There is a wee buggy shop on Babcock Road in San Antonio Texas. I drive past quite often. Today I stopped to take a few pikchurs. Here they are. The first one is quite unmistakably a VW Corrado, with the VR6 engine. This was identified by Richard Hammond as a possible future classic.
The next one in line, well the next few ones in line really is a colony of Beetles. From the aircooled, rear engined, utterly adorable old yellow to the new gen red Bug, they are all of them beautiful machines.
And here is another of them old beetles.
Aah, this one appears to be that strangest of creatures - a bastard child between Porsche and VW. One should not scoff. Porsche had a habit of spawning lovechildren with quite a few suitors. Usually the result was something of potency - the Audi RS2 and the Mercedes 500E spring to mind. This was different. The VW/Porsche 914 was conceived as a range topping replacement to the Lovely curvacious Kamann Ghia. This slant nosed targa was the somewhat disappointing result.
In the words of Captain Reynolds.. "shiny".
The last here is another one of them Beetles. We should really have a better collective noun than 'colony'.
And here is another of them old beetles.
The last here is another one of them Beetles. We should really have a better collective noun than 'colony'.
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