My son turned 16 but I had told him that he’d need to get a job and start paying for things to have a car, insurance, etc. One thing that the horrors of my 20’s taught me was that this country does a shit poor job of educating teens and college kids about personal finances….

There was much excitement in the mid-90s when Volkswagen unveiled the Concept One as a new Beetle for the 21st Century. I immediately fell in love with all the press photos and wanted one when (and if) it ever came out. By the late 90’s I had finally started to get my shit together as…

There’s not much to say about my 1971 Standard Beetle purchase. In late 1994 I was working with a woman who had a very beat up Beetle that I envied every time she pulled into the parking lot in it. Now this is a period of my life I refer to as The Dark Ages….

My aunt’s red 71 also holds a special place in my heart. I have unfortunately never come across any pictures of it so all I have are my memories. And one memory forever stands out in my mind! Let’s face it… Beetles kinda sucked for heat! And they certainly didn’t have a real front window…

Back in 2017 I found myself spending a lot of time looking at for sale Beetles.  I had not had once since 1995 (a story in itself) and the search for a car for my 16 year old son got my excited again. I was searching for a 74 Super Beetle but ended up getting…

In September of 2017 I purchased a project vehicle, a 1974 1303 VW Super Beetle that I promptly named Żuczek. Żuczek is more or less Polish for “little beetle”. After driving the car home across the state, it became apparent there were far worse problems than I original anticipated. As I started digging into the car, …