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Old 10-07-2015, 05:41 PM   #69 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
What month and year? I might have it.

I think the New Beetle gets 0.44—>0.38 by having integrated bumpers and shallower fender bulges.

The Fachsenfeld 'tearing edges' should be applied to a clone of the Volkhart-Saggita to bring it "up to date".
I'd have to guess '74/'75 time period.
There were convoys of pre-release Rabbits traveling between Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert on HWY 395 outfitted with black boxes.
The Beetle was doomed in the USA.
I should have bought the issue.I was a Ghia guy,so I didn't have that much attachment to the Bugs.And wouldn't have thought at the time that we'd be interested in them 40-years later.
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