| Author | Message | ||
     Teddagreek |
I've been into AC VW's since I was a 13.... I remember riding in my friends restored 11 window kombi, If we ever got peaced by some douche we'd return with middle fingers and beer cans.. Despite how right or wrong the war was... The deplorable treatment and Mind F**king our service men had to endure disgusts me..  | ||
| Blake |
I'm with the bastard. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
And here is a motorcyclist view of Iowa's Wadena rock festival.Click:http://frontpage.cdc.net/scottmac/1970IOWA.HTM | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
My first car was a 75 VW Beetle. I'm still partial to AC. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
The deplorable treatment and Mind F**king our service men had to endure disgusts me.. Absolutely! That mindset is still prevalent today. In the current leadership.  | ||
| 86129squids |
My first car was a '73 Super Beetle. I was 16, my grandpa- "Pop" bought it for me after I wadded up my Suzuki TS125. I "Customed" it out, with 200 watts sound and 2 10" polypropolyne subs, etc., backlit. All my buddies in Hermitage, Donelson, Lebanon and Mt. Juliet had custom bugs. My greatest car wish is an early convertible Karmann Ghia body dropped onto a hotted up Porsche motor and chassis. Early VW's were 6 volt AC, IIRC? I know that you could buy an accessory A/C unit that mounted to the passenger side windows. I'd love to fiddle with the early split-window cars. Kubelwagen? Schwimmwagen? Dammit Jeremy I've geeked out back to when Ferdinand Porsche and Adolph Hitler talked about making a people's car. Heck, now I gotta go look at my old HotVW issues in storage. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
HotVW and VW Trends were ALL I read in HS for moto mags. I ran with about 6 guys that all had VWs. Mine had 4 into 1 with glass packs. I drove it for 4 years putting 30,000 miles and drove it for two years in college. I STILL want to Baja out a bug.   It MUST be yellow though. Just like my first one! I still remember Caroline Chesbrough's convertible baja with giant megaphone. That thing was awesome! | ||
| 86129squids |
GGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!! SHWEEEEEEETTT!!!!!! I had a good buddy with a built bug who could beat a supercharged Mustang in the 1/8 mile, mebbe in the 1/4. Buells and Beetles To Buelltoberfest!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time the rides and routes, pass as conditions allow. Beetles can stop by Dave's/notdaves and piss them off by parking. Whereever. Spend some $$$ and shit they'll be happy. Heck, i hijakkked the thread. | ||
| Crusty |
I guess the Amish are a bunch of low life assholes, too. After all, they don't believe in war or violence, reject most of the consumeristic hype that's thrust upon the world, and they dress by their own codes. Hey, I know; let's start a thread where we can all say hateful and rude things about each others' religion! Isn't this what the new spirit of Badweb is becoming? (Message edited by Crusty on August 22, 2009) | ||
| Blake |
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| Reepicheep |
I helped a buddy work out some issues with an air cooled VW camper. I was amazed at how similar a motor it was to my Buell... The VW was just less reliable  | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
There is a far cry difference between wanting peace and being a "hippie". Pretty sure the amish don't spit on soldiers returning from war. Pretty sure the amish don't blow up police stations and "wish they could do more". Pretty sure the amish don't espouse the benefits of collectivism, the socialist state and confiscation of personal wealth. The amish may smoke dope occasionally. I don't know. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
If we are going to compare "hippieism" to "baptist" or "judaism", please explain to me three things: 1) What does it mean to be a "hippie"? 2) What are the benefits of being a "hippie"? 3) What benefit to society are "hippies"? | ||
| Patches |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie | ||
| Bigblock |
WOW! Blake, too. You guys have some serious issues, I'll go play elsewhere. I thought this was a music thread, that's my whole point. I don't know anyone ever spit on a soldier, most of the old hippies I ever met WERE soldiers. You guys are disturbed. You seem to be aggravated about some "urban legend" idea of hippies, some myth. Were you spit on by a hippie, Ft? How about you, Blake? Your mindset is indicative of the disease infecting our country. War is doing nothing for us now but draining our tax dollars. Giving money to illegal aliens, and war. Both of 'em, real bad ideas. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Love me some VeeWees had 4 Beetles, One Fast back, and A vert ghia that never made it out of the pieces stage. Next on the list would be a Baja thing or a Manx Buggy. Easy to work on, stupid azz reliable (when put together right) and the adult version of a go cart. Hippies and Hillbillies, my entire family. I am the only 'yankee' though I live on the NW coast. At least the Ozark side of the famdamily works for everything they get. They still got their issues, but at least they didnt try and wrap a dope filled blanket of 'LOVE' around the world and think that if we all sang kumbaya wars would end, poverty would stop, equality be everywhere if everyone just wished hard enough. ummmm yeah. Granted my basis of HATE on hippies is from my family, being as everyone of them that I have ever met, was a certifiable whack job with worthless slacker drug tendencies. Your results may vary, but nothing I have seen of the era on TV seems to contradict it. PS I was a summer of love baby, so if you dont like my attitude, it could be caused by some chemical imbalance I got from all the pot that mom smoked. Cant we all just get along....? maybe not. The 60s psychedelica was a great time, I mean it really had to be, look at Charles Manson and his 'family' | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Giving money to illegal aliens...real bad idea We at least agree on one thing. Funny thing is that you can't separate Woodstock from hippie. Now you want to talk Jimi Hendrix live at the Monterey, and I'm there. War is a necessary evil. Unless you side with Charlie Sheen, war came to us. Once it does, we MUST pursue it until the enemy finds the pursuit of war so vile that he gives up and pursues it no more. We had that chance in Vietnam, but public opinion was swayed, mostly by protesters, activists, and dare I say "hippies", such that the pursuit of victory was terminated. The Viet Cong leadership even stated that had we pursued our advance, that they would have been unable to continue. We chose to give "peace a chance" and elected to lose a winnable war. These are the same Berkley Academia, "blame America first", progressives that are now running the nation. Funding illegal immigration ISN'T the war mongers. It's the hippies. | ||
| 86129squids |
"And it's up against the wall redneck mother Mother who has raised her son so well He's thirty-four and drinkin in a honky-tonk Just kickin hippies asses and raisin hell"  Republicans are always 100% right Democrats are always 100% wrong Hate you, hate me, blame that guy, start a new thread about it. "Dittos" all around. Dammm Jeremy, love you man, hope you get a good bike soon, mellow a little... "Your mindset is indicative of the disease infecting our country. War is doing nothing for us now but draining our tax dollars. Giving money to illegal aliens, and war. Both of 'em, real bad ideas." +1! War- HOOAH- what is is good for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING (say it again) However- I am all for poppin a cap in jihaddist nutjobs, all day long. Defending our country is different than what Cheney's shrub did in getting us mired in this Middle Eastern mess we're in now. At least with Obama the concept of "diplomacy" is back in fashion again... I dearly hope that one day our mindsets can develop and nurture civil civic dialogue between different points of view. NO MORE of this polarized crap we see all too often, here and elsewhere. I, and all youn's, have better things to do and say. Can't we all just get along? Heck, that's something a hippie might say... | ||
| Slaughter |
Why oh why do people pick-and-choose the era and music and then tie them together. Folk music IS great stuff. Hendricks was a puke-choking dead rocker. I'd hate to think that the whole era is defined by what was a hippie - much as I'd hate to hear that today's folks will be defined 40 years hence by (c)rap music, Michael Jackson, "reality" TV and urban gangs. YES they all are facts - but they don't define everybody despite how they're focused on by the media. | ||
| 86129squids |
Oh yeah- we were talking about VW's too. Forgot to mention I once had a 1970 Transporter. Took a trip in it with a friend once- we removed the middle bench seat and threw down a futon mattress to nap on. That turned out to be too hot, so I figured out I could hang my camping hammock diagonally from the rear hatch hinge up to the forward seat belt loop. THAT was kewl and compfy, hanging in my hammock, traveling down the highway. We went to visit my friend's mom who lived in a commune in the Ozarks- East Wind Community. Stayed a few days, then headed back home in the Bus. On the way back we got to see the Nashville date for the 2nd Lollapalooza at Starwood, which had Alice in Chains, then Primus as the closing headliners. Watched several beer cup bonfires burn during the Chains set. Good times. Guess I was a quasi-hippie once... | ||
| Teddagreek |
This is my 64 I got 7yrs ago. She isn't as pretty but she still turns heads.. I've owned 9 ACVW's... My daily driver for darn near 4 year years, until I had kids and Then I bought my Big Ass dodge RAM to keep them safe..  I have a much older half brother who is a Vietnam veteran.. I have a second cousin who cooked his noodle on dope the army gave him.. Last I heard he was going to a home after his parents passed.. I've heard it first hand, had it in history, read books and seen many documentary's Any way you cut it right or wrong it, the War was a Mess.. I will say most of people I've talked to and the Old Core Marines I've served with... Consensus I've experienced for the most part is we shouldn't have been there but if they had to do it all over they would still gone.  | ||
| Teddagreek |
Most the people at Woodstock weren't hippies but boomers coming to age having a good time.. I'm sure they had posers back then too..  | ||
| 86129squids |
Amen, Ted. What you said. GAWD I'd love to have that 'vert! Talk about a chick magnet... | ||
| Just_ziptab |
I thought hippies was just a newer name for beatniks..........  | ||
| Xb12xmike |
I once owned a 68 squareback. I loved that beast. As a teenager, I had a friend whose parents had '64, '68 and '71 bugs. I learned to drive in them. | ||
| Fast1075 |
Double Amen, Ted and Brad. I really wanted to go...to see and hear the show.... I was no Hippie...Hippies took acid and didn't bathe...I was a long haired redneck that loved music....now....I'm a mostly bald redneck....and I still love music. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Somebody somewhere in twenty years will wax pathetic about today and call it the good ol' days. Back when.... every generation casts off the trends of the past, maybe doesnt do any better, but they at least should step away and swing the pendulum the other direction. | ||
| Rubberdown |
I got my first taste of making love in a late 60's Squareback Varient after a Moody Blues concert.  | ||
| 86129squids |
Rubberdown: BONUS. VW's are conducive to good rendezvous, good to butter a bisquit. And again. | ||
| Xbpete |
I am one Woodstock attendee with long hair that still love the music, hell the lifestyle was great and in 1970 I turned in my love beads for some great green outfits I could wear in the jungle as I merrily aimed and fired.. lots of good times ... Ft--- Jeremy Take your fly and ride and your prejudice about ANYONE and ride it up your arse |
