against corruption and dictatorship. truth more security more freedom more dignity have their hopes been fulfilled 10 years after the arab spring. or a 1000000000 starts june 7th w. . so every day for the past 25 years we've been testing and torturing things like dog injured and. seeds and shops and no other car goes through so much or so let's. say.

this unique. downturn earth. doesn't have 4 doors it doesn't have proper heating it has in her trunk cough. it up but. i'll think about it. for many it was their 1st car and a lifelong love. it's a kind of lifestyle driving a peter. he 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 line around rusting prefer.

believe roadworthy but it's not it's not the end of the world a tool maker by trade he can knock them all back into shape even the seemingly hopeless cases. that my fair share of 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 the mayor 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. what he brings out of his garage isn't his only be at home 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.

where did you get it i didn't have i picked it up in oberhausen from a family that's breaking up it was supposed to get restored but garage had to be cleaned out and that's how i got the beetle. so i mean today is. a 967 beetle color are kona white are rare model a simple standard edition but with folding roof not many of those were built but there's space full servant has seen better days. or so. 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 for. leaves home. the bottom 20 centimeters as they said. you with us reason to be here

and our people will toss by this one it's a question of negotiation now. how could such a basic vehicle with all its limitations define logic and capture people's hearts and imaginations. is it wants 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 stuart it was he who taught the people to crawl so to speak. of. the beetle was a miracle of. the beetle and came a symbol of the success reliability and quality of german industry the motor of the german economy for a pacemaker was the foundation of our success has always been the beatles. to

care for. pretty dancer bit pushed him a lot of people as a dom but that is only to get. wood on the our original invoice on annoying very i mean you're scottish did in order to. vote on switch. this is where the story of the people began a v.w. 38 the prototype of the cost of og and or strength through joy cars as the nazis called the folks model. number 6 of just 44 models built by hand developed in 1988 by fed and portion hitler's auto architect. porsche driven by the idea of a compact car had already built this kind of time and put it through more than 2000000 tests kilometers.

every detail was painstakingly recorded. the test drives included the stretch from stock car 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 beetle collectors target and tristan quantum on track down this prototype all the way to the lithuanian capitol hill years. after world war 2 this particular beetle 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 99 days and then simply parked it in his yard. or.

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 $52.00 of us with. them the car belonged to the leading nazi bath lie head of the german labor front in the preface to the manual of the so-called strength through joy carr he gushed that the people's car was a national dream come true. 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 spin left behind by other european nations in the race to build cars. past.

one damaged by. the who never before had there been a design which would have to be the work of a genius broke all the rules you know 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 she. demonstrated quality and practicality driving pleasure. or for. there was no question of a people's car in the war years only celebrities and party big quakes got their hands on their new strength through joy car despite the nazi states pity 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 con factory was built and far less labor and now a district of full spork. the men who were supposed to build the cars were sent to the front to fight production was switched to munitions the machines churned 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. for ministry of the savers at least got the chance to use the money for a down payment or many of them did that. very good either take a cash payment. or a corresponding discount on

a new car. has sunk most of his savings into his passion for. the retired butcher has been a fan since he married a beatle owner she drove to work in it every day clocking up 300000 kilometers without ever breaking down. to approved. seems. to show. 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 were parked 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 analyze 3 or 4 a week for snare 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 with 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. 1938 to 2003 that least one beetle from every year of production only know a grand total of more than $180.00 cars not only is every year covered but there are quite a few grandma to. the last beetle built involved spork from 1900.

for. one of the legendary now extremely rare black and yellow racers from 1983 and i capture then and now it looks fast but only had 50 horsepower. the last 2 people spill to mexico from 2003 each with just 11 kilometers on the clock. in one shed the last convertible to roll off the production line set common in polk in 1979 waxed and still in its original packaging from home. one of his favorites beetle from 1948 popularly known as the pretzel model because of the splits where window. it once belonged to the cathedral provost of

moonstone. 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. they took everything they could get bicycles motorbikes military side cars cars they walled it up between the main building and the outhouse and plan to take it all back to england but the troops were redeployed in 1055 and the cars were forgotten about along with the other vehicles for the remainder fun of caro's. 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 . my arrival to see the beetle already in the clutches of. dickered the roof had already been

crushed and the rear end was next to us i jumped on the car and yelled let the beetle live for the damage was done but we restored every inch bit by bit or we didn't replace a single part or the car had 2050 kilometers on the climate of move all now it's nearly 50000 for told. in order it's still got the original tires from 1948 the rubber has an interior to the authorities always check that grid new and we're allowed to drive it. after the war the bombed out v.w. factory was placed under british military administration the occupiers ridiculed the hunchbacked car as primitive all except one major ivan hurst saw the potential of the nazi product and secured a commission from the british military government in august $945.00 it ordered $20000.00 sedans it was simultaneously the lifesaver and launch pad for a v.w.

. not a british had brought the car to its in austria development center at 1945 and declared it unusable. send it back to the germans it doesn't have 4 doors it has no proper heating no trunk and loud and so on. the erratically 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 that is false is not employed. in 948 the british occupiers appointed hine 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 half made the beatle famous well beyond germany's borders looming exports made for some profits and the newfound wealth made the stars. proud of their factory and new town which was now named both sport. in 1953 just 8 years after the end of the war the 500000th beetle rolled off the production lines by then its nickname had long since been the stone on it by the

americans. back to beetle enthusiastic told us today ah he has set up his workshop in an old wine cellar. his 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 cools type one flat 4 engine has to come out but it only takes the turn of a few screws. yeah be designed as well thought through. and you can get all of the parts very easily. as for listen to the sound it makes. or so the design is

a very basic tool for any such that is also the attraction i would just as. they are narrowly saved this particular hunchback from the junkyard 19 eighty-four model built in mexico like most central american beetles it was used as a taxi only the shell remains but tire has stores in storage along with the chassis with the typical platform frame this one is not as bad as it looks. because these are the is really just the cars bad weather code. could install a seat and connect the steering column and we would practically be ready to go. you know it still works and are still still works i can show you. you just leave electricity and gas thank. you and since springs into life.

in $960.00 s. america a lend of large gas guzzlers the d.w.p. little sold like hotcakes this classless wonder was extremely popular with the mainstream the generation that fought against hitler's germany. where else in the world were more people saw then north america. and 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 a new window or a new fender at the front or back were enough for them to announce a new model and the old one was no longer worth as much as some people had the new one in their driveway so the poor children had to explain why their father still hadn't bought the new model so every day. in the past 25 years we've been testing

and torturing things like gorgon. seeds and shops so no other car goes through so much more slowly. i. to 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 for. one side of the newspaper you had a coca-cola bottle and on the other beatle a name the slogan to shapes known the world over. form and divest cut. meat in the belgian town of spa. not any old meat probably dizziness beetle festival in the world's.

only air cooled engines are allowed on the legendary race track rear 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. from the people 2nd home mexico work continued to be until it was finally discontinued in 2003 after 65 years. crazy. and curious. one of the men in the pits is gay. advisor from just sold or he's been pimping old beatles 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. by say uses it for racing. to. the future the few . who know the most. 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 from these beetles run on 114 octane fuel also known as laughing gas. go but i just from the valley 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 this is starting now it's a shot of adrenaline. because you're concentrated right down to the line you go through your routine. and then the lights go green and your brain switches off and off we. go on dollars for.

drag racing is like a modern day do you will. mark gets off to a terrible start but quickly pulls away. his opponent also driving a bee home doesn't stand a chance. the belts in this hobby his engine didn't blow up which can happen in drag racing. to slow down a little bit of these people also known allowed on the track they're so low that they would ruin the asphalt too so they look like write offs but that's on purpose . too there's room for everyone here including the low bugs as they're called a lot of talk with oh it's $963.00 model with folding roof was done by

a mechanic from frankfurt he bought the car from a senior citizen one careful owner. voice like charcoal she didn't want to sell us so i pulled out all the stops water flowers and by there for coffee i did some sweet talking the interior is from 163 x. i didn't have to touch it so if i get the jackpot with the upholstery speculative the old lady really looked after. the beetle for more than 20000000 produced export it to more than 150 countries. used and abused but always loved. some of the unbelievable someone such a cheap car can do because somehow the beetle always landed on its feet. and even made it as a movie star. if you like it. no

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