we consume a clean out. invisible. 45 minutes on d w. in the light of climate change. africa's mix of. what's in store. for the future. costs for the major cities to incite. culture. so every day for the past 25 years we've been testing and torturing things like gorgon just blocks seeds and shops are no other car goes through so much more so let's. just say.

this unique. down to earth. doesn't have 4 doors it doesn't have proper heating it has no trunk. got to keep it up but comes. out on it. for many it was their 1st car and a lifelong love. kind of lifestyle driving a vehicle. keeps on going and going and going. to. town. 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 if not it's not the end of the world but tool maker by trade he can knock them all back into shape even the seemingly hopeless cases. are not. sure it can be junk. and 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 scrappy there but 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 hope 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 too. much more to get it of him have i picked it up in oberhausen from a family that's breaking up it was supposed to get restored but had to be cleaned out and that's how i got the beetle. so i mean today. 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 there's faithful servant has seen better days. or something. 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 into the clear regular running board the doorsill . basically all round. the leaves home you know the

bottom 20 centimeters as they say. what you with us. and our. spy this one it's a question of negotiation now. how could such a basic vehicle with all its limitations define magic and capture 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 stuart it was he who taught the people to crawl and 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. for the guns and it pushed him a lot to be. what it is on a good. bit on the our vision in boys and annoying very. sure in order. that. this is where the story of the people began a v.w. 38 the prototype of the cost. or strength through joy cars as the nazis called the folks. number 6 of just 44 models built by hand developed in 1938 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

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. kettler 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 capital villianous. 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

990 s. 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 of a possible. back then the car belonged to the leading nazi combat lie ahead of the german labor french in the preface to the manual of the so called strength through joy car gosh 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.

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. 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 bigwigs got their hands on the new strength through joy card despite the nazi state's 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 con factory was built in phallus laban now a district of all sport. 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 in general many of them did that either go. on. to either take a cash payment or a corresponding discount on a new car often called. him on his son for most of his savings into his passion for beatles the tired fletcher has been a fan since he married people owner she drove to work in it every day clocking up 300000 kilometers without ever breaking down sat down to have proved. 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.

in order many hours 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 and what we've done 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 with one car from every year beginning to end. it is there anywhere else like it in the world and i don't know i don't think so. 1938 to 2003 that least one beetle from every year of production all in all a grand total of more than $180.00 cars not only is the. every year covered but

there are quite a few brand models to. the last beetle belt involved sport from 1974 . 1 of the legendary now extremely rare black and yellow racers from 1983 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. one of his 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 moonstone. the church official was staying at a test house when the car was stolen by british occupying forces they hid it away in an abandoned distillery. in the novel of mccoy they took everything they could get bicycles motorbikes military side cars cars they walled up between the main building and an 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 for the really wonderful world cardoso. 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.

leave her crown in my right to see the beetle already in the clutches of the diggers the road had already been crushed and the rear end was next i jumped on the car and yelled let the beetle live for me and the damage was done but we restored every engine bit by bit or if we didn't replace a single part or the car had 2050 kilometers on the climate overhaul now it's nearly 50000 for told. in order it still got the original tires from 1948 the rubber has an interior to the authorities always check that group knew and were allowed to drive it. after the war the bomb 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 it ordered 20000 pounds it was simultaneously the lifesaver and launch pad for. the british had brought the car to its in just 30 development center in 1945 and declared it unusable. send it back to the germans it doesn't have 4 doors it has no proper heating it's got no trunk and loud and so on. 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 is false. in

948 the british occupiers appointed nord hoff the new general director. he once said that he had as many flaws as a dog fleas. now he had the staff working in 3 shifts around the clock building the beatles. 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 beetle famous well beyond germany's borders looming exports made for some profits and the newfound wealth made the stuff. proud of their factory and new town which was now named world sport. in 1953 just 80 years after the end of the war the 500000th beetle rolled off the

production lines by then its nickname had long since been that stowed on it by the americans. back to beetle enthusiastic told us today all 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 cools type one flat 4 engine has to come out but it only takes the turn of a few screws. yeah the design is well thought through. and you can get all the parts very easily.

or 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 a 984 model built in mexico like most central american beetles. see only the shell remains but player has stores in storage along with the chassis with a typical platform frame this one is not as bad as it looks. because these are the is really just the cars bad weather code. we could install a seat and connect a steering column and we would practically be ready to go light it still works in order to still works i can show you. you just leave electricity and gas

thank. the engine springs into life. 19 sixties america a load 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. where else in the world were more people saw then north america. like. 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 crumb or a new wing 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. seats and shops no other car goes through so much more so with. the valve a. 2 hour 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 1st of all on one side of the newspaper you had a coca-cola bottle and on the other. a name the slogan 2 shapes known the world over want to order sourced one of the foremen d.d. very. little meat in the belgian town of spa. not

any old meat probably did zaniest beadle festival in the world. only aircooled 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 up a different kind from its heyday in the 1960 s. to the late seventy's when the people was already being written off. there are plenty from the 2nd home mexico work continued to be built until of this finally discontinued in 2003 after 65 years.

khorasan. and serious. one of the men in the pits is gay. advisor from diesel dorotea 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 for. the for. the food.

prices 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 fleet these beetles run on 114 octane fuel also known as laughing gas. go 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 aside and it's a shot of adrenaline. concentrate 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 to school. 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 belts in this hockey his engine didn't blow up which can happen in drag racing the flip side of the slow going to that little bit of these people also known allowed on the track they're so low that they would ruin the asphalt to loose or 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 by a good talk would follow follow this 963 model with folding roof was done by a mechanic from frankfurt he bought the car from a senior citizen one careful owner. to force like charcoal she didn't want to sell it so i pulled out all the stops order flowers and buy their for coffee did some sweet talking the interior is from $963.00 and i didn't have to touch it before i hit the jackpot with the upholstery spirit in the old lady really looked after it for free. 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 people always landed on its feet.

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