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SIA Flashback – Beetles Beautiful and Bizarre

Written by webmin

In moderation, most things are just fine. Take, for instance, the trend of rebodying the Volkswagen Beetle. Once the Beetle became ubiquitous and dirt-cheap, everybody with a chopper gun started to use the Bug as the basis for bringing their notebook-margin doodles to life. Yet there were many refined, restrained and quality-focused coachbuilt Beetles, mostly from European firms, that appeared in the late 1940s and 1950s, and Ray I. Scroggins highlighted some of the more well-known examples for SIA #85, February 1985.


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