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America's Favorite Bug Beats Dark Past |
| Section: THE ARTS / DIMENSIONS |
| Author: Stefan Sullivan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,049 Words, 6,420 Characters |
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It was loud, slow and funny looking, a rattling lemon drop of a car with few amenities beyond steering and brakes. Open the hood, and there was no engine. That was in the rear. Air conditioning meant rolling down a stubborn window. An early postwar version featured glue on the interior trim made partly of fish byproducts. What's the opposite of chick magnet?
And, yet, in the 1960s, America embraced the Volkswagen Beetle, making it the best-selling automobile of all time. As Volkswagen America turned fifty, Disney chimed in with the release of a new Herbie movie (Herbie: Fully Loaded), the mystery of how the li'l guy seduced the nation invites some unraveling.
"Without a real car, I'm only half a man," sighed Dean Jones at a turning point in the original Herbie movie, The Lo...
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...ills valet parking. It has neither muscular bravado nor upscale cachet. So if the car makes the man, what kind of man did the Beetle make you? Judging by its many permutations--from a Nazi people's car to a floral-decaled love Bug and finally NASCAR racer--it made you a humble underdog with multiple personalities and a few surprises under the hood.
Copyright © 2007 The Washington Times, LLC.
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