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My husband bought a VW van for a couple hundred dollars. It was located about 40 miles from our town. I think one of our friends must have driven us to look at it and dropped us off, because I didn't have a driver's license then. We got there and looked it over. Rough body under a bright orange spray paint job. A tick in the motor the guy assured us was nothing serious. I didn't want to take a chance, but for some reason, my car crazy husband thought a bright orange VW van with an iffy motor was something he had to have. It broke down about 10 miles from where we bought it, and we had to have it towed to our house. It sat in the yard there for a year, and then we traded it on a '63 Chrysler 4 door sedan that was a much better deal. While we were broke down, 3 carloads of my husband's relatives came along, returning from a visit to his grandparents. After the initial concern, subsequent razzing and laughter, somebody got to a phone and called for the tow.