Air-cooled Beetles! Nearly 50 years after the last ones were sold in the United States and 23 years since the final Vocho rolled off the Puebla line, they still show up in American self-service car graveyards. Here’s a ’72 Super ragtop in Aurora, Colorado.
This car is one of three early-1970s Beetles ( one Super Beetle convertible, one Beetle convertible, one Beetle sedan) that showed up in adjacent rows within a week of one another.
All three had been stored outdoors for many years, maybe several decades, and all have numerous spare parts inside, among the rodent poop and random trash.
The Super Beetle was a mildly updated version of a design that had been around since the 1938 KdF-Wagen. It had a modern MacPherson strut front suspension instead of the ancient torsion-bar rig in the regular Beetle.
Here’s what the regular Beetle’s front suspension looks like. The idea of the Super Beetle was to …
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Author: Murilee Martin
