This car was significant!!....and this may surprise a number of people, this car is the car that Pam learnt to drive in!!...yes, no joke, read on.

The year would have been around 1974, Darryl was just a couple of years old or so, we were living at Kallangur and I was working at Chesney Caravans and working shift work, Pam was having difficulty doing the things she needed to do with the odd hours I was working....a neighbour had this old VW for sale and I convinced Pam that I could teach her to drive it. Anyone who has driven a VW will know that there has probably never been an easier car to drive. The car was in pretty poor condition. I had to put a new clutch in it and new front suspension. I repainted it to a nice blue, similar to the car in the photo, the bottom section. Pam eventually got her learner's permit in this car, and after much 'expert' tuition from me, she became quite accomplished. I didn't mind driving this old car either, you have to own a Beetle to love them, so they say. I can say I never loved this car at all!...noisy, not very powerful and small...have you ever seen the boot in one of these things?.

We decided to get rid of it, we sold it and actually made quite a tidy profit...a neighbour brought it for his daughter, for years afterwards we used to watch it driving past.

Next car we bought was also for Pam....oh, at the same time we still had our Ford Escort, car No 20.