My grandparents use to have a VW van or microbus or whatever it was called. Had a bed, fridge and a fold up table in the thing. I thought it was the balls! back in the early 70's I spent a summer with them in the Sacremento area and we took a trip to Reno I believe and my grandfather kept getting tickets for driving too slow up in the mountains.....couldn't stay above the minimum speed limit going uphill
Beetles I could do without. In '68 we had one and got hit head on by a GTO going about 70 mph. No one wearing seatbelts and no car seat for me (did they even have them back then?) Dad got a broken leg, nose and arm. I just got some minor injuries from rocketing into the front seats, but Mom got it real bad. Rescuers said my father was in the ambulance and the car was hooked up to a tow truck, ready to be taken away and I kept running back to the wreck crying for my mother (I was only about 3). Somebody decided to take another look in the car because of that. Turns out they didn't even know my mom was in the car! Passenger side completely folded over her and she was under the dashboard....nobody could even see her. She spent 3 months in the hospital, all busted up. Engine in the back? What were they thinking?
