Someone is still using a 50y.o. Beetle for road trips...
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São Gabriel is about 200 miles from Porto Alegre.
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I wouldn't be surprised if my stepmother, who was born in São Gabriel (yet AFAIK spent most of her youth in Bagé and Santa Maria), eventually knows the owner of this Beetle that I spotted on the wild.