Whats your scariest moment in a cal-look bug?
Black Sheep:
Reading DKK Fred's story reminds be of of a time when I was only a mere pup of 18 , I was giving a mate at work a lift home in my first 67 .
It was summer and it had just stopped raining after a short shower , coming up to a railway bridge which climbed up on a sharp right hander and then down again to the left following the track , having just fitted my first pair of sway aways and koni's to the front beam and being keen to see how much better my car handled ::) I went a bit quicker than usual ::)
The car started to feel a bit light climbing into the first bend , by the time I had crested the bridge the back of the car had overtaken me and we were facing the wrong way still spinning the car continued in its own little pirouette until we had gone a complete 360 on top of the bridge straightened up and continued down the left hander with no fuss at all .
With no real surprise my friend declined my offer of a lift the next day . I still go over that bridge from time to time and cant believe I managed to do that without touching the walls or hitting a car coming the other way .
the upside of my experience was that lowering the front didn't help it go around wet bends with a full height rear end ;)
youngnstudly:
I was rushing to get to trade school one day and was going a little faster than usual. I caught a break and got behind an 80 year old woman turning left at a green light. In order to "catch" her at the light, I had to speed up and "bumper up" to her car, and that's when the trouble began! The light turned yellow and she SLAMMED on the brakes while just beginning to go through the crosswalk of the intersection. She stopped on the second line of the crosswalk (while the light is still YELLOW!!!! >:() and "BOOOMMMM!"....I slid right into the back of her car at 10 or 15 miles per hour with those little 145 tires completely locked up! My head bounced off the windshield and ended up leaving a spiderwebbed crack all the way across the drivers side. She told me that she never stops for that light when it turns yellow but she just "froze up" this time! I managed to push the apron and hood back a few inches, both fenders were pushed as well, and the bumper was the only thing that didn't get damaged. Her car wasn't damaged at all!
The best part about it was the fact I threw a German hood on the car and "cobbed" everything back together (so I could drive the car), and 2 weeks later my coworker decided to "burnout" in reverse while parallel parking in front of my car. You guessed it, he plowed right into the same spot where I just had the accident, except this time it was really f$%ked up! I ended up getting $1800 from his insurance. My dad and I put the car in the shop on a Friday afternoon, tore it apart, stretched the apron back out, did the bodywork on the fenders, and primed everything by Saturday night. Sunday morning the car was completely reassembled (with wet primer ;D) and my hood latch now functions better than new. As you can see in the "before" photo, the car had already been hit in the front before I bought it (as indicated by the turn signal location on the drivers side fender. The primer was still fresh from my first accident when I got hit the second time. Luckily everything worked out great in the long run!
-Andy
Fastbrit:
First test drive in my '54 rag-top after I'd put it on a '67 'pan. Two miles from home, engine quit, I look in the rear view mirror to see smoke pouring out of the rear vents. Fuel line had come off and ignited... That sure made me break out in a sweat! ::)
Bewitched666:
My moment was after my first dragrace with slicks and after i got home i was to lazy to take them off and next day i had to go to school and drove the car with slicks in the rain.
At a crossing i took off and the car went sideways nearly hitting the curb and other cars parked but i managed well and didnt hit anything.
After that scary moment i drove like a bitch to school and after school took the slicks off immidiately,haha 8)
Stephan32:
Hi,
Doing my favourite thing in the late 90's taking my beetle out for a drive on the country lanes.
Going uphill taking it left on a nice wide corner allmost 90 degree. ( my favourite corner)
As i nailed it in 2nd gear to get the car sideways I lost 2nd gear, just about when the car started to step out...
I was passenger from then on and spun the car upteen times and ended up facing the traffic
the wrong way round... luckily the man behind me was my brother on his Bike.
When I said what happened to my gear box he just said: Mate, your reaction was about a second to slow 8)
No damage just a lesson, no matter how well you think you can drive sometimes it is beyond your influence....
Cheers Stephan
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