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Shuler himself owned the red 1967 VW Beetle that crowned the sculpture. [5] The foundation of the sculpture reached nearly 30 feet into the ground; the cost of erecting it was over $75,000. [ 6 ] The sculpture has been featured in the film Wayne's World , on the cover of a book, [ 7 ] on postcards, state tourist brochures, and maps.
Sutherland's Volkswagen, or the Utah VW Bug, is a 3D model. It is a mathematical model of a 1967 Volkswagen Beetle and one of the earliest 3D computer models, aside from Catmull's hand . The Volkswagen model was created by students [ 1 ] of Professor Ivan Sutherland in 1972 [ 2 ] at the University of Utah .
Suspension front and rear was by transverse torsion springs and trailing arms, but with the trailing arms from the first-generation Type 2 T1 (1950–1967) at the front and the portal axles used on both the Type 82 Kübelwagen and early Type 2 on the rear hubs. These two changes combined to raise the ride height to 230 mm (9.1 in).
A Baja Bug is an original Volkswagen Beetle modified as an all-terrain vehicle to operate off-road (open desert, sand dunes and beaches), although other versions of air-cooled Volkswagens are sometimes modified as well. Baja bugs often race in off-road desert races such as the Baja 1000.
On 10 January 1980, the final Beetle convertible of 330,281 rolled off the production line at the Karmann facility in Osnabrück. [120] [121] It was the most successful convertible for a long time and was replaced by the first Golf cabriolet in 1979. [102] [111] The number of Beetle units sold by Volkswagen was at its lowest in the 1980s.
The 1955 Type 14 Karmann Ghia was just the second Volkswagen passenger car ever produced, after the Beetle, and launched six years before the Type 3 notchbacks, fastbacks and Variants (squarebacks). They were faster and more expensive than the Beetle, but very cramped in the back, despite their wider, postwar and nearly slabsided body design.
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When BMX-loving couple Jake and Emma hit up the Wrench garage to help them pimp their 1966 VW Betty the Beetle, they had a complete facelift in mind. And, it wasn’t long before this bug got the biggest pimping—taking her from Ugly Betty to Betty the Beautiful, with an all-star revamp complete with a bespoke BMX roof rack found on eBay! [7]