Volkswagen will bring back the VW van. Old hippies, how many have you owned?

[GulfCoast66]

64. My dad died young so I was not able to ask what he was thinking, but...

He was not a boomer. Born in the early 30s in the rural south. But bucked his fathers wishes and went to college for a degree in journalism with no parental support. Got there in a VW in the early 50's. All I remember him saying is how proud he was that he drove one that had a divider in the back window the 2nd year they were even sold in the US. God knows how he found one in rural Louisiana. Still do not know what the divided back window meant. He just always regretted he had not kept it. By the time I came along in the 60's he had a Carman Ghia. I guess some of my earliest memories are of the sounds of the engine when he was tearing it down and rebuilding it. He sold it around '70 because he was going to grad school for his PhD and thought he might need the money...always regretted it.

Ironically, one of my first cars was an 82 Sirocco. Rack and Pinion steering and it would go like a scalded cat. I will never own a car more fun to drive and I am eyeing a BMW now.

Yall have a nice evening.