Here's the story as told by Andy himself:
We had just recently moved to Eureka and were getting to know our neighbors.  One of them, the widow across the street, ask me to help her with a small chore in her barn.  I don't remember what the chore was, but I said I would be glad to help out.  She opened the door of this big red barn and there it was... a 1958 bug, just like my first ever new car, and the one I had courted my wife in 46 years ago.  She said it had been at their cabin in Oregon for when they went there for summer vacation, two or three weeks each year.  Since her husband died the previous year, she had no desire to keep it.  I asked if she would sell it to me.  She said it would save her from having to put it in the paper. 

The bumpers were rusty and it did have a fuel leak, so I took it to Bill’s VW Repair in Eureka, CA to fix where he also adjusted the brakes and valves. It has been running like a top ever since.  The interior is like new. My neighbor, the widow, said the 61,000 miles on the odometer was all the miles it ran.  My guess is that it is about 90% original. I also put on new windshield wipers.