Fine looking seat cover in the white bug.
I wonder if they upgraded the motor in the tandem yellow one.
Thanks! that was interesting.
good memories of my first couple builds, never did a big motor but might have to one day just cuz
A nice collection and ending it with a fine offering from John Muir’s Great book!
It’s a feature, not a bug. Originally attributed to Oracle Corporation
Thank you Adolph and Mr. Porsche
If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagon, he would have been President instead of Jimmy Carter.
I learned to drive in a VW microbus. My brother once crammed a Porsche engine into one. Could burn rubber going uphill.
Picture of lady against car could have been my mother who bought one of the first bug and drove it to work every day till she retired. She had my dad install a fan on the dashboard and a heater on the floor. Midwest and had no heat or air.
My first car was a 1960 Bug. 36 HP and about 62 MPH top end. It didn’t even have a radio or a gas gauge. It had a one-gallon reserve tank with an L-shaped lever under the dash that you turned up when you filled your tank and down when you ran out, if you remembered to turn it upward and fill the tank all the way up when had to use the reserve. I had tried to buy a ’65 Galaxie 500 convertible, but Daddy wouldn’t allow a car with too big an engine that could haul too many hoodlum kids, and the Bug was perfect for his purposes, if not mine.
But I fooled him by getting eight of my hoodlum kids into it one night. Good times.
i had an actual volkswagon pick up back in the late 80s…diesel, hated cold weather…no ac…had to drive that damn thing in the tx heat for a couple years…good truck though…
Fine looking seat cover in the white bug.
I wonder if they upgraded the motor in the tandem yellow one.
Thanks! that was interesting.
good memories of my first couple builds, never did a big motor but might have to one day just cuz
A nice collection and ending it with a fine offering from John Muir’s Great book!
It’s a feature, not a bug. Originally attributed to Oracle Corporation
Thank you Adolph and Mr. Porsche
If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagon, he would have been President instead of Jimmy Carter.
I learned to drive in a VW microbus. My brother once crammed a Porsche engine into one. Could burn rubber going uphill.
Picture of lady against car could have been my mother who bought one of the first bug and drove it to work every day till she retired. She had my dad install a fan on the dashboard and a heater on the floor. Midwest and had no heat or air.
My first car was a 1960 Bug. 36 HP and about 62 MPH top end. It didn’t even have a radio or a gas gauge. It had a one-gallon reserve tank with an L-shaped lever under the dash that you turned up when you filled your tank and down when you ran out, if you remembered to turn it upward and fill the tank all the way up when had to use the reserve. I had tried to buy a ’65 Galaxie 500 convertible, but Daddy wouldn’t allow a car with too big an engine that could haul too many hoodlum kids, and the Bug was perfect for his purposes, if not mine.
But I fooled him by getting eight of my hoodlum kids into it one night. Good times.
i had an actual volkswagon pick up back in the late 80s…diesel, hated cold weather…no ac…had to drive that damn thing in the tx heat for a couple years…good truck though…
https://search.brave.com/images?q=volkswagon+rabbit+pick+up&source=images
My Boy just bought himself a Golf GTI!
One of the coolest rat rod I saw was a bug with no front fenders. Chopped and airbrushed. It took me a minute to even realize it was a VW