11,000 miles in a 30 yr old VW Beetle?

Lol. You guys are reading my mind.

I've been searching for 65-73s. 12v, manual, and carbed; trying to keep it simple. I can't even imagine trying to run an A/C compressor on one of them; the 308 probably loses more HP when you turn the A/C on than the Bug has in total. Going to Florida in March should be no problem. CA in June though I figure we'd have to time it so we cross into the desert out west at night, maybe take the "northern" route on 80, through wyoming, etc. then cut down across Nevada. Come of out the mountains in early evening and drive through the night.

I have an old cassette player out of the Jeep, for ~$120 I could throw in a CD player and some speakers though. Might experience "America" more if limited to AM/FM (and the 3 cassettes I own), but I might end up killing someone too after 3 hours of static in the middle of nowhere...

Lol, my co-conspirator has a 67 Camaro that for the last two months I've been trying to con him into replacing with, you guessed it, a 70s Caddy convertible. He wont go for it though, hence the new mission on affordable gas mileage. Should I be worried that Dr. Who and I have are running similar thought processes here?

You must be able to stash a ton of stuff in a Beetle b/c I feel like some of these sellers are still smoking what they got. The thing is essentially a POS, and after pumping out 21 million of them, the notion of collectibility is a bit deranged. I'm trying to find one that's not too ratty, something that you'll be pleasantly surprised if it makes the drive home. So far the market is mostly extremes though, restored or bushes growing through the floorboards.

I'll find that special girl in due time. It is starting to get a bit cold though here in NJ; sooner would be better than later.

 

And another thing, California, Washington, and Oregon are literally hoarding all of the Beetles. Damn you left cost. Snagging one out there jacks the price up ~$1000 by the time you get it back to NJ, keep in mind, that's like 70% of the current budget...