Old VW bugs still good?

[lost in space]

Don Kiyoti wrote:
One VW ritual is crawling underneath and adjusting the valves every 3000 miles or so.

Oh yeh. In our shop, sometimes we'd have 4 or 5 in at one that needed the engines dropped out for rebuilds, clutches, main seals what have you. My partner and I could have 5 engines sitting on the ground in one hour. Typically it was 4, but 5 was the record.

I think I'm paying for those days now on cold mornings.