am I obligated to put a grateful dead sticker on the back window?
I sure hope not.
My mom tells me about her first auto, being a Volkswagen Bug, that it had a road runner sticker.
SO it may need a sticker, but whatever you want, doesn't have to be a Dead Head sticker!
Put one of these on.
I had several VW's back in my college days and I never put one on them. They were dirt cheap to maintain, and ran pretty good, provided that you tinkered with it every so often. They basically have an oversized air-cooled lawnmower engine. I had the engine in mine apart several times.
What are you doing to your wifes car?
No such thing as a "Bug"
The car is a VW Beetle 😉
Type I if you want to be specific!!
"oversized lawn mower" oh, the humanity!! that makes my soul hurt. Ferdinand Porsche is rolling in his grave at that comment, sir!
"What are you doing to your wifes car?"
Mostly small stuff, just a whole bunch of it.
We got all the little things back to working, wiper motor, clutch, seats, dashboard, trunk cable, etc.
We have a few things we want to do on the inside, then it is going to be the exhaust system.
Then a rebuild of the interior.
And then body work and a paint job.
But I have a two year schedule going, with most of the work being done in the summer when it gets to hot to want to drive it.
Simple answer is Yes....
Here's a good one...
or you can go retro with 
I don't know if anyone else remembers years ago, (70's or 80's) there was a popular thing to attach to your VW Bug for about a year or two. Someone sold a giant wind-up key that would turn as you drove it. It made it look like a big wind-up car.
oops....they're back I guess; I did a quick search before I posted. http://windupkey.com/
haha nice, Or better yet 
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Good catch there Andy. Pre 68 Type II's the sticker is a requirement. I've got a steal your face in the back window of my 66.
> "oversized lawn mower" oh, the humanity!! that makes my soul hurt. Ferdinand Porsche is rolling in his grave at that comment, sir!
Well, what I meant by that is it is a air cooled engine, like a lawn mower, only it has four cylinders. Pretty simple and cheap to work on. I could do a valve adjustment in 2 minutes, drop the engine out in 20 minutes etc. Eight bolts, two electrical connections, and a gas line. Drop it down and pull it out.
I had a '73 squareback and '71 van. The van was pretty gutless. It used the same engine as the bug, only it was heavier and not very aerodynamic.
I tried to remedy that by installing a Weber progressive carb on it. I port matched the intake and drilled out the jets on the carb. lol! It had gobs of power after that. I could even lay rubber in 1st gear, which was unthinkable before the modification. And then, one day coming back from classes, I noticed that someone's engine was burning alot of oil and smoking like you wouldn't believe behind me.... Hey....that's me....
Oops.... That intake and carb was too much for that engine. I tore it apart and sure enough a piston ring broke. Scratched up the cylinder walls and messed up the valves. Pieces of the broken ring floated through the intake chamber and into the neighboring cylinder. That one was messed up too.
Someone had offered me a engine that had a rod knock from a blown rear main seal. (common problem with the bug engines) I took it apart and swapped the jugs, rings and pistons. Put it all back together and presto! It ran good and got me back home for the summer. (415 mile trip)
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