Stupid questions

[Altritter]

And when you said blue, you reminded me of this one I shot in 2006.

That one appears to be a restoration, also. However, the color is clearly blue, as in [US Army] Infantry Blue, or [University of North Carolina Tarheel] Carolina Blue. I think something like that shade of blue was on '67 or '68 Bugs. The "Bahama Blau" of my '66 Bug (and, IMHO, the "Aquarian Blue" of the New Beetles) is lighter, and has some green in it. Artists might call mine "aquamarine"; I don't know whether that would be correct. Mine is lighter than "turquoise", which is what the Bug in the photo comes close to being.

[wa1udg]

Fort Benning Blue!

[Semper Gumby]

Stupid questions:

Sorry for the politics but it was such a clever turn I couldn't help myself.

1) Picture of our president on a bumper sticker. (But it could have been ANY of THEM).

2) Below written " Does this @ss make my car look fat?"

My apologies..nomex suit is now ON.  

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[Dizerens5]

A while ago I parked my R65 in Dover (the Channel port and a slightly rufty-tufty town) -- a couple of boys about 12 came to have a look and one asked: "why has it got sparklies on the sides?"

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

A while ago I parked my R65 in Dover (the Channel port and a slightly rufty-tufty town) -- a couple of boys about 12 came to have a look and one asked: "why has it got sparklies on the sides?"

"sparklies" - those are spark plugs, right?

I remember a couple of years ago someone, either here or on Boxerworks was complaining how they more than once lost the ceramic insulator on their spark plugs to thieves that use them for consuming crack, or was it meth?  But you get the idea.  I think it was happening in New York City.

[Altritter]

I remember a couple of years ago someone, either here or on Boxerworks was complaining how they more than once lost the ceramic insulator on their spark plugs to thieves that use them for consuming crack, or was it meth?

Had it been in Europe in the mid-70s, it might have been hash. I recall that the heads in the US Army would rip off just about any metallic bowl-shaped part with a stem on it and use the object as a hash pipe. (I understand that hash burns very hot, and tends to burn up a conventional tobacco pipe.) The vehicle mechanics got very angry because the heads would cut the wire screens out of vehicles' fuel filler pipes and use the screens as heat sinks in their hash pipes. It was small comfort to anyone having to repair the vehicles to suspect that the head using the screen was likely poisoning himself from the fumes coming off the hot screen. (It's possible that those screens had absorbed ethyl lead from the petrol.)