- By Herschel D. -
FEBRUARY’S ANSWERS
1. Q: What was the very last model year of the U.S. importation of the Beetle Cabriolet, 1979 or ’80?
A: Early 1980
2. Q: What was the first year that VW made a Camper available in their bus lineup?
A:
1952
3. Q: Name to the month when the VW Karmann Ghia first went on sale.
A: 8/55.
4. Q: When did the Bus get flat, press on hubcaps?
A: 1973.
5. Q: What is a “Model 14” VW?
A: The early designation of the VW convertible which first came out in late 1949.
6. Q: When did the VW Beetle have a single center mounted exhaust pipe?
A: The 1938 KdF-Wagen had only one pipe that lasted through the 1955 Beetle and then later, the then environmentally strangled Beetle, regained a single pipe, that you know is not centered, in 1975.
MARCH’S QUESTIONS
1. What would you say is the first VW ever?
2. Name a color that was never offered on the Beetle until the 1970’s.
3. Ok, I’ve asked this question before, but I’m including it again for newcomers. What does the term “barn door” bus refer, to?
4. Have you noticed that there are not nearly as many post 1967 Type 2 pickup trucks and vans at VW shows, as there are of the pre-‘68 split-window models? There is a reason for that. It was called “The Great Chicken war!” What was that all about?
5. When did the U.S. Beetle first get turn signals mounted on the front fenders?
6. When did the European model get them?
Answers next month, along with new questions.