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[muddus]

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[iangreenhalgh1]

Very nice shot, oh how I hate the Beetle, horrid hateful thing!

[Attila]

Great shoot! Here this car was popular behind iron curtain ' a western car' a damn fine one if we count how old and made for mass amount of people.

[iangreenhalgh1]

A girlfriend of mine had one, bright yellow, damn thing was so unreliable, that air cooled engine was the weakness, it was breaking down all the time, I hate to think how many times I had to push the bloody thing. I owned an orange Saab 96 at the time so with the two parked outside it looked pretty hippie and wierd!

[Attila]

[Orio]

One of my aunt used to have this car when I was little, so it is related to a lot of childhood memories together with
my cousin. I remember that even if I was little in age, none the less it was a sort of a nightmare to enter the back seats.
WIth the size I am today, I would probably not be able to enter the back seats again

[muddus]

Bubble in the winter was so cold that I put the extra heater. The battery was under the rear seat and went to the short-circuited and ignited a bench to fire. Friends scream that suddenly stop, my ass is on fire.

[Olivier]

What did they do to my car !!!

I had a green one 1303.
It worked very well and It was like rolling on a carpet.
I liked its sound a lot too.

I remembered a friend told me that we could mount a porsche engine in place of its rear engine.
After changing wheels and tyres, it would have been fun to race on the highway against fast big cars...

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[peterqd]

I've never driven one myself, but my friend's father swore by them when I was a teenager in the 60s, he had a string of 3 or 4 of them and cared for them like we care for our lenses. I'll always remember my friend taking one out for a spin (literally!). The weight distribution was, let's say, "unusual" - I can't remember if it was the front or rear wheels which lost grip easily in the wet.

Nice to see a familiar old friend though.

[iangreenhalgh1]

I always thought the success of the Beetle was more down to it's wonderful advertising campaign than any great virtues of the car itself. Entire books have been written about the Beetle ad campaign, it is held up as one of the greatest ever devised.