Tag: VW

VW Lead Sled Beetle

Not exactly a rat rod, but still cool. [Found here via here.]

Volkswagen All Terrain Camper

[Found here. I don’t care if that’s A.I. I want one.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 820 – Magic Mirror, Roadslide Attraction & A Subterranean Beetle

[Found here, here and here.]

Pantagruelian Hot Links

Boombada, Les Baxter (1960) From the great 1988 compilation album Swing For A Crime, this recording includes an intro clip from The Big Heat (1953), featuring Lee Marvin being firm but gentle, and then just firm.

Seahorse.

It was hot.

Dot Matrix.

Quiet modesty.

Do the Electric Clam.

Advertising honesty.

The cause of the fires.

Chiropractors be like..

Lab-grown meat looks real.

Humane Resources & Failed Interviews.

250 photo I.D. badges [via Mme. Jujujive].

A phenakistiscope of rats [via Memo Of The Air].

The first flower grown in space [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Background story on that 2012 Ratrod unknown, found here via Tineye.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Update: Twitter now requires you to have an account and log in before you can see linked tweets. What a shame.

VWtf Space Heater

[Found here.]

Roly-Poly Bug

[Found in here.]

Microbusters

[Images found here via here. More VW stuff here.]

Bug

[Found in here. Also added a new category for all things Volkswagenish.]

Floodwaterbug

…with a California handicap license plate. Step right up. 😀

[Found here.]

Buy a bug or shoot the mule. Your choice.

   Three years back, the Hinsleys of Dora, Missouri, had a tough decision to make.
   To buy a new mule.
   Or invest in a used bug.
   They weighed the two possibilities.
First there was the problem of the bitter Ozark winters. Tough on a warm-blooded mule. Not so tough on an air-cooled VW.
   Then, what about the eating habits of the two contenders? Hay vs. gasoline.
   As Mr. Hinsley puts it: “I get over eighty miles out of a dollar’s worth of gas and I get where I want to go a lot quicker.”
   Then there’s the road leading to their cabin. Many a mule pulling a wagon and many a conventional automobile has spent many an hour stuck in the mud.
   As for shelter, a mule needs a barn. A bug doesn’t. “It just sets out there all day and the paint job looks near as good as the day we got it.”
   Finally, there was maintenance to think about. When a mule breaks down, there’s only one thing to do: Shoot it.
  But if and when their bug breaks down, the Hinsleys have a Volkswagen dealer only two gallons away.

[Genuine VW ad found here.]