[Libloather]

Owned one in a long line of five consecutive VW's. Built like a tank...

[backhoe]

My first car was a VW, circa 1964... it had the European turn signal arms in the doorposts. Naturally, I called it "Fritz..."

[John Beresford Tipton]

After the War, the US Administrator for Germany, Gen. Lucius Clay, had a study commissioned that concluded that there was no market or future for the VW Beetle.

[Osage Orange]

I own a 1961 two-door truck....Used to be a daily driver. I've owned it for some 23 years or so....

FRegards,

[BSunday]

Curtain to Fall on VW Beetle, Icon of Flower Power Fri June 6, 2003 09:09 PM ET FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) - The original Volkswagen Beetle, the ubiquitous German car born in the Nazi drive for a "people's car" and later an icon of the hippie revolution, will roll off a production line for the last time this summer.

... In the model's 70-year history, 22 million air-cooled Beetles were produced at VW's factories around the world. They were cheap and reliable, with the marketing slogan for years claiming "it will run and run and run."

Created in 1938 on the orders of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler who wanted to give every German family a vehicle, Volkswagen, or people's car, entered mass production only after World War II.

... It quickly became the symbol of the German industrial miracle and a car of choice for the first postwar generation that rebelled in the United States and Western Europe against the tight social corset of the time.

... The Old beetle and new beetle were equally as ugly. Good riddance to that eyesore of a vehicle, symbol of Nazi Fascism. Long live THE Great American Car, the Ford Mustang.

[JoeSchem]

The Beetle, the Hitler-designed car of choice for the hippie generation and the Pacific Northwest's #1 Serial Killer, Ted Bundy.

. . . Just kidding. Well, actually, Bundy did own a yellow Beetle. But I'm obviously making outlandish, logic-stretching connections here. And you know what, it's fun to stretch logic. No wonder liberals seem so addicted to doing it!

[upchuck]

Drove VW Beetles for years. First one was a 1958, last one was a 1971 Super Beetle. Damn fine cars. Not much of a heater, but they ran forever and were cheap to maintain. Also owned a VW Bus w/ sunroof.

Sorry to see them pass.

[Rudder]

I thought they stopped making the air-cooled, rear-engine, orginal Beetle many years ago. What has been on the market in recent years only appears outwardly to look like the orginal--correct?

[Fiddlstix]

It was a good little car. Heck, the little thing would even float. lol

[nutmeg]

read later bump

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I have one for sale:

[Newton]

Here's my '79 vert - Velma.....



This is what she looked like when we got her....
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[bert]

Etched in my memory is a VW race that occurred on an 11 mile straight stretch of two lane road in Wyoming. There were 5 of us in a row. Pedal to the metal, flat out. Three had smaller engines and were passed. The #4 car and I ran side by side for miles. He gradually and I mean gradually passed and eventually swung in front. I had my wife and most of our world posessions and thus a weight disadvantage.

It was a great day to be driving a VW and a wonderful place to run flat out for miles and miles with no other traffic at all.

I bought the VW new, my first, for $1,800, drove it 5 years, sold it in Manila to a priest for $1,200 in cash, very small bills and a tremendous wad of cash.

It was a sad day, but the car was not worth bringing back to the States.Ah to be 25 and own a Red Beetle.

[SGCOS]

...Volkswagen, or people's car,

Learn somethin' every day....