Was in service in 1968-69 in Germany and bought a VW Beetle for $100 and pulled a motor out of a junk yard and replaced it to mine….wife and I and a couple from Missouri drove it over the Alps to Italy and Austria on a 2 week leave…never opened the quart of oil I put under the front seat for a spare …sold the VW for $200 when I got out. Soon as I got home bought a new Bug for $1000…drove it till 1978. Bought a new GTO in 1966 for $3300…saw one this week on the auto auction site sell for over $60,000. Sold mine for $800 in 1980 with 130 thousand miles on it. If I had kept that car and restored it at todays prices could have made…. a killing.
