VW Beetle

The VW Beetle has such a wonderful history and I am so proud every time I get behind the wheel of my Beetle. Lots of people do not know this but the VW Beetle has been around for about seventy years. How many cars still in production today can say that? I cannot think of any. I have always wondered how it is that some cars like the VW Beetle stand the test of time and other types of cars do not. The answer that I keep coming back to is that the VW Beetle has a personality. Most cars are just a piece of machinery with nuts and bolts and gas and oil but none of them seem to have feelings or personality quite like the VW Beetle. When I go into my garage and look at my VW Beetle I actually hear a small voice in my head greet me as if to say come on in and drive me. The VW Beetle wants to hit the road and be driven. My VW Beetle is named Gary as I have had Gary for about twenty five years. When I got my VW Beetle I could not drive him for about six months. Gary needed a ton of work and I spent every last penny I could over many months to give the car what it needed. Gary had a perky happy personality and wanted more than anything to get out on the road and drive. The problem was that I had to spend a lot of time getting the car ready to go. I spent the majority of my time trying t locate VW auto parts. These days there are no real problems finding auto parts for all types of cars. Actually one of the easiest types of parts to find is those for the VW Beetle. This was not the case. I spent every weekend day that I could scouring junkyards trying to find exactly what I was looking for. Over months poor Gary the VW Beetle looked like a patch work quilt and I think by the time I finished with him he was about five different colors. I found a hood from a green VW Beetle and then found the passenger door from a yellow VW Beetle. That was the first pair of pieces I found for him. The next piece was a driver door from a black VW Beetle. That part I had to call around for and ended up driving to a VW junkyard an hour from my house to get a hold of. The next piece I found was the driver door that too was from a yellow VW Beetle but the yellows did not even match. I found a fender from a blue VW Beetle and that completed the outside of Gary. Poor Gary was a mess but he was coming together. I had the opportunity to finally see my beautiful VW Beetle in all of its glory.

I will not bore you with the story of the interior but I got those parts from a ton of different VW Beetles as well. My VW Beetle looked like a Frankenstein but oh how wonderful it was. I then had to decide what color to paint my Beetle. I thought of a lot of the colors that were available at the time and decided that my VW Beetle had to be the brightest red that I could get. I figured that my VW Beetle was stuck looking terrible for far too long that now that it was a perfect looking car it had to be bold and give the car a chance to stand out in a crowd. That is just what I did. I got Gary painted to be the brightest most beautiful VW Beetle I have ever seen. I have been driving this VW Beetle for years now and have a smile on my face every time I drive it. Since then I have collected a handful of VW Beetles but none of them required the amount of time and money that Gary did. I am proud every time I look at that wonderful little VW Beetle and he will always have a special place in my heart.

Fellow VW Beetle owners and lover I applaud you for sticking with the Beetle and giving it such a rich history and a bright future. Forever live the VW Beetle, hooray!