When a photo CD of a 1960 Old School looking Beetle, complete with ragtop, dropped on my lap this month I sat bolt upright! 'Cool,' I thought, 'this car is certainly right up my street'. I couldn't get the CD tray open quick enough to get at the goods that lay somewhere on that plastic disc!
As my Macintosh whirred into life and mounted the CD, the first few images began to show up in my browser.
My excitement had been justified. The first image filled my monitor and I began to nod with approval. This was a very nice car, very nice indeed! It had all the right stuff: perfect stance, tucked-in wheels, a much sought after 'vert engine lid, pop-outs, great paint... the more I looked the more I found, and the more I wanted to know about it - as I'm sure you do too. So, without further ado, let me begin.
The Beetle belongs to Scott and Katie Bialik from Glendale, Arizona and has been in Scott's possession for a very long time. In fact, it was his first VW - cool, huh?
His story begins back when he was at high school in the early Nineties. At the time there were at least six early VWs in the car park at any one time, and Scott loved everything about them and set himself a mission to find out as much as he could. He got to know the owners of these cars and made some cool friends in the process.
In the middle of his junior year, 1993, one of the owners of a 1960 Bug was looking into buying a truck - as luck would have it, Scott had just the ticket.
"The next thing I know," said Scott, "we were ditching first period to go and find a notary [a public official] to oversee the exchange of papers."
Over the next few years Scott drove the stock Beetle every day, albeit with an updated 40hp engine. He even started a group with some friends consisting of six pre '67 Beetles. They were all young and constantly learning how to do things to their cars. But there was one lad among them who always figured out the best way to go about carrying out the likes of lowering and engine tune-ups. His name was Brady Goetz.
Naturally, like most high school relationships, the group of lads pretty much went their separate ways after graduation. Still, Scott loved his Beetle and kept hold of it despite the body having seen better days.

For the full story check out the August 2008 issue of VolksWorld magazine. On sale on 11 July and then available through back issues.

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