Actually, probably not the preferred ride, but it got the job done. After all, hunters were known for being rather resourceful and sticking to basics; qualities a Beetle complements perfectly.
Image taken in 1972, at the Check Point Station of the Colorado Department Of Fishing and Game.
Fab shot.
The good old days, when folks managed to go hunting (and bring home the bacon) without having a jacked up crew cab 4×4 pickup.
Speaking of bringing home the bacon, this pictures instantly reminded me of this one, from a German hunting trip, where the wild boar was strapped to the back luggage rack on a Porsche 356. I’d like to see someone do that nowadays with a 911 or Taycan.
That could so easily be from my childhood right down to the baler twine holding the hood down. That stuff was everywhere around our house.
That’s a very efficient way of carrying a deer on (in?) a VW. Much less obtrusive than this method:
Back in the day it was common in Minnesota to see a deer carcass strapped on top of the trunk. We had a popular radio host who claimed his father would bring the buck home strapped on the truck lid and he would paint the deer’s nose red. Then he would parade it around the neighborhood. Poor old Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer had delivered his last load of toys!
Nice picture, I’m loving all the trucks in the back ground .
Yes, VW Bugs were very good on those muddy dirt back roads hunters used back then as were scads of old beat up 1940’s sedans with snow tires .
-Nate
My older brother’s Grade 10 Science teacher was always a regular sight, in the small town we grew up in, driving his silver ’72(?) Gran Torino coupe. He passed away, in September 1985 at 34, while exchanging shotguns with his duck hunting partner. As one rifle went off.
A man I used to work with , in the late “80’s” died the same way. He was “nearing 50” at the time though.
In his case, the gun somehow malfunctioned , went off, sent “schrapnel” back into his head. Apparently other people were just feet from him.
Was so sad and unsettling.
I glanced at the headline and first thought it was a reference to VWs being the choice of serial killers in the ’70s.
Wish I’d gotten a picture but about a month ago I brought an old, full-size refrigerator to the dump in a Honda Fit. I couldn’t quite close the hatch but tied it down and that worked.
This is the story about the Beetle that ate a buck….
You’d never get that “game smell” to go away.
First thing that popped in my mind was Tommy Boy. Better damn well make sure that deer is dead lol
Back in the “day”, at least in Wisconsin, hunting regulations required that some portion of the deer had to be visible in transit. Most if the time this meant that a hoof might poke out discretely from under a trunk lid, though seeing a crudely butchered carcass tied to a roof with blood streaks running down the side of a car wasn’t uncommon either. These folks would definitely have been in compliance.