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Road tripping in my buses is one of the main things I live for. I feel my best when I have mrsfig at my side and we're heading for the horizon on another bus trip. Even driving to Vaalplasie on the weekend gets me feeling this way.
I used to freelance as a motoring journalist and each month I'd have another new car to drive for a week or 10 days. I got to drive everything, from economy hatchbacks, through sports cars, bakkies and 4x4s to big executive sedans. As much as I loved driving all the new stuff, I was never sad to hand them back. When I got back behind the wheel of The Ratmobile (75 Fleetline panelvan) after giving a new test car back, it always felt like at had returned home and brought a smile back to my face.
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Kaapse Kombi Kult
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." -- Henry Ford
Definitely road tripping in the bus, it’s also what I live for. After having a great trip and knowing my bus went so well puts more than a smile on my face.
After getting back from our trip now in December I had to spend a week in Midrand, and used this atrocious hired car, a Chev Aveo. When I got back down on Friday evening Tonia and myself packed the bus and were off for the weekend, I can’t tell you how nice it felt to be back in the kombi, I feel so at home with it.
I love it when my DC does some some work. Whether hauling 800kg of tiles or moving some vintage scooters or just taking the rubbish to the dump, its great to know that its being used for what it was built.
Drives much better loaded too.
Got a thumbs up from a guy driving a new Subaru Forester this morning!
Dude was so fixated on my Beetle that he had to brake hard as the car in front of him slowed down!
The two secrets to success: 1) Don't tell everyone everything that you know
Watching my twin daughters using the bug as a playground and loving it.
Especially liking their preference for the bug over the 'go faster' version Forester.
Listening to my old man telling me I am nuts to consider a beetle as a fun drive, then spending the afternoon today walking around it reminiscing about his (then new) '63 from back in the day.
And especially the unholy racket from the rear.
Adolf and Ferdinand are alive and well, brainstorming in Vegas.......Elvis is serving drinks.
driving mine home the day i got her. decided to see how well 4 drums work at stopping from 100kph (considering i was used to the beefy stoppers on my old GTi) and she dived hard right and didnt do much stopping. big smile and thought "theres still plenty of character here for me to find"
Ryan Marshall
An ingenius solution to a problem that should have never existed in the 1st place
