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Hi there! It's Mark Garcia, proud owner of a '73 Squareback. Currently my wife wife Kimberly and I live in Santa Barbara, CA. (Home to many, many different types of Volkswagens.) Her grandparents bought the car from the factory in 1973, drove it around Europe, and had it shipped to the u.s. Apparently, it was somewhat easy to do that back then. (Her grandpa even told me about his friends traveling to Stuttgart and Munich, I think, to order Porches and Mercedes and having those cars shipped...) Anyway, The first car I remember my dad having was a '71 Squareback. Then he traded it in for a '74 Thing. My wife has had about two or three bugs in her time. I myself have two Vespa scooters, (two-stroke motors are as fun as the Squareback motor to work on.) Also a '78 BMW r 80/7. I guess I like the German horizontally-opposed engine design. We are 30 and 28, respectively. No kids as of yet. (but the Square doesn't have rear seat-belts, anyway...) I'm a probation officer and she works in social services. Let me take this opportunity to thank all who have answered questions in the past-the answer ineveitably comes out. This is a good group!