1968 got stationed at the vacation resort of Ft. Huachuca AZ after being released from a 3 month hospital stay at Ft. Bliss TX. Bought a 1955 VW bug at a car lot in downtown Sierra Vista. I think the motor was rated 38hp. It had the swing-up turn signal arms in the door posts. It lasted me the rest of my tour till I got discharged in 1970.
Wow! You owned a Beetle with the old “mox nix sticks”. By the time I got to Germany in 1968, those signals were ausser betrieb (banned) & cars with them had to be converted to blinkers. At autobahn speeds the semaphores would extend out by themselves.
IIRC the fiftie’s engine was 36 hp, then in 1960 upped to 40 hp, later 50 hp, and in 1967 a “ferocious” 53 hp.
Lots of Beetle fans on this thread, BTW.