There is no other way than shipping a vehicle from North (or Central) to South America. Therefore we’ll have to put Herbie on one of the big cargo ships where thefts happen quite often. So we ordered a lock for the engine hood.

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But we had to get it twice because the first one didn’t work properly and it broke. Thanks to “ISP West” we got the broken one exchanged (www.vwispwest.com).

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“All’s well that ends well”, Shakespeare would say! Everything is good now and we can go down South without any worries regarding our probably most important widget – Herbie’s engine which hauled us already through four continents.