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PUNCH BUGGY RED!

Volkswagen’s original Type 1 Sedan was a basic car. Like Henry’s Model T decades prior, it was simple, affordable, and reliable. The Sedan’s exterior design was also charming, making it a pop culture icon on the silver screen and TV. Better known as the Bug, and Beetle, it was a grocery getter, daily commuter, and vacation cruiser. It even became a fist-clenched adolescent game on many a road trip.

For all that the Sedan was to countless millions, millions more purchased the two-door. Consider: In December 1961, the five-millionth example was built; the 10 millionth came in September 1965. By the summer of 1973, the global sales had eclipsed 20 million, 4.3 million of which had been sold in the States,

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