Stuck in mud up to my 1965 VW Transporter’s hubcaps and angry, I was ready to sue the Volkswagen Corporation for false advertising. After all, wasn’t my VW supposed to “walk on snow”…and mud, too?
But I knew it was my own fault. Wanting to please my wife, Grace, and parents, I had pulled off a Texas highway on the way to Fredericksburg to look at Longhorn cattle, their horns extending four feet in each direction, munching grass in a field.
Confident my vehicle—a red-and-white, 11-window metal box nicknamed “Bus”—could handle the deep-rutted, muddy road, I barreled into a foot-deep quagmire that stopped us in our tracks.
A story of overestimating the classic VW's "off-roading" capabilities.
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