How did you get into Air-cooled VWs? Part 2

So, from time to time dad would let me drive it around a little bit. By age 14, I had bugged the old man so much about the car that he bought a new car and gave me the Bug. He told me I could drive it when I wanted to, but “no going” on the public roads. Over there, we had lots of logging dirt roads. It wasn’t long before I was saving my money to buy a Baja kit, so I could have a Baja just like the ones in hotVWs at the time. NOT. It might have a kit on it but nowhere near what those cars had in them. As a