Interesting Beetle info......Torch...?

"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike) 09/11/2015 at 12:08 • Filed to: None

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Once again something I found while working on the digitization project I’ve been part of at the local newspaper...this article was in the “Automotive” section of the Bridgewater Bulletin - Wednesday, August 9, 1972 Vol. 85 No. 10, pg. 7.

It’s a spec/model of classic Beetle that I’ve never heard of before! We all know about the later Super Beetle, but this model was a limited edition 1 of 1000. Interesting read! :)

This is what it would’ve looked like with it’s special paint and rims:

Torchbait, I guess, but I am sure he already knows about it! :P

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/11/2015 at 12:17

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I want to know more about that Computerized Self Analysis System.

Berang > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/11/2015 at 12:23

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VW made a lot of “special“ editions in the 70s when beetle sales were falling fast.

There was the sun bug.

There was the jeans bug.

Champagne edition.

And tons of others we’ve all forgotten about because they were mostly just something to do with a special paint color or a badge and nothing else. But luckily, somebody has made a site for all of these, which I have just found thanks to googling the ones I still remembered:

http://www.sebeetles.com/

vicali > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/11/2015 at 12:28

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There was one local for $1000 a few months ago but, ... ugh super. The wheels are nice though.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/11/2015 at 12:54

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Übel > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 09/11/2015 at 13:14

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Think really really early OBDII. There’s a big ass plug in the engine bay that monitors a couple things and you could plug it into a bigass machine that reads it and gives you a printout that tells you not much. My Ghia has it, and really all it is is a major source of me going “is this wire important?”and generally confusing me.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Übel 09/11/2015 at 13:58

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Sounds to me like VW’s history of needlessly overcomplicated wiring schemes started way earlier than I thought.

Übel > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 09/11/2015 at 15:01

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Once you know what it is, it’s really not bad, only a couple sensors here and there and it has no effect on the actual running of the vehicle.

Up until that point, you’re going to be totally friggin baffled as to why your original spark plug wires have an inductive coil sensor on the #1 wire and the replacements do not. Also the wires that used to lead to the battery tester built into period VW batteries, but now just dangle loose in the engine bay are equally confusing.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 09/11/2015 at 16:55

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Cool, didn’t know there were so many special editions! I like classic Beetles, but I’ve never fallen for them as I have for older French, Italian, Czech and East German stuff (the Trabant especially!)

Still kinda cool! :)