Topic: Truer words were never spoken involving motorcycles!

[hsas.69]

Very good read. But not all of us car guys are quite what he says.

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[mrbreeze]

Exactly!! That's why I said "my" preference. The world would be pretty weird if we all liked the same stuff!

[70CB750]

Ha, Audi, Volkswagen - did not like working on them either.  To get off a hub on Audi, I always had to borrow this 30 pound impact wrench, the regular one would not do it.

This guy at work asked me how much time to change spark plugs on VW bug, so I asked him if it is an old bug or new bug.  He says old, so I say 20 minutes with a beer break.

We started talking and I find out he means an old bug as before 2002 or whenever they released the new model.  So I looked it up and to change plugs on that bugger is very  labor intensive, not like the old Käfer.

My dad's first car was VW too - see the picture 

[Deltarider]

We started talking and I find out he means an old bug as before 2002 or whenever they released the new model.  So I looked it up and to change plugs on that bugger is very  labor intensive, not like the old Käfer.
My dad's first car was VW too - see the picture 

Ach so, the Kübelwagen. My father remembers them all too well. Whenever (between 1940 and1945) he saw one in the streets at a roadblock, he quickly steered his bicycle in a sidestreet as he didn't look forward to have the false identity documents discovered stacked in his bicycle side bags, documents to be delivered to jews in hiding (to give them a chance to escape through Belgium and France into Switzerland). He remembers these Kübelwagen had the red and white Nazi flag over the bonnet. I'm sure your dad didn't like red and white flags and had it removed. Ooops, don't mention the war, just don't mention the war.

[70CB750]

They stayed behind Wehrmacht and since the car production in East block was severaly lacking, they got a lot of use from late 40ties to early 70ties.

My dad was 12 when the war ended.