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    Cars back then didn't weigh much. And had the structural integrity of your average lawn chair.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Davz912/911 View Post
    Rolling VWs... Been there done that. 59 sunroof. Driving to a buddies buddies place. He yells, turn right, now!
    All I remember is "ground,sky,ground sky" Thank God we didn't loose our heads. Nicks and scratches are all we got.
    We landed on some guys lawn, the guy runs out screaming at us, "look what you did to my lawn!".
    All VWs after that got camber compensators. Oh, and I learned to drive up the street and flip a u-turn.

    Cheers
    Lol, yeah I can relate. My crash happened at night. Because I was going a high speed before the spin when the wheels caught , it threw the car up in the air. I remember throwing my hands over my head and just hearing silence. When I opened my eyes I saw the moon down and grass up. Then it landed, and I don't remember anything after that.

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    ...we used to roll the VW’s for fun - decent VW for $100 back in the day. I remember coming home from high school and, as usual, several friends in the garage. Seemed awfully quiet and then I noticed my VW was scraped in a nice roll-over. Of course, only snickers, no responsibility. Fortunately, no one was ever hurt.
    Bill
    1969 911T - sold
    2001 911 Turbo - sold
    1996 911 C4S - returned
    1982 911SC - gone
    1960 356 Roadster - sold

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    I have probably logged half a million miles in old VW's, and never rolled over. When I was 18 (1965), I put a Porsche Super engine in my '56 Bug. The first thing I noticed was that the brakes were of no use at 90MPH, so 356 brakes all around. Then a Squareback all synchro trans that had longer axles, and 356 wheels with bigger tires. Then pulled the torsion bars and lowered the back end. Finally went looking for Koni shocks, and had an old German mechanic tell me that they would "shake the car to pieces". Finally found the shocks (hard to find anyone with "hot rod" parts for a VW back then) and installed them and chained the swing arms. Good to go.
    Here is a pic of my last VW, a '66 that now resides in my daughters garage. Lowered front and back, disc brakes on the front and '68 drums on the back, Koni's, Transporter trans, empi wheels with big tires. Oh, and a 2L VW motor with Berg counterweighted stroker crank, big valve heads and '44 Webers. Boy I loved to drive that car!
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