What do you even say about a Curbside Classic like this? It’s a Beetle with a “green roof”. Amazingly there has not yet been a “but does your Beetle have a living roof?” sketch on Portlandia. Of course, if there had most viewers would have thought the show had taken satire to the point of absurdity. As usual, fiction struggles to keep pace with reality.
I just realized there is probably a mobile agriculture forum somewhere where people one-up each others’ rolling farms.
Can they claim this as a carbon offset?
Looks like about 6 cubic feet of water up there, which is about 40 gallons or 350 “road-hugging” pounds. On a sharp turn, the muddy water will slosh, and those nice side mirrors will kiss the road.
There is usually a “Chia-Bug” completely covered in sod, that shows up at the bug-in’s at Woodburn and PIR
That whole street is just lined with goodness – the Mercedes W114, first generation Ranger, 1986 or so Mustang GT and then the Mazda B-series in the tail pic…
Hmm, I wonder how much end float the crank has on that Beetle?
Mine’s about .020″ 🙁
Dear, did you add water to the ’65 Beetle, it seems to be using a lot in this hot weather.
Hey, the trunk is supposed to be in the front . . .
If it were mine, it would be a brown roof. I have proven adept at killing almost any plant. Good find.
But think how great this would be in drag racing – a photosynthesis finish. 🙂
It would be fun to wind the Miracle Grow to this without telling the owner, just to see how much it would grow.
This garden has a huge beetle problem.
That’s about a ’64 Beetle. I wonder how rusted the heater channels are.
I assume that Electric Blue Escalade at 11 O’clock in the last picture did not leave the factory factory like that. Good catch with this Beetle, there are still dozens of road going ones in the Portland Metro Area. The patina on this Bug and the Ranger do not look to be Western Oregon in origin, wonder where they are originally from?
Gotta report the CC Effect when it happens. Last night I was walking my Cairn Terrier Molly around the neighborhood. We got to the main street that cuts through the neighborhood when I spotted a VW Beetle headed towards us, but slowing for the speed hump. Molly and I had time to get across, so we went. It being dark, I paid the Bug no mind, because at a glance, I just assumed it was just another Beetle with the engine in the front.
Then I heard it and snapped my head around. Having not heard that air-cooled sound in years, I still immediately recognizing it. Rather than the featured car’s eco-green top, this one was a Cabriolet with a white top. It looked to be about a ’74 or ’75 Super Beetle in a dark color, perhaps blue. I remember walking away thinking, ‘There’s gonna be a Curbside Classic about a VW Bug tomorrow.’ And here we are….
Testbed for a mobile farming initiative? Of course a T2 pickup would work better…
I bet the oil doesn’t get checked very often. There is an interesting design conceit about leaving things out so that owners have a gap to fill; the VW bug has that left-outness built-in.
All the madness is why I moved out of Portland after living there for 64 1\2 years out my almost 66.It had been kidnapped by crazy California liberals in the 70’s and the Guppy generation next and finally by the Interweb Invaders just like the town of my birth, Eugene. I felt like stranger in a land that was once familiar.
Loco Mikado
Welcome to the new Liberal anything goes USA mentality………..
This is a hard core Flower Child from the 1960s.
A ’65 or ’66 .
Poor old thing .
I’m still looking at old Beetles, most seem to have rust every where, even in Los Angeles .
-Nate