MOPED ARMY

^cool, they do handle off road pretty well, great picture!

Not too bad, its lifted and running fox shocks 2.0 with coil overs. Also a pretty hopped up type 4 engine. Actually putting a clutch in it right now, started to not fully disengage during my last long trip all through California about 2500 mile trip.

Also have a 69 VW Sunroof Bus :) Honest²

Sadly I sold my first vw pretty recently, once I got a bus it was much more practical. Her name was black beauty.

not mine, but check it out,

I have a few acvws. Great summer cars, great winter cars but the salty roads here in ny kills them right quick. Rust is your constant enemy. Mine go to bed for the winter.

Lots of parts as well if interested. Been into the hobby for many years.

Haha! True.

But let’s be honest... the harley weekend guys riding to the bar have more plastic chrome on their ride than all of ours combined.

I had a 72 superbettle it was great but the undercarriage got weak and the car would shake at certain speeds. It had tons of miles on it and little rust. I did some minor bodywork to it and touched up with paint mixed at an auto parts store. I took the plastic off of the dash and it looked like a 60's car underneath. Found some seats that were mint. The thing that sucked about driving it was that everyone knew how slow they are and just wanted pass me at the first opportunity.

If you want one, try to find one that is as original and untouched as possible because if they have have too many knockoff parts on them they really become nightmares.

That's the notorious super beetle death wobble. Worn front bushings cause that.

I do still have a 72 Vert, Dan and I am in your neck of the woods. I will pull it out of the garage and get a pic for you, and this thread, which has turned to a pretty cool Air cooled VW Vibe for sure.

Well "quality" is a relative term and always has been, especially with air cooled vw's. They were never porsches and were never meant to be. I currently have the 72 Beetle, 3 mk1 rabbits and a rabbit pickup so I am familiar with the vw parts houses and I didn't say you couldn't get parts for them but the days of the German quality oem parts for these babies are long gone. I don't remember the last time I bought a bosch part that was made in Germany. There are still a few bits here and there of course and the internet has helped expose the last few parts stashes available but these days you just have to hope for the Brazilian and Mexican assembly line standards to come up but I doubt that will happen. Not when the vast majority of the parts being manufactured are destined for trailer queens and not daily drivers and the manufacturers are aware of this.

Yeah exacty, and I remember a time when EMPI were very good quality parts, now not so much. It's gotten to the point where you can't even pay for quality if you wanted to because no one else does and all the manufacturers have followed the pack in order to stay competitive.

The 76 is a good one for sure. I had two buses, a 76 and a 79, both weekenders. Is yours still fuel injected or did you switch to carbs? ..and yeah you can drive the crap out of the type 4 engine. That's the only one to have in a driver bus in my opinion.

Hmmm, it HAS been forever since I had an air cooled, I had no idea you could not get Bosch parts anymore...sad, but so many fewer on the road I guess it makes sense, MN had the unique issue of the body's disintegrating way before the mechanical components ever did. I knew of a wrecking yard out in the sticks, guy had wrecked/rusted VW of every description, acres of them. He sold semi loads of axles/trans-axles engines/cores/glass to guys from out west were the body's held up but everything else was worn out. When my buddy's and I were messing with these back in mid-eighties we would go out there and grab distributors, coils starters almost all oem stuff for stupid cheap, guy would let us go out and grab whatever, take a look when we came back to the house go "eh, ya got $40.00?" for what was several hundred dollars worth of stuff, he just liked that we were still driving them and fixing them ourselves. Those were the days. :)

I would honestly take my chances with used oem Bosch stuff, even if I had to clean it up some, just watched one of those "will it start after 30 yrs sitting vids on u-tube" and the guy bought a new distributor, points, condenser and coil, no dice, cleaned the old stuff including points, installed and it fired and ran, well! The quality is just not there, granted it is old-tech, but there is no demand for it anymore, knock offs are just that, knock them off the bench and leave them there. :)