While the one-two punch of some truly brutal weather and our beaming one year-old (rounded up to the nearest year, anyway) has kept Ludwig in the stable and us out of the outdoors most of the Winter, there's still really no shortage of things we can write about. To wit:
Below are photos I have unabashedly cribbed from the Omaha VW Club's archives, specifically from the 2004 Show-n-Shine at the outlet mall in Gretna. We take no responsibility for the quality of the pictures.
There's a crew like this at every ACVW gathering, I swear.
Poor Beetles have to put up with being painted such godawful colors.
Melissa and I drove and entered 02McDonald's 1960 Double Door (above; name unknown), as McDonald was trying to sell it, plus Ludwig wasn't quite up-and-running.
Double Doors (the term refers to the fact that it has cargo doors on both sides which can be opened up such that a well-trained child on a minibike could jump it right on through the bus) being somewhat rare and desirable, we had several interested parties and fielded a lot of questions, but nothing came of it. The bus was sold some months later to a buyer in the U.K.
Attention to anyone considering the case of splitty (1949-1967) v. bay window (1968-1979): splitties are no doubt more charming in an ugly duckling sort of way, but both of us having driven the DD and Noel, we unhesitatingly report that bays are waaaaaay better to drive in virtually all respects.
This was the raffle bus. The paint job was kind of sloppy, but the engine was brand new. If we'd won it, I imagine this you'd be reading "Ludwig & Mr. Mustard's Adventures" right now.
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