Hey, I remember riding in the little space behind the rear seat in the 59
and 61 Beetles.
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From: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Joe Lansing
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:23 PM
To: Spridgets
Subject: '61 Road and Track
I gotta wonder about this - from Linda's 1962 article
in Road and Track regarding the brand spanking new
Mark II Sprite - "the rear edge of the cockpit has
been cut back 12" to provide room for a child..."
Holy cow - were kids really small back then? Or did
they have an inate ability to stand and sort of surf
as the car motored along? I was born in 59, so I would
have been a prime candidate for being folded into that
tiny space - but my parents had the mild mannered
approach of buying one of the early Volkswagen Buses.
Joe Lansing
62 Sprite
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