With Jim’s Audi COAL and the Beetle Clue from yesterday, we officially welcome you to a week of additional coverage on the offerings of Volkswagen and Audi here at CC.
While there were other “people’s cars” on the scene before the Beetle, it’s undeniable that the Volkswagen Type 1, or “Beetle” – despite its very twisted early development and production history – was the car that caught people’s hearts enough to surpass the Ford Model T in sales and enjoy a massive production run of 21,529,464 cars over a 65 year period.
Now lest those of you who are younger, or who never took interest in Volkswagen’s air-cooled offerings despair, we’ll have some water-cooled VW fare, as well as selections from AUDI (which has been a majority-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen since 1966). Not to mention our regularly scheduled selection of Broughams and other eclectic finds from cities, neighborhoods and rural areas around the planet.
So roll your window down a crack to avoid bursting an eardrum when you slam the door and let’s get started!
There is a lot of early Falcon in this view of the Audi roofline, especially past the B pillar.
A couple of neat cars sitting side by side. A moderately upscale German driveway in 1970 I’d imagine.
Why don’t we do an article to eulogize soon to be departed VW Van
http://www.wtop.com/1226/3460770/Hip-No-More
It is finally hanging up the hat in Brazil
Great idea.
We have Brazillian VW vans here I’ll find and shoot one quite different to the German variety they utilise parts from all models.
The later ones are water cooled so they have this odd looking grill on them that makes it look like it was added on at a later time(which it was) but the look grows on you after a while.
A very fetching pair in pastel blue!
I can tell already this week is going to make me miss the ’75 Audi Fox 2 door I had for 2 years in the mid ’90s….I will look for pics and try to post them. The car was truly an oxymoron…a rather amazing POS!
I never worked up much enthusiasm for Audi (unlike Dad who never had one but always wanted one).Beetles on the other hand are something I always liked and still do,I always have a look for a Beetle at a show.Never had a Beetle but I rode in quite a few,my Uncle Larry Dad’s elder brother was the Beetle owner in our family much to everyone’s amazement as he was a merchant sailor during the war and endured the horror of many Arctic convoys and had previously held strong anti German views on anything to do with Germany.One of my favourite Beetles was the Jeans Beetle with a denim interior,very 70s.