Having friends with broke cars, the easiest avenue for work.

So my friend's wife has an older beetle with well over 100K miles on it, and it's starting to show.  A couple months ago we replaced the spark plugs.  Shortly after that they bottomed out going into a parking lot and broke a chunk out of the radiator.  He finally bought the new radiator and we put it in today.  Replacing a radiator isn't that hard, getting to it on a VW Beetle is a pain in the neck.  But we got it done, and the car runs without any problems that it didn't start with. 

This was putting the final screws securing the fan housing to the radiator.  This was the easy part.  Putting the front bumper on, all 70 or so screws, was the hard part.

This was the old radiator we pulled out.  You can easily see the chunk missing out of the side of it.