2wheels4me

As a former real-Beetle owner, and even if I weren't, I find the New Beetle awful and the New-New Beetle even worse.

chuckbdc

Me too and I agree. it looks like a Panamera from certain angles.

deturney

+1, I owned a 63 with a bazillion miles on it and a 74 was my first new car. Great cars both, as long as you didn't mind changing oil every 1000 miles!

holminator

I'm getting all misty eyed.

chuckbdc

Better check your heat exchangers.

rnl

+1. I had a 1966 with a 1300cc engine. It was indestructible. I know, I tried. It was slow, cold (heat exchanger never really worked), uncomfortable, plodding and absolutely reliable. Almost to a fault.

I just couldn't get rid of it. It was once hotwired and stolen - simple trick involving string to tie two wires behind dash in frunk and hit them to a third wire- the thiefs parked the car, walked away and left it running. After about a day I got a call from the police telling me to pick it up in north Philadelphia at 15th and Green streets. . It was still running when I found it. My, that was over 40 years ago... looked just like this..But this one has the wrong hubcaps

.http://volkswagenbeetle.goyalive.com...en-beetle.html

chuckbdc

Me too. It was the first car i bought new. Below is exactly what it was. Hard to imagine next to the 991- does $1550 sound right? Reliable is an understatement- except my engine seized 6 blocks on the way home from the dealer (in Logan on Broad Street). I walked back there in shock. They retrieved the car and put another engine in- from one on the lot- in about an hour and half and sent me on my way. After that, it made it to California and back in a months drive around. 60 -65 on level stretches- also downhill (unless the clutch was in),uphill not so much. With a Bursch exhaust pipe it became my first Porsche (sort of).

theporscheguy

You can really see the 911 to 356 resemblance. I can remember growing up in Stuttgart and seeing VW's all over.

rnl

You got yours at Moore Motors too?? Small world. What is ironic is that i saw my first Porsche in the Moore showroom. I was the eleven year old kid who came back a few years later to buy the car I fell for tha day