Despite the fact 62-year-old banker Tim Huestis lives in Nashville, his passion for Volkswagens started thousands of miles away across the pond in Europe.
Said Tim: “My father was in the army and we were stationed in Germany in the early ’70s. As a teenager, I became fascinated with Porsches and old VWs. I remember the dealership in Worms (on the Rhine) having a beautiful Split Window Beetle in their showroom. In Germany my dad first owned a ’62 Beetle, then ‘upgraded’ to a Notchback. When we moved back to Tennessee in 1976 he bought a ’73 Bug and naturally, that was the car I learned to drive in.”
Decades later, in 1995 to be precise, when Tim was in his 30s, he wanted to rekindle his love of old VWs and bought a Bug of his own – a nicely restored ’67 Convertible that he’d seen advertised in VW Trends magazine.
While he liked and while reading stories about Split Window Buses my desire to own one myself was ignited. So I sold the Bug and bought my first Bus, a 1965 21-Window from a guy in Florida.”
