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Curbside Classic: 1966 VW 1300 – The Best Beetle Of Them All; Or At Least The Sportiest
Posted on April 10, 2024 | 121 Comments(first posted 11/28/2011, revised 6/6/2015, and 4/6/2024) Trying to maintain some objectivity about significant cars from one’s younger years is difficult. Yes, the Beetle is practically my alter-ego; my oldest […] -
Car Show Classic: 2003 VW Type 1 Beetle: Last of the Mohicans
Posted on September 24, 2023 | 90 Comments(first posted 9/21/2017) Back in the Spring, when, according to the Good Book, “kings go off to war”, I hauled the Esposita out to the […] -
Curbside Classic: 1946 Volkswagen 1100 (Type 11): The Beetle Crawls Out Of The Rubble
Posted on September 19, 2023 | 121 Comments(first posted 2/11/2011. Updated 9/17/2023) Having the distinction of being the most built car ever (over 21 million), the Volkswagen Beetle rightfully gets a lot of CC attention. In this […] -
COAL : 1970 Volkswagen Beetle – Full Circle
Posted on September 3, 2023 | 31 CommentsI suppose we could say it was inevitable that a Beetle would feature once again in my COAL chronicles. I’ve had a hankering on and off for for one ever […] -
Curbside Classic: 1968 Volkswagen Automatic Stickshift · Chrysler’s Fluid Drive Returns In The Safer Käfer
Posted on June 17, 2023 | 103 Commentsfirst posted 22 May 2013 I’m walking to the the subway on a lovely May day, and a glimmer of chrome on powder blue in the distance hits me. It’s […] -
COAL 1968 Beetle – A Drive Through Mexico, Part III
Posted on March 26, 2022 | 13 Comments(Note: not much sightseeing, but lots of border trouble.) The drive from Oaxaca to Tapachula (the southernmost city in Mexico) was a tedious and uneventful affair. An 8-hour 6,000 feet […] -
COAL 1968 Beetle – A Drive Through Mexico, Part I
Posted on March 9, 2022 | 16 CommentsBy December 2002, after a couple of years of poor finances the harsh truth couldn’t be denied: my stay in the city of San Francisco had come to an […] -
COAL: 1968 Beetle, Part II – Learning to live with the Bug.
Posted on February 16, 2022 | 18 CommentsIt sat for a couple of months in a corner of the Arco station on Glenoaks Blvd, Glendale. A used light blue 1968 Beetle, in straight shape, sitting next to […] -
COAL 1968 Beetle: Climbing the Steep Hill of Used Car Ownership
Posted on February 2, 2022 | 6 CommentsThe idea had been getting through my head, not too quickly, not too slowly. Should I take his word? Does he know what he’s talking about? Money wise it seemed […] -
Wordless Outtake: Little Miss Sunshine
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Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: “KDF Hanomag” – Alleged Volkswagen Beetle Prototype Is A Re-Bodied VW Kubelwagen
Posted on January 6, 2021 | 16 CommentsPeter Wilding uploaded this intriguing Volkswagen to the Cohort that showed up at local show in 2013. The owner claimed it to be an early Beetle prototype but he suspects […] -
CC Capsule: Air-Cooled Volkswagens I Have Recently Known
Posted on November 6, 2020 | 19 CommentsEven though air-cooled Volkswagens are hardly common in Indiana anymore, they’re still not exactly rare. I don’t keep track in my head of all the old cars I find; it […] -
CC Outtake: The Pursuit Of Fahrvergnügen
Posted on August 8, 2018 | 26 CommentsA brother recently moved from California to Tennessee. He knew that his taxes would be much lower. Now he knows why. -
CC Vintage Outtake: 1970s VW Beetle in 1982
Posted on May 5, 2015 | 22 CommentsFrom the time I was very small I used to sit on the front stoop and watch the cars go by. By age five I could reliably tell you the […] -
CC Global: The Million Dollar Volkswagen
Posted on January 9, 2015 | 29 CommentsArab oil shieks. I’m willing to bet that those words have just conjured an image of a lot of people in keffiyehs stepping aboard their gold-plated private jets. Yeah, perhaps taste […]