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Looking back on 2021 and my choice for the classic of the year

The year 2021 is over. Despite the pandemic gloom that characterized the past year, everyone involved knew about Auto Motor Klassiek manage to create twelve magazines and countless stories for you. I wore for…

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VW 1302. The first Super Beetle

In 1970 Volkswagen presents its new asset in Beetleland: the 1302. It benefits from a new chassis. Other issues are also addressed with the Super Beetle, which is fed in addition to the 1200 and the 1300. A story about the (more than) 50 year old VW.

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Jaguar XKR. Predatory cat with moth-eaten fur

Abandoned, lost classics are everywhere. Many of those veterans are going 'down the drain'. They are reborn as table bases or coat hangers. But what if you see three of those lost copies in a neatly paved yard behind a nice farmhouse? That is mildly surprising.

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WWII. On to the 76th birthday

We have almost had the Jubilee of the Liberation and 75 years of no war. And in that year we heard a lot of stories and saw classics with a war past. But what is the chance that the wife of 'Reich Commissioner' Seys Inquart drove around in a Beetle from 1940 sometime between 1945-1948?

Dolf Peeters
26 October 2020
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VW TL, the 'Traurige Lösung'?

A VW TL 'Fastback'? That was my first car. I bought it from the garage where my father's 1501 Break was being maintained. As a conscripted soldier, I paid 300 guilders for it. And a well-driving TL for 150 euros?…

Dolf Peeters
3 August, 2020
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VW Beetles from other countries

So the VW, Volkswagen. The Beetle. Despite its unfortunate origins and insect-like pet name (after all, the 'Volkswagen' was an idea of Hitler, an admirer of the also anti-Semitic Henry Ford, and beetles are generally considered scary), the Volkswagen Beetle already had a mythical poetic cult value in the 1960s. Beetles were seen as a symbol of revolution, of 'downsizing' and were happily ridden by flower children. At that time, the Beetle stood for the 'small is beautiful' ethos as stated by EF Schumacher.