stegosaurus VW bug... great last life for a bug too far gone to drive

found on http://www.obviouswinner.com/obvwin/2012/3/28/metal-stegosaurus-volkswagen-beetle.html

the classic self deprecating ads for VW bug

from http://thestreetsofdenver.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-peoples-cartruth-in-advertising.html who has a whole gallery of them

these need to get posted... I have been waiting for the right time.

 I came across this in my neighborhood

 Dodge made a 600ES? Huh,  looks like a late 80's Aries K car

 RARE 1981 corvette, a Duntov Turbo edition. Corvettes were just not going to get turbos according to the GM managers

 Off.. a jag that got a nose job, and looks worse, from http://parkoffka.ru/ who has a lot of great content, but NEVER add a credit to their posts to tell you where they got the stuff they post. I don't like that

 I think the above Ford truck was from one of my favorite Brazilian websites, it's a South American Ford crew cab and maybe not even a pick up bed.

The pancake shaped flying wing V173

not a good flame job

Why do dealerships try this? Making a new car cool takes real art, real design, or real perseverance... a bad flame decal doesn't cut it. A real painted on flamejob might have done it

Stuff that caught my eye at the Irvine Bugorama this past weekend

I've posted about In and Out coming to events before http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/in-and-out-burger-mobile-restaurant-was.html

But didn't find out that they charge 7.50 a burger with these mobile jobbers... I want you to know that a doubel cheeseburger and a coke are less than 5 bucks at the restaurant. It's a damn good deal.





Didn't know what this was, but Steve came through again! It's a Mexican-built Volkswagen "Hormiga" (means ant). They are known in Germany as the EA489 Basistransporter. Between 1976 and 1977, 3,600 of them were built in Puebla, Mexico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_EA489_Basistransporter has more info, and in the Philipines it is called a Trakbayan








Nice clever way of mounting the portable Coleman stove
Lots of vintage coolers in the swap meet area



Above is a very early bug deflector, below is a tag I've never seen before... don't know what it's about. Maybe a customizer? Or a dealership?


Lots of matched luggage sets

Interesting and cool top




When the new Beetle was first sold about 6 years ago, it was instantly the best way to advertise your company... because everyone looked at it. I never see those advertising Beetles anymore



Above is the electric motor that the many batteries up front were connected to