The sound, vibration, smell and driving joy of an old Volkswagen Beetle just can't be beat!

He's finally reviewing a proper Porsche :D

I bought my first car, a '65 beetle, in high school three years ago and drive it almost every day. Everything I know about cars now came from wrenching on my bug and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Gets me where I need to go and always puts a smile on peoples faces as you drive by. Wish mine could be as nice as this one but you do what you can with a college budget. As always love your videos and glad to finally see a beetle on here!

Probably the only car in the world that can pull off a vanity plate that just reads its model name. Love it so much!

Yes! The amount of work the owner put into this in the restoration is INSANE! Every little bolt and hose are period correct.

As the owner of a '62 Beetle with a 1600 single port, I do NOT recommend exceeding 65 mph. Above 65, the steering becomes like submitting your computer for an IT service ticket. You may get a response, but it's more likely you won't. Great video Tedward!

I owned a brand new 1973 orange Super Beetle. Most dependable car, never broke down on me leaving me stranded. They came with a tool kit and spare drive belt. They need basic maintenance that is very easy for anyone to do themselves. I dove a total of 90 miles a day to and from work for 8 years in that car. It truly was a people’s car.

LOVE YOUR CAR . I AM AN EIGHTY YEARS YOUNG MAN FROM BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND.. BOUGHT MY FIRST BEETLE IN 1965 AND LOVED IT SO MUCH I ENDED UP WITH FOUR MORE OVER MANY YEARS OF MY YOUTH.. MY LAST ONE IN 1973 WAS AN EXACT REPLICA OF YOUR ORANGE LITTLE GEM... CHERISED MEMORIES OF DAYS LONG AGO.. Eugene Martin.

I have a 74 super beetle, there’s nothing like driving a car you can get every bit out of.. amazing little machines and insanely easy to fix

Out of all the older compact cars you have showcase so far, this one is the most beautiful. The owner did a fantastic job restoring this relic.

What a great palate cleanse, great visibility.

Wow, did this ever get my attention. I bought an exact duplicate to this ‘74 Super Beetle in 1978 from the original owners, my parents’ next door neighbors. It was my second car and I can’t put into words how much enjoyment I got out of that car. My girlfriend and I drove the wheels off of it, but we pampered it. I’ve always missed that little car, and seeing this one restored makes me miss it all the more. Truly one of my favorite cars I’ve ever owned, and I’ve owned a bunch of them.

I know a guy who jammed a Cummins turbo diesel into one of those things. He calls it the drag beetle, the thing's crazy.

I've been waiting for this video! I own a 1973 beetle that I got after my grandfather and I love it to death. I daily drive it, take it on many long road trips and even occasionally track it. This video made my day and made me feel very proud to own one of these. Thank you Tedward! Love from Thailand.

These used to be everywhere! Memories of my childhood and my father driving us in one of these to the aquarium and Museum of Science in Boston.

I love the Beetle. Such a nice classic!

I've never even driven a Beetle, but I've seen so much deep maintenance stuff (Even how to completely rebuild the engine) that I could take the whole thing apart and put it back together.

I had a 68'. Still miss it. All happiness until the old hoses left me stranded with no gas🤣. Some duct tape, maybe some wire, oil and imagination was all you needed to make it anywhere you wanted, and all the buddies you make with a "Vocho"❤

1974 super beetle was my first car I bought in 2016 for $700. I still have drive it to this day.

There is a great book called "Thinking Small" By Andrea Hiott. It's a history of The Beetle from the start until "The New Beetle" of The late 90's that saved VW America. The book gives a lot of context about The Beetle's origins and its rise.

It wasn't the miles per gallon; it was the smiles per gallon. And ... they were fantastic in the snow.

40 years ago, I learned to drive with a Beetle. I would guess now people learn to drive stick with a Civic. VW's were great to learn on because you had to make the car do anything. I remember when ours was replace with 1977 Rabbit 4 speed. It would go, steer and stop with heat available in the winter! I remember the days of wear gloves and a parka inside the car in winter keeping it in neutral until the gearbox warmed up and having a scraper handy to clean the inside of the windshield. But it always started and never got stuck in the snow. I went on a trip once from Ontario to Pennsylvania up and down the hills to State College. We would be going flat out down the hills the watch the speedo dropping up the climbs 50-45-40-35...Some how we made it in one piece.

In 1972 . My 1st NEW CAR was a 1972 "Orange" Super Beetle. 2 weeks into ownership, I rolled it over. State Patrol sates " 4 to 6 rolls". Yes, I was doing 80 mph down hill and ran up on a blind curve known locally as "Blind Mans Curve". It was repaired, but it drove like a matchbox after that. However, I drove that thing for another 6 years. Junked it and bought a Porsche 914-6. That's when the fun really started~~!I'm 70 years young now and I still drive Porsches .. But, it all started with a VW Beetle.

Brings found memories of my old Jeans, Drove it on a daily bases for 3 years as my first car, it was awesome. Sadly was stolen on my 23rd Birthday in 2003 while we were out having a meal and she was later found 10 miles up the road burned to the ground, R.I.P Jeanie

I have a '71 VW Super Beetle, and I love driving it. It gets so much attention every time I drive it.

Love my 74 super slowly restoring it. In between adding parts at least I have got enjoy driving it.

My first new car was a 1975 Le Grande Bug, the blue one. It came with a rosewood dash, rack and pinion steering, sunroof, corduroy/leatherette upholstery, and it was the first year it included fuel injection. The differences between this 74 and my 75, was the rack and pinion steering and the fuel injection which gave it a couple more horsepower. The top speed AND cruising speed was actually 81mph. On a straight flat road. But you could drive them flat out all day, which was maybe barely 4000 rpm. And I took that thing from Vancouver to Mexico, Vancouver to the east coast and back through the Midwest. It was great on the highway, it would just settle down and go for hours. Plus the seats were very comfortable, and you sat quite high. The best car ever.

I bought an orange 1971 Super Beetle in 1989. I love it! I cannot part with it. It is such a great car to drive.

What a wonderful drive in an iconic little car! The owner did a beautiful job on this true and detailed restoration. The sound we hear in this video is exactly the way it was back in the day of the ever willing air cooled engine. I believe the color is “clementine”. Enjoy this Wonderful VW!

This video made me feel nostalgic almost teary eyes. My collage war was 1303s blue. It is still with me but already eating grass. How I was someday to restore my original baby.

I own a '73 Super Beetle, my grandfather gave it to me, and I absolutely love it. I really enjoyed you driving it and making a video of it, you nailed it when it comes to describing the Super Beetle. Nowadays I can't drive it anymore since there are Emissions Restrictions in Barcelona, for now I'm only able to drive it on the weekends, (and from 8pm to 7am everyday) but in 3 years, I won't be able to drive it at all, which makes me sad.

My family had one of these as well, I can almost smell the vinyl :)

A friend of mine had one of these, it felt modern and more spacious with the bubble windshield. It had rock hard Konis, we crossed railways and saw something flew off from the front of the car. Looked like one of the headlamp chrome ring but it was lost anyway. When we arrived we checked the car, and the headlamp was off the bowl, just holding from the wires ready to fall on the road 😂👍. I'll always remember that one

Tedward, i really hoped that you'd get a nice example of one of these for a video when the time came, and feel like it was a good representation of what they are. It's good to see someone talking about how it feels, not just how it looks.

had a 72 super beetle (flat screen) orange ...loved it !

I tried a Beetle years ago. Surprising how many old cars have MUCH better shifters than modern manuals!

In my early driver years, I had a ’73 Super Beetle and a ’70 VW Bus, but I learned to drive a stick in a late 70’s Toyota Corolla. Then perfected my manual driving in the VW Bus. :)

I learned to drive in one of those cars! They are extremely reliable in terms of spares, you can trust going anywhere with these little giant and they are very customizables, well thanks for this video footage!

Im 63 years old. My first car was a 70 bug. I need another one.

I have an orange 74 standard Beetle(and I'm also from Massachusetts). They are fun to drive. They're especially fun on back roads.

I only got to drive one of the 70's beetles once, but it was so much fun.

I used to drive my parents 1953 vw beetle when i was a college, ( High school for you Americans) Loved that car so much❤ Im 62 now and still think of the times driving it.

I had a 72 and 74 Super Beetle. Loved both and wish I still had them around.

6:50 "The brand coined by their leader" was the Kraft durch Freude, the power through joy. Look how well the RAD, the labor union did its job. We should be so lucky.

Tedward, A LOT of people I know learned to drive a manual in a Subie with that neat 'hill holder' clutch. I learned on my grandpa's farm truck, 3 on the tree. Some of my greatest memories. Keep up the great work, man.

I've been putting off fixing a dented fender on my squareback for months because it takes hours and a sledge hammer. Classic VW's are second to classic Volvos when it comes to strength and thats it.

My first car at 16 yrs old in 1990 was a triple black 1979 Super Beetle Convertible with the fuel injected 1600 in Ft Lauderdale. Odometer was broken when I got her at 18k, so I assume at least 118k miles. I learned how to drive stick on that car. Fuel injection gave CONSTANT trouble, so I had it converted to carburetor just before I sold her. Brake pedal had long travel unless I pumped it once, even though I bled & adjusted the shoes. And she was always faster when cold. Throttle cable broke often for unknown reason, so I kept pliers to grab a piece of the cable at the driveshaft hump. Topped out 65 on highway, car would smoke lightly. And when I changed the oil, there would be little pieces of metal in the oil screen, like half a washer or something. But the car kept going. Rode fairly smoothly and peppy and was top-down fun. Got rid of her when the rust got too bad around fender seams. And I liked it when other "original" Beetle drivers would honk and wave when you drove past, but there were much more of the originals on the road then. Thanks for sharing this video!

Tedward, I subscribed because I respect you for saying "Oh YES, I want more GT2 RS in my life" AND yet you appreciate the very real charms of '74 Beetle.

Dude the sound the doors make when closing its soul filling

Beautiful car! Thank for ensuring that the revs of the engine and the whine of the transmission could be heard clearly. t takes me back to my high school years, driving a 1979 triple white cabriolet. That is the one to have, if you can afford about $100K nowadays! The sound was music to my ears. Thank you so much!!!

this second dream car wow such iconic car 🌋

What a beauty and thanks for taking us for a ride in this beautiful Autumns time of last year.

This was fun! And yes, I learned stick on one with very same color.

Vielen Dank für das tolle Video. So einen VW Käfer 1303 LS hatte mein Schwiegervater in den 70'ern, auch in dieser Farbe. Mir gefiel er sehr gut, aber noch besser fand ich seine hübsche und liebe Tochter, von der ich leider schon längere Zeit geschieden bin. Zu unserem gemeinsamen Sohn habe ich leider auch keinen Kontakt mehr.

Thanks for the ride. It really brings back good memories. I had a 1970 1600 Beetle in bright red. It truly was a very fun car to drive.

Thanks so much for this vid….had the same car as my second car and although it was slow as a snail the sound and feeling in this car is something you never forget, you sort of made me relive that.

Got my first car last year for my 16th birthday and it's everything I could have ever wanted. An adorable, white, '92 Volkswagen Beetle from Puebla, Mexico with most of its original parts. It's been heavily modified as it has a new stereo system and a new steering wheel (kinda funny to look at cuz it's a Mercedes steering wheel) but aside from that, it's all there. I absolutely love to drive it and you are 100% correct when you say that it's 1. Inspiring to drive and oozes confidence and 2. Where most people learn to drive manual. I love my Beetle and it will definitely be my firstborn's first car!

I love my '73 Super Beetle. Nothing else like it. As long as they make parts for it, I'll keep driving it.

You can tell by the sound that that car is running great.

Nice vid. Can I just add that my 1973 1303s is never happier than when out on the highway....Don't be scared 😁

I had a 1973 Superbug "L". (1303) his name was Oscar and his colour was Dulon "Flipper Blue". Biggest mistake was selling him.

The Volkswagen Beetle is simply «the car of the cars». 😊🐞🚘

I had a dark blue 1966 1300 beetle which was 6 volt. I loved it. The fuel gauge didn't work, so I had to use a stick to dip the tank which was under the hood at the front. In all the cold winters it never failed to start. I loved the skeletonized ignition key.

Every previous owner talks about the car even decades later and enthusiastically talks about it. I'll probably never rave about my first car 30 years from now, the Peugeot 106, which didn't even officially exist in America. 🙈😂 My mother's first car was also a VW Beetle here in Germany and she still talks about the car. She drove it from 1973-1981 and only gave it up when there were more holes than sheet metal left, thanks to rust. One quirk of the car was that the heating didn't work reliably in the winter, but did in the summer and how much she simply loved the car in contrast to the Ford Escort that my father drove at the time. My uncle had a very serious accident at work in the depths of winter and was brought to a specialized hospital 160 miles away and he stayed there for months, fighting to survive (btw he survived paraplegic). My mother was the oldest of the siblings and was the only one with a driver's license in her family and every Friday she took off work at noon and drove to Hamburg with her mother and two sisters and a trunk full of luggage, the car had never let her down despite temperatures below -5F and high snowpacks.

How did you get the smell to come out of my monitor ? ;-) Ah, memories. Yes you can absolutely do 70 mph and even up a mountain pass if necessary, provided you get a good running start.

I had a '67 Bug and had so much fun working on it and driving it. This "74 Super Beetle s a far cry from the early ones.

So cool! Such a great first car! Dang he’s had it since the year I was born, gorgeous car!

I purchased pretty much the same car, same colour in 1971. In 1972 VW issued the limited edition Weltmeister Beetle in silver blue metallic with sculptured wheels, so I part-exchanged the orange Beetle and bought a Weltmeister. Fabulous car. Later, I had it souped up by Oettinger.

Beautiful restoration! I did learn to drive a manual transmission on a VW (Scirocco) 😊

Oh, I love this! I actually learned to drive on this exact model and year. Love it!

This is my dream car. I will own and drive a VW Beetle one day. 🥰

Pretty sure Adolf’s beetle was called a KDF Wagen. Same argument was heard against Japanese vehicles was heard loud and often when they went on sale in the US. Thanks for the video. Cheers.

I had a 1969 Beetle (in 1984). I drove it from Boston to Denver, 2000 miles. A couple issues; blew a tire in Iowa, fuel pump broke in Nebraska, rusted floopans, heat couldn't be shut off (hot in the Midwest!), running board fell off in Denver but I fixed everything and the car made it!!

Thanks for reviewing the super beetle! That's just what I was looking for, and I got it from a channel I subscribe to!

I think most americans are not aware, how predominant this car was in germany. My grandpas first car was a Käfer in 1958, both of my parents had one as a first car in the late 80s, and my grandparents used to have a tuned convertible Käfer to drive besides my grandpas golden 500 SEL lol.

My mom bought a Beetle brand new back in the day. She said she loved that car and it had excellent traction in the snow. She said she'd pass much bigger cars with V8's that were stuck in the snow. Unfortunately a pickup truck hit her and climbed on top of it and totalled it. My mom was completely fine though. She was coming back from the grocery store and had a jar of tomato sauce fly up and bust all over her. She said when the paramedics arrived they were shocked because they thought she was covered in blood until they got a closer look lol.

Brings me back to my first car, an orange 72 Super Beetle. This is such a wonderful restoration! Great work!

I have a VW Beetle from México which my dad drove from Pue, MX to IN, US and it's still here in our house it's been chilling in our garage an sinc we started building a bathroom in our garage the VW beetle has been taking in more sun

Watching this legend in my 65 old rusty ass bettle 🥲

I am glad you mentioned the differences between the regular Beetle and the Super Beetle. Majority of people don’t have a clue.

I can smell that interior through the internet.

Brings back lots of memories. I had a '74 Superbeetle exactly like that back in the early 2000's except mine was Marina Blue (light blue). Mine wasn't nearly in as good condition. Fun little car, I miss it sometimes. I'm surprised they left the EGR valve on. That was the last year before VW put in fuel injection and catalytic converters, you can tell 1975 and later at a distance by the single tailpipe.

Thank you for those memories. I owned a "Panorama Big Boxer" 1303 LS as my 2nd car in my life. Colour was "Saharabeige". I drove it one year between northern rhineland and bavaria without any problems. Only in autumn you had to take care, when there were wet leafs on the road.

that beetle is a real master classic car. i love classic cars they have a kind of SOUL. thanks man.

My favorite car was my first car, the family's 1956 VW Convertible that my father bought in Germany. I drove it for 12 years until I no longer could get parts or any intelligent mechanic to service the car... it was a very sad day when I had to sell the car in 1986. Yes, the car was grossly underpowered, it had the notorious suspension tuck if you took a corner too fast, the wipers wiped at a glacial slow speed, and the heater only put out heat on a hot day. But on the other-hand with the thick rubber on the polyester tires it rode actually better than my two Prius's, the visibility was actually pretty good, I could carry five in a pinch (the convertible had lots more head room than the sedan), the tube-type radio had a warm mellow sound from a large center speaker (not available on new VWs including the Super Beetles), and the car had a secret fuel reserve tank. Because the engine was rebuilt in the 1970s, I had the heavy rubber firewall insulation made for the Super Beetle so the engine noise was muted more like a modern Subaru. I miss old cars from the 50s and 60s for each model had a distinct identity - one could say that Joe Blow had a Plymouth, or a Ford, or a Datsun, or an Edsel --- the styling doesn't look like that it came from the same mold that all SUVs seem to be made from.

I had one just like this in 73, great car

Love a review of a nice, unassuming, simple classic like this one. 😗

I love the VW beetle. My grandfather has been working on them for 50+ years. My earliest clear memories are beetles! My first car (still is) was a 67’ Beetle that I bought for 1500 bucks from an old lady in upstate NY. After a total engine rebuild or two. And a lot of time, she runs like nothing on the road! She is no show piece, but I love her! I have a video on my channel if you want to see it drive around my area!

Had a 74 super beetle convertible- still miss when I sold it in 1985.

Compared to my Dad's old 1959 and 1965 Beetles that are long gone now, this 1974 Super Beetle seems to be very high end. Cool.

As a fellow Beetle owner (one that admittedly isn't reallly in the best condition).. this video has been very inspirational! I love that 1600!

I’ve always had a passion for cars that exist for the sole purpose of getting somewhere else. This, the Fiat 500, the 2CV etc. Very little else besides a motor and some seats.

Your guess was spot on I learned to drive stick on a 1974 VW Beetle, great little cars. They're like gokarts.

One of the greatest Volkswagen cars We must Respect this car

I drove a Super Beetle from Orange Beach, AL to Nivarre, FL. It drove smoother than my (new at the time), ‘91 Toyota pickup!

I had a 1973 Super Beetle in that exact color. Went through snow better than anything I’ve driven since. Lifted 4x4 included.

I had a '74 Beetle in High School. Great memories, if you know what I mean.

The first car in my family that I remember was a 1200 "normal" Beetle. As a little child and sitting on the baby seat, due to the curve of the roof I could easily see the world from the rear window. I mostly saw trees and large and high advertising signs. I perfectly remember that I could recognize the last turn before arriving home from a certain advertising sign (couldn't read it but could obviously recognise it). I was three years old, I went to the new house when I was 3 years and 3 months, so all those recollections are before that. I could also see outside from the sides but not well, basically I could see tall buildings and I could see well on steep downhills (the new house is on a steep downhill, I write from there) the road in front of the car, but not really well on the sides. I remember awful trips on mountain roads on the rear baby seat of the Beetle, made you feel you wanted to throw off. Thinking about it now, magic car, I dreamt about being grown up and able to drive a Maggiolino (the "Beetle" in Italian). A few years later, after an inconsequential road accident at low speed (I "flew" on the front seats near the gear lever) dad bought a second-hand Ford Taunus 15m TS 2-doors, which could more easily accommodate three adults (we had a "nanny") and three children. Beetles remained decently successful in Italy considering they were foreign cars, but the "super Beetle" was known to be very thirsty, which spelled its end during the oil crisis in 1974. As a side note, my father told me much later that it was out of question that my Granddad's FIAT 1100 was a better car than his 1200 Beetle. The Beetle was seen as a relatively cheap reliable car, but the 1100 was much sportier and much more fun to drive, and much better when you had to overcome one of those slow trucks.

A 1973 Super Beetle was the first car I bought. I don't how many trips I made between Fort Meade and my home in Kentucky and back, but I bet it was close to 100. Once I put on radial tires it really could handle and brake better. The cool thing about the car was that I could take out the rear seat bottom and I made a wooded bike rack that could hold two bicycles. I had to let the car go at about 110,000 miles as the engine was on its last legs. It would have cost more to replace or rebuild the engine. Those air-cooled engines could not last forever due high engine heat. My mechanic said it was better to sell it and get something new, unfortunately I bought a 1978 Civic. I should have kept the Beetle, as I had more trouble with the Honda than the VW. I wish I had kept the VW.

This video is just that much more of motivation for me to finally get my 1973 vw super beetle back in road it won’t be fully restored but I’m hoping to get it to a good reliable driver status so I can enjoy it this summer