Another top-notch video 👍 The Type 1 Beetle taught me a new word- "Ubiquitous"- which means "seeming to be everywhere". And if you lived in the era you'd understand why. Like the Model T it truly was a car for the masses: cheap to buy, easy to fix, and having good fuel economy too. You couldn't go anywhere without seeing a bunch of them. Odd to me is that now you rarely see one and nice specimens are high-value collectibles. Here's a trivia tidbit: The VW exhaust sounds like no other 4-cylinder for a reason. In designing the engine they found the #3 cylinder overheated so they solved that by firing it's spark 3 degrees earlier than the timing for the other cylinders. Like the rest of the car it was simple engineering that simply worked.

@autochatter

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@thomasschwarting5108

Жыл бұрын

One of the BEST and FAMOUS cars ever built, in my opinion!! I'm remembering the car floating commercial, pretty cool. I have 2 copies of that famous book.

@autochatter

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasschwarting5108 I think I have two copies still in the garage.

@bugnut82

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I still think it's crazy that I can daily drive my 62-year-old VW Bug around town, and up and down the freeways with today's traffic. In some ways I actually think it's easier to drive around town than a modern car, you just sit down turn the key and fires right up the seating position is perfect to view out the window is phenomenal, and just step on the gas and it goes. I get a rush of endorphins as I open up the door and start to sit down in the seat, because driving it truly is one of my favorite things to do. I truly am addicted to driving my bug, if I go more than 2 hours without driving it, I honestly start to feel withdrawals. Like last night for example it was 11:00 p.m., I had nowhere to be besides going to bed, but I literally could not get it out of my head and I had to go just cruise around the block. I mentioned that to some fellow Volkswagen people and turns out I'm not the only one that's that deep into the addiction. But anyways, thanks for your wolf that out comment, it was fun to read.

I owned two of the air-cooled Beetles. Great cars. My son now owns a 2017 Beetle which is pretty fun to drive I have to admit.

@autochatter

5 ай бұрын

It's a shame that the latest Beetle is already gone.

Most interesting video,also , films made in the 60/70 usually had a beetle or two in shot, and a impressive achievement to sell such big numbers ,for a simple piece of engineering. Thank you for Video.Happy 2023.

@autochatter

Жыл бұрын

Hope your new year is great too! Thank you.

@enoz.j3506

Жыл бұрын

@@autochatter Cheers.

Awesome, just found this video and am super excited. I am always looking for new air-cooled vw stuff to watch, and I love these documentary type videos.

@autochatter

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I really enjoyed doing the aircooled VWs.

Great video. I daily a 67 Beetle still, and it mostly keeps up with everyone else still! Also relatively inexpensive to fix and maintain, although it requires more regular maintenance than most other cars these days.

@autochatter

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I like 67s...Nice. Next video this week is about Ghias.

@hobthebob7073

Жыл бұрын

@@autochatter I'll be sure to watch.

@autochatter

Жыл бұрын

@@hobthebob7073 Thanks!

@bugnut82

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! I daily drive my 62 bug, with its 1200 40hp. My drive requires me to go up and down the grapevine in california ( a steep mountain grade).

Good video dude. I might not like that particular car, but you produce quality content.

@autochatter

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for stopping by! Appreciate the praise! To everyone else, checkout Antique Tags channel if your after a healthy dose of 80s or 90s cars!

You may have heard of him! Ha ha ha.

@thomasschwarting5108

Жыл бұрын

Good one!!

@autochatter

Жыл бұрын

Lol..I caught some flack for not mentioning him by name in the dune buggy vid