Jim,
Welcome aboard!! Yes Gertrude brings back some memories for me also. My dad had a 1970 bright yellow bug. He was hospitalized and I flew home from college, took a taxi to the house, scrounged out the keys to the bug and taught myself to drive a stick so I could get to the hospital to see him. Thank goodness there was an empty school parking lot just down the street! After about 30 minutes, I felt confident enough to head to the hospital. Once there Dad asked me how I got there. When I told him I drove his bug he about jumped out of the bed. I think it stimulated his recovery and desire to get home!! I really miss that car.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "