on looking at the number of *ahem* enthusiasts in here, and the amount of pride and effort put into these cars (yes I know ratdriver speaking,,, but one day I will have enough $), I cant help but wonder what are your plans for the future of your children (cars that is)?

so many 'resto's' are sold on in good faith, yet these cars often end up neglected or on sold to yards as trade in's etc when the owner surrenders to their 'new n' shiny' urges. It is sad when one can see a car which was once loved, sitting all alone in a wreckers yard in amongst the crappy corollas and sigmas. All tatty and neglected, the once lusterous shine faded away.

how are you planning on preventing this from happening? have you made provision in ur will for storage rental for the next milenium? are you planning on buying up some land so you can have a big pit to be dug? are you planning on coming back to haunt your car?lol. Or do you have a trust fund whereby ur estate has a clause attached: be nice to my cars or u will get nuffin (I know they can do it for beloved pets... why not a car)....

not being morbid here, just thought it an interesting bit o' chit chat :thumb

My son is not interested in any way shape or form in VW's. Daughter wasn't but having come on some cruises and met VW people is starting to like them, to the point that if she could get a cheap auto beetle she would have one. So the answer is, if she gets her manual licence (before I cark it), I will probably leave it to her - complete with instructions in what to do if she no longer wants it. That I will have to think about.

She has helped in some of the work on the car and knows what it means to us, so hopefully it will go to a loving home.

I plan on being buried in my car, Viking style. Save on a coffin too.

We have bought the 2 bugs for the daughters to have as first cars - daughter #1 will be driving next year and buy the 69 bug off us as her first car. She is ultra keen on them and already enjoyed her first VW day rally.

Daughter #2 will be driving in about 3 years so I have that time to then get the '60 a new engine and clean it up ready for her to buy off us.

By then....I will have successfully passed the VW attitude to my kids - 'the circle of life'. Then......I might have found my splitty or Thing....sigh....

i'd get me carcass strapped into the passenger seat, and ride shotgun and spook some freaks out

i hav detailed instructions with sketches and computer generated models that will be left to my next of kin as to how to finish my Oval should i die before its completion.

first in best dressed with mine.
Don't really care who gets them just as long as they don't go to a scrap yard.

all other investments go to the daughter.

The cars arn't worth taking back to the States thats why i say first in gets them.
Ohh it will be in the papers too

everytime i spend more money on the project or get lost in the shed working on the project or am tempted to take a shortcut on said project i can often be heard to mutter ' oh well at least it will still be good when quita ( the daughter) gets its). i hope she appreciates all the suffering done in her name lol.

It is said the good die young, so I guess I'm immortal anyway.

The boys have got dibs on my bike, I think the kombi will be gracefully retired.

All my kids have chosen what cars they want of mine.
Rob...

now wen i said no next o' kin... and giveaway etc, that is if I had any car of value, as it stands my baja is really not worth the jail sentence kiddies, even with a shortening of sentence due to an insanity plead.... really i like living and I don't want my brakes tampered with (they are dodgey enough on thier own already)....:o ... k .. get it.... raa-aat!

well I might donate mine to the Wolfsburg Museum, They probably haven't got one, and my name will be perpetually linked as the donor......
S

we'll I have so much alcohol in my system i've become aliving pickle and will never die!


"There's too much blood in my alcohol system."

well....my daughter is only 4 , as for my wife, she doesn't share my passion.....so i'd say at this stage unsure of what could happen if anything happens.....i will probably leave it for my wife to keep untill my daughter is old enough to drive the oval and decide what to do...by then the car will be...mmm....60 ...61 year old, so that should fund her a new car by then if she doesn't want to keep it....