Infamous Beetle
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Infamous Beetle
Who did this Beetle belong to, and what is its significance?
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Re: Infamous Beetle
Why........ Dont you know? LOLPine wrote:Who did this Beetle belong to, and what is its significance?
Sorry no Idea, was It Jeremy Clarkson because he needed one with a sunroof? Mitchell
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The one that drove Hector Peterson to hospital?
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Top Gear Botswana Beetle ???
1952 Split Beetle 1835cc
1968 Fastback 2Lt.type4
1972 Low Light Bay Panel Van 2Lt type 4
1975 Fleetline Panel Van 1914cc
2020 MeFusco Beetle Truck 2Lt type 4
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1968 Fastback 2Lt.type4
1972 Low Light Bay Panel Van 2Lt type 4
1975 Fleetline Panel Van 1914cc
2020 MeFusco Beetle Truck 2Lt type 4
1972 FT Hahn SP 1776 cc
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Did it have a sun roof ?retrovan wrote:Top Gear Botswana Beetle ???
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Good guess!!buggyfan wrote:The one that drove Hector Peterson to hospital?
Maybe the car Koos Dup was killed in?
But then again I assume that car was trashed.
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Re: Infamous Beetle
Nope - all wrong. Keep on guessing!
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Re: Infamous Beetle
No VWSA front add-on reflectors, lefthand drive, has US type sealed beams, number "4" sticker on windscreen, on display somewhere...
Not the famous "5th beetle" on the picture of the 4 "singing Beetles" walking over the pedestrian crossing...
Not the Footloose beetle, (that one did'nt have a sunroof)...
So who's beetle was it?
Not the famous "5th beetle" on the picture of the 4 "singing Beetles" walking over the pedestrian crossing...
Not the Footloose beetle, (that one did'nt have a sunroof)...
So who's beetle was it?
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Re: Infamous Beetle
Ted Bundy the serial killer?
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That is correct!!Dawie wrote:Ted Bundy the serial killer?
Your clue was Ed O'Neil in my previous post - he was 'Al Bundy' in the sitcom 'Married with Children'
Ted Bundy's First Arrest:
In August 1975 police attempted to stop Bundy for a driving violation. He aroused suspicion when he tried to get away by turning his car lights off and speeding through stop signs. When he was finally stopped his VW was searched and police found handcuffs, an ice pick, crowbar, pantyhose with eye holes cut out along with other questionable items. They also saw that the front seat on the passenger side of his car was missing. Police arrested Ted Bundy on suspicion of burglary.
Even under a thin, black shroud, the lines of a vintage ‘68 Volkswagen Beetle were unmistakable, writes the Washington Post.
And when the cloth came off, at a bizarre unveiling ceremony Thursday at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment, it took work to be surprised by what was underneath it: an unprepossessing tan Beetle, with a sunroof, looking a little worse for wear with touches of rust, fading paint and a few missing pieces of metal trim.
The tires looked as if they still had a few thousand good miles in them. Inside the cab, the interior had that quintessential old Bug smell — like burning latex — as if the rubber flooring was always smoking a little from the heat underneath.
But this wasn’t any Beetle. This was Ted Bundy’s Beetle, the car into which he lured his victims and in which he killed many of them during a terrifying serial killing spree in the 1970s.
“This was kind of like a death wagon,” said Wyndell C. Watkins Sr., a retired D.C. police deputy chief, who was on hand to help introduce the latest iconic celebrity murder object joining Washington’s museum collections.
The car has been stored in a private collection owned by New York-based Arthur Nash, who owns many of the most grisly objects on display in the museum’s main exhibition. Also from the Nash collection: clown and serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s painter’s box, on display in a room dealing with the unseemly “murderabilia” trade.
Bundy’s VW replaces the 1933 Essex-Terraplane car used as a getaway vehicle by John Dillinger. With Dillinger’s car shipped off to the Southwest terminal of Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport, where it will help present the capital region’s best face to visitors, the crime museum needed a marquee object to grace its front lobby.
Of all of the notorious cars in the world — the white Ford Bronco that O.J. Simpson rode in, the D.C. snipers’ shabby Chevy Caprice retrofitted with gun placements — Bundy’s Bug may be the most notorious because it was so intimately connected to its owner’s crimes. Bundy killed in this car is the frisson you’re supposed to feel when looking at something that was not just a tool, but a container for death.
Compared with the D.C. snipers’ car, on display at the Newseum, Bundy’s VW has the edge of authenticity. The snipers’ car is a mock-up, used at trial, not the actual vehicle from which John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo hunted their victims.
The Bundy car, with a brittle and faded 1976 Utah vehicle inspection sticker (No. 264924) still stuck to its dirty and cracked windshield, was not just the site of murder, but part of the strange, all-American charm and innocence that helped Bundy coerce women to get fatally close to him. It was advertising for a man who made himself an avatar of a free and unfettered age.