they had hoped for more security more freedom more dignity have their hopes been fulfilled. where does the arab world stand today 10 years after the arab spring. era bally and starts june 7th on d w. so every day for the past 25 years we've been testing and torturing things like dog and. seeds and. no other car goes through so much for so many. see.

this unique. downturn earth. doesn't have 4 doors it doesn't have proper heating it has no trunk cough. it up but comes back. up. for many it was their 1st car and a lifelong love. it's a kind of lifestyle driving a vehicle. it keeps on going and going and going. to. thomas today on the go in his home region of old involved in the south of germany he's on the hunt for air cooled beetles that are lying around rusting. preferably

roadworthy but it's not it's not the end of the world the tool maker by trade he can knock them all back into shape even seemingly hopeless cases. are not. sure it can be junk i'm sure it's not unusual for someone to call me up to let me know that a relatively rare model is on its way to the scrap. of course i can't let that happen so it ends up in my yard. but. the beetle enthusiast has an appointment with another beatle fan polgar lashing out . what he brings out of his garage isn't his only people but he doesn't want to keep this one if alone to a couple getting divorced. can do a lot of things but it can't divide itself into 2.

was ready to get it didn't happen i picked it up no browsing from a family that's breaking up it was supposed to get restored but the garage had to be cleaned out and that's how i got the beetle. to do it. and 967 beetle color are kona white are rare model a simple standard edition but with folding roof not many of those were built but this faithful servant has seen better days. but i've already seen that it needs a bit of work. but it's nothing i haven't seen before. the rear body sail is rusted through it would be a regular running board the doorsill basically all round. leaves home going to the bottom 20 centimeters as they say. is repeated.

an hour before. by this one it's a question of negotiation now. how could such a basic vehicle with all its limitations define logic and truth which are people's hearts and imaginations. is it once the hunchback shape its pure simplicity. karl hahn might be able to explain he was once v.w. chairman and was with the company from the store and it was he who taught the people to crawl so to speak. and. the beetle was a miracle. the beetle came a symbol of the success reliability and quality of german industry the motor of the german economy to a pacemaker was the foundation of our success has always been the beetle.

turkey for. the guns and it was done a lot to be. what it is on a good. bit of our. boys an annoying but i mean you're scottish. you've got on switch. but. this is where the story of the people began a v.w. 38 the prototype of the craft. or strength through joy card as the nazis called the folks model. number 6 of just 44 models built by hand developed in 1988 by fan and porsche hitler's auto architect. porsche driven by the idea of a compact car had already built this prototype and put it through more than 2. only in test kilometers.

every detail was painstakingly recorded. the test drives included the stretch from stock art fire baton baton and across the black forest. hitler a car freak had declared the state subsidized compact car a top priority 100 kilometers an hour top speed room for 4 people cheap to buy and economical to run a car for the people. the father and son duo of roofers and beatle collectors target and christiane condamine tried down this prototype all the way to the lithuanian capitol hill years. after world war 2 this particular beatle was taken to the soviet union as part of the spoils of war the unwitting owner unaware of its historical importance had driven it right up to the 1990 s. and then simply parked it in his yard. or in the so we arrived

and there it is parked in the middle of the garden surrounded by snow and with a tarp it's a funny feeling when you see a piece of history just lying around the studio of a hospital. and then the car belonged to the living nazi called bath lie ahead of the german labor front in the preface to the manual of the so called strength through joy car he gushed that the people's car was a national dream come true. and number 6 was also the one used for the photos in the brochure. from the beginning the strength through joy carr was a propaganda instrument of the nazis hitler needed socio political success stories to legitimize his national socialist state and he could not tolerate the german high speaking left behind by other european nations. in the race to build cars.

were damaged by. the never before had there been a design which would have to be the work of a genius broke all the rules that didn't have 4 doors but settled for 2 and had all kinds of limitations but in a package that i know way underlined it's cheap yes but demonstrated quality and practicality driving pleasure. or traffic. there was no question of a people's car in the war years only celebrities and party big weights got their hands on the new strength through joy card despite the nazi states pithy slogans promoting the pleasures of a cheap car all you had to do they said was save 5 marks a week and you could buy your own car germans dutifully collected their saving

stamps but the promised car never arrived not even when the world's biggest car factory was built in phallus laban now a district of all spork. the men who were supposed to build the cars were sent to the front to fight production was switched to munitions the machines turned out army jeeps tanks and cannon the savings put aside by the population came in handy for the nazis when the war was over some of the savers tried to get their money back the lawsuits dragged on until the early 1960 s. and ended with a settlement that ruled out all legal entitlements but returned a fraction of the money to the plaintiffs. the ministers for also the savers at least got the chance to use their money for a down payment or get on. any of them did that need to go. on so don they could either take a cash payment or a corresponding discount on

a new car. call. the money has sunk most of his savings into his passion for beatles still tired fletcher has been a fan since he married a beatle owner she drove to work in it every day clocking up 300000 kilometers without breaking down found so approved. seems. sure. his approval turned 1st into a passion and then into an obsession volatile would snap up every beatle he came across it all began in the mid 1970 s. word soon got around. a lot of people would park their old beatles outside my house at night and i'd wake

up and look to see if there was a new one we don't out of allies 3 or 4 a week for spare parts. you know that actually there were so many that i no longer knew what all year they were or what model and i said to myself if i want to keep this hobby up i'll have to build a warehouse was one car from every year beginning to end. it is there anywhere else like it in the world i don't know i don't think so. at 1938 to 2003 at least one beetle from every year of production all in all a grand total of more than $180.00 cars not only is every year covered but there are quite a. hugh brand models to. the last beatle belts involved sport from 1974

. 1 of the legendary now extremely rare black and yellow racers from 1973 an eye catcher then and now it looks fast but only had 50 horsepower. the last 2 beatles built in mexico from 2003 each with just 11 kilometers on the clock. in one shed the last convertible to roll off the production lines at common in polk in 1979 waxed and still in its original packaging from. one of our turns favorites a beetle from 1948 popularly known as the pretzel model because of the split where window. it once belonged to the cathedral provost of moon stopped. the church

official was staying at a guest house when the car was stolen by british occupying forces they hid it away in an abandoned distillery. a new level of mecca they took everything they could get bicycles motorbikes military side cars cars they wall that up between the main building and the outhouse and plan to take it all back to england but the troops were redeployed in 1955 and the cars were forgotten about along with the other vehicles. cardosa. when they distillery was being demolished decades later the old cars were simply in the way nobody realized the significance of the find until vulture happened to pass by. you see the beetle already in the clutches of the digger the rope had already been

crushed and the rear end was next i jumped on the car and yelled let the beetle live for the damage was done but we restored every inch bit by bit we didn't replace a single part the car had 2050 kilometers on the clock now it's nearly $50000.00 . in order it's still got the original tires from 1948 the rubber has an interior it the authorities always check that and were allowed to drive it. after the war the bomb factory was placed under british military ministration the occupiers ridiculed the hunchbacked car as primitive all except one major ivan her just saw the potential of the nazi product and secured a commission from the british military government in august 94520000

pounds it was simultaneously the lifesaver and launch pad for. the british had brought the car to its in development center at 1945 and declared it unusable. send it back to the germans doesn't have 4 doors it has no proper heating it's got no trunk and your engine is loud and so on. which is. theoretically if you did not see things like porsche who turned it into a practical car with the largest production numbers of all time you can see how difficult it is to predict the success or failure of a new product. for. a 940. 8 the british occupiers appointed hein north hall of the new general director . he once said the v.w.

beetle had as many flaws as a dog fleas. now he had the staff working in 3 shifts around the clock building the beetle. the former general motors manager opted for a radical monoculture putting all his eggs in one basket. the gamble paid off in the blink of an eye not hoff made the beatle famous well beyond germany's borders booming exports made for handsome profits and the newfound wealth made the staff proud of their factory and new town which was now named books born. in 1953 just 80 years after the end of the war the 500000 people rolled off the production lines by then its nickname had long since been bestowed on it by the

americans. back to beetle enthusiastic told us today ah he has set up his workshop in an old wine cellar. mechanical talents are well known among germany's beatle fans they come from far and wide for his services. at the moment he's working on a 13 o 2 also known as a super beetle from the early 1970 s. with modern chassis technology a quantum leap in peoples of the time. the air cooled type one flat 4 engine has to come out but it only takes the turn of a few screws. with the push of gold is formed yeah because sign is well thought through. and you can get all of the parts very easily. or listen to the sound it makes. order so the design is very basic full frame such

that is also the attraction i would result items a. player narrowly saved this particular hunchback from the junkyard a 984 model built in mexico like most central american beetles it was used as a taxi only the shell remains but tire has doors in storage along with the chassis with the typical platform frame this one is not as bad as it looks. because these are usually is really just the car's bad weather code. we could install a seat and connect a steering column and we would practically be ready to go. and still work sometimes that still works i can show you you. you just leave electricity and gas thank. the engine springs into life.

in $960.00 s. america and of large gas guzzlers the b.w. people sold like hotcakes this classless wonder was extremely popular with the mainstream the generation that fought against hitler's germany. nowhere else in the world where more people saw then in north america. the americans fell in love with the beetle because it liberated them from the tyranny of detroit where they were bringing a new model to market every year a new strip of crum or a new window or a new vendor at the front or back were enough for them to announce a new model and the old one was no longer worth as much people add the new one in their driveway so the porch still. and had to explain why their father still hadn't bought the new model so every day for the past 25 years we've been testing and

torturing things like doors and. seats and shops all know what that car goes through so much more so much. i. believe that. our advertising campaign became the talk of the town in america it was even nominated for best advertising campaign of the 20th century but the beetle was ideal for such a cheeky campaign fresh. on one side of the newspaper you had a coca-cola bottle and on the other beatle. the slogan 2 shapes known the world over. form and. beatle meat in the belgian town of spa. not any old meat probably dizziness beetle festival in the world.

only air cooled engines are allowed on the legendary race track real wheel drive only it goes without saying. there are so many here that there are traffic jams on the grand prix course. it was beatlemania of a different kind from its heyday in the 1960 s. to the late seventy's when the people was already being written off. they're also from the 2nd home mexico would continue to be built until it was finally discontinued in 2003 after 65 years. khorasan. and. curious. one of the men in the pits is gas buys or from just sold or he's been pimping old beetles for 30 years now

filthy engine of a v.w. van type 32.4 leaders 180 horsepower into his 1302 model probably enough power to send it to the moon and. bonser uses it for racing. to. move. the food on the. obvious is amateur racing at its best everybody has their fun. most of us used to race professionally and now we're

just doing it as a hobby. there are also the drag racers people who have poured up to 70000 euros into their beatles for a few crazy seconds of acceleration over a quarter of a mile from the food these beetles run on 114 octane fuel also known as laughing gas. mago but life from the bell in belgium has pinches 974 beetle with 230 horsepower. she says that makes it faster than a porsche g.t. 3. market has been drag racing for 30 years. move is just starting now it's a shot of adrenaline. you're concentrating right down to the line. you go through your words. well done and then the lights go green in your brain switches off and off we go.

drag racing is like a modern day do you will what. mark gets off to a terrible start but quickly pulls away. his opponent also driving a beetle doesn't stand a chance. the belgian is huffy his engine didn't blow up which can happen in drag racing. to slow down or little bit of these beetles are not allowed on the track they're so low that they would ruin the asphalt in june they look like write offs but that's on purpose. there's room for everyone here including the low bugs as they're called tire would float on this $963.00 model with folding roof was done by

a mechanic from frankfurt he bought the car from a senior citizen one careful owner. devoted like charcoal she didn't want to sell it so i pulled out all the stops water flowers and by there for coffee i did some sweet talking the interior is from 1063 if i have to touch it up i hit the jackpot with the upholstery stripper to the old lady really looked after me. the beetle for more than 20000000 produced exported to more than 150 countries. used and abused but always loved. it so unbelievable somewhat such a cheap car can do because somehow the beetle always landed on its feet. and even made it as a movie star. thank.

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