People wonder why I don't get a new car
I have a mid-60's VW Beetle since I was a teenager learning to drive. Stuff like this only makes me want to keep it more and more. I paid $300 for it when I got it and probably dumped $3000 in parts into over the 15+ years I've had it (most of that was getting a new interior installed). If someone steals it, whatever, I got my money's worth long ago.
Yeah, it doesn't get as good gas mileage as a modern vehicle, but its not bad either. And then, there is figuring in the energy and resources that would've been used building a new vehicle, and then the cost of disposing of the vehicle once it reaches end of life. So with that, it is probably greener in the grand scheme of things.
The thing is painted bright orange (It was originally painted like the "General Lee" from the 'Dukes of Hazard', painted it orange to get rid of the flag on the roof and to fix the heavily sun-burnt paint). Makes it so vary easy to spot in a parking lot as well as easy to spot by the police if it ever gets stolen.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
