for five years then around 20 miles each way after that. Even many weekend and vacation camping trips were mostly under 75 miles.
I must have been saving the planet before we knew it needed saved.

 

Vee Dubbs are easy- and fun to drive. My Renault "Le Car" (the first thing I did after buying it was to remove that stupid decal) was comfortable and pleasant to drive. So, why not? I didn't think about how inexpensive fuel was, back then. My first thrifty car was that '60 Comet I bought for $75 from an older lady who filled up at the filling station I apprenticed in, during highschool. I didn't have thrift in mind when I bought it and she didn't mention selling it. I asked her first, because the car fascinated me. I loved how much charachter it had. Too bad, it had so much rust damage. Otherwise, I'd be kicking myself in the butt for getting rid of it

 

I believe the reasons I got those little cars were mostly they were different at the time and were fun to drive. At the same times I was driving some old worn out Buick, Oldsmobile, or similar car that I'd buy for $100 or less.
The Comet Caliente with 289 was a decent looking and fast little car. My buddy always outran my 1965 Mustang 289. I think his had the turbo.
I'm thinking another friend's Studebaker Lark of similar year also had a hot 289 of their own.

 

It didn't have a turbo, Sir. This is what it had: