A couple of geekly points

Rating: Null/10 (4 September 2006)

I noticed two little points that would only be noticed by another VW-owning airplane geek like myself: - Dwayne was crazy about going into the Air Force, but the poster on his wall was for a Navy plane, the F/A-18 Hornet. When I was that age I was Air Force crazy, I'd only have Air Force planes on my wall.

For dramatic effect, they conflated two failures that could happen to VWs. The first happened to my 1972 Super Beetle - the starter motor failed, and you either had to park on a hill, or push it, jump in and throw it into gear to start it. I drove a whole summer like that. The second happened to my brother's 1967 Van - the clutch failed. You could slip it between gears if you matched the speeds right, but you couldn't get it into first when it was moving. So you'd have to stop it, put it into first, and then lurch off from a stop on the starter motor. You couldn't do that for many weeks before it would kill your starter motor as well, and then you'd really be in trouble.