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“Classic Car Diaries: The Iconic Beetle” – by Des Kelly

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“Classic Car Diaries: The Iconic Beetle” – by Des Kelly

Once again, something quite different for our e’Lanka Members & Readers. All about the old “Beetle” automobile, the car that was first brought out by Adolph Hitler for the German People & no-one else. It was a car, totally manufactured in Germany, under the watchful eye of the Fuherer himself, and this is what makes the story even more interesting. Very few people, not even the Character who owned the little car publicised, seemed to know something about the Beetle, that I am now about to divulge to our readers. I once owned a Beetle, many moons ago and checked this amazing little fact out myself. I had the car fully hoisted in a Service Establishment and personally did spin each tyre around to notice the VW emblem thereon, which then turned out to be a fully fledged “Swastika” cleverly embedded on each tyre, something that old Adolph himself had ordered simply as a clever copyright, coming from him.

I have to add, that of all the cars I did own, this ‘bug’ was possibly the most reliable car I drove, so I checked with all my friends who also had one, and they assured me of the fact that this VW Vehicle could be driven without fear of a breakdown, for years, given it had petrol in the tank at its forefront, the entire engine being at the rear of the car. It was, in my opinion, one of the ‘good things’ that Hitler did for his People.

So now, this is another interesting fact that our e’Lanka readers are aware of.

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