Whatever happened to that car ?

After burning up the first engine when the fan belt broke while I was cruising down the highway, (no idiot lights and minimal gauges make it hard to tell what's going on in the engine compartment, and who knew a VW engine would continue to run for quite a while without it's only belt intact) we put a newer engine in it and I drove it for about two more years.
I was involved in a very minor fender-bender that unfortunately busted up the front drivers side fender area of the one-piece fiberglass body (while leaving not a scratch on the other car) and bent some front end components. We (my dad and I) got it drivable and shored up the body damage as best we could but it was never the same after that. We ended up selling it to a guy that worked with me at the gas station where I had been previously employed.
I really wasn't all that sorry to see it go, even with all the fun times I had in that thing. It was possibly the most ill-handling, unsafe, impractical and unergonomically correct vehicle ever to hit the road. It did look pretty slick though.

Groovy! Love the pants.

Ah, yes, the finest brown & white polyester bell bottom slacks money could buy (in '76). The brown rib knit Ban-lon golf shirt and original Adidas running shoes in bright yellow w/black stripes were a nice accompaniment, dont'cha think?

With that outfit and that car you were sure dyna-MITE!

Meh, I know you'll find this hard to believe but I was really a clique-less, outsider back in those days. To be honest, I liked it that way.

A friend of mine used to have one of those helmet-head haircuts.

I continued to let it grow to various new lengths. For instance, this look from a couple years later...



...of course I didn't usually go out and about wearing rebel officer's garb.

When I grew my hair out that long it looked like a cross between a bad Afro and a squirrel's nest. Of course that didn't stop me from growing it out anyway.

We demand photographic evidence!