With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

long live...the new beetle?

2009 June 07 23:42

I'm rapidly converging on buying a Volkswagen New Beetle as the replacement car for the Escort. Here was our parking area as I was working on the old Beetle this afternoon:

My project car on the right, of course, and the New Beetle that we're renting to test-drive on the left.

It doesn't look bad, sitting by the house, I have to say:

Oh, and it has a great feature. An auxilliary input to the stereo:

So you can plug the Sirius receiver straight into the radio, select "aux", and play without having to worry about the dumb FM transmitter. Cool!

Oh, and far as the old Beetle goes, I'm waiting for a set of pushrods to continue with the engine. But I also need to remove and seal the gas tank, so to day I drained the old gasoline out of the tank so that I can remove it safely.