Air Cooled Addiction

Men at work in the VW Factory, 1949 Images of Volkswagen employees on the production lines at the Wolfsburg factory 75 years ago. For many of them it was hard manual labour, but there was also time to smile and socialise. Sadly, they are no longer with us, but they live on through the thousands of V...

Wow, that's gorgeous. Have you seen that one in person?

This is the V303/3, the cornerstone convertible that was used to drive AH to the train station after the ceremony on May 26, 1938. Completely hand made as part of the small V303 series of 3 cars. Sometimes mistaken for the VW38/31 AH convertible that he received for his 50th birthday in 1939 and whi...

In the picture you can see a soaked pretzel beetle in a kind of car wash. Apparently the two women on the sides are responsible for the soaking and rinsing of the vehicle. Why is the photo special? Not until the 8th. In August 1962, Johann Sulzberger and Gebhard Weigele patented the first "self...