vintage vw beetle commercial: a true story!

[73VWsuper]

thats not a 74 bug in the video

[exquisiteoaf]

Where the hell did the people who did this commercial dig up their audio from? A Beetle engine doesn't sound anything like that.

[TheAnnaShowUk]

Poor devil, didn't see the corpse in the passenger seat tho did he lol.

[Wash9102]

They find a random car in the snow but better yet, they have the keys to it. LOL

[ndawg79]

My car does that now.....

[slayterm13]

omfg why r u all so negative



[caganb]

Crappy car got stuck in a little storm

[2000jago]

So they just stole the car? Who was the owner and why'd he leave the keys in the ignition? What did he do with the car after he drove away smiling into the sunset?

[caganb]

They were shoveling the snow from the car with metal shovels. I think they scratched it.

[rainfice0629]

@caganb Man... a friend of mine stopped by one night a few years ago. We had a bad snow storm and he ended up spending the night. The next morning he helped me shovel the driveway. I went in the house to grab something, and when I came out, dude was shovelling my car, with a beat up old aluminum snow shovel. You know the way the edge gets over the years, jagged and kind of melted looking? Ya. Big scratches. I still cringe when I think about that. I'd always known he was an idiot, but holy shit.

[aafkgirl91]

That's what I call a real beetle

[rsandoval89]

Lets see a pinto do that :-)

[TheIDCLeader]

It's probably real.

When I was young I really wanted a beetle, so my dad got a hold of an old one sitting at a farm that was sitting for at least 20-30 years, he changed the oil and put fresh gas in and it started, then he stored it on a farm because I was six at the time.

Then after ten more years of sitting the thing started up again, those things just keep on running. The floor literally rusted away before the engine broke down, and it still runs to this day.

[twiggyzappa]

Did he just steal that car?

[LewistonLolly]

That's not a beetle. It's a bug. A beetle is a different body style entirely.

[wordreet]

@LewistonLolly Are you sure about that? :¬)

[cuasipornio]

@LewistonLolly Are you 8 years old?

[luedriver]

i actually had a dream just like this a while back...

a beetle covered in snow and when i got in there was no steering wheel but it just started up and left just as easy....

[volvoturboman]

Well if that really is true, I want to know who made the battery cause i want one in my car.

[77toyota]

i was expecting to see someone still alive in it .... ohh well

[djstover2003]

what alot of people dont get is that these motors was not just air cooled, they were also oil cooled

[beetlejuice150]

@djstover2003 :

I agree, in the end every car is oil cooled. When an engine is overheated, we mean that the temperature of the oil is too high.

[onelegout]

@beetlejuice150

This is true, although less than 10% of the heat energy produced is released via the oil cooler, also it's worth clarifying that the oil cooler is to keep the oil cool, not the engine its self - the engine is air cooled, the oil is cooled via an oil cooler.

[sourhippo]

@beetlejuice150 its aircooled, the air is cooling the oil. like in a watercooled car the water is cooling the oil. the oil temperature is the variable we are controlling with a cooling system.

[Tryvaltor]

@beetlejuice150 True, at too high a temperature, oil becomes too thin and loses its lubricating qualities as well as its cooling properties.

[xoxoXoieoxox]

@beetlejuice150 acctualy essenaly all engins are air cooled b\c the radiator weather it has oil or water in it is still beeing cooled by air (exsept marine motors) =3-

[volkscom]

@xoxoXoieoxox i dont think so timmy

[xoxoXoieoxox]

@volkscom so how do u think it works??? O.o

[FlipFusel]

@djstover2003 :

thats not right. the air cools the oil, so its just aircooled.

at other motor concepts, the water cooles the oil, so they are watercooled.

[offroadfurry197]

i wish i could find a lambo like that :/

[masterpoop67]

i have the exact same car as in the comercial cept mine was yellow

[Beethoven80]

Where did he have the key from? :-)

[frosty9595]

That much snow isnt a big deal other then possibly crushing the car... its the battery going dead or other things freezing up... If the battery was fully charged when it got covered though there is very little chance it would be dead by the time they uncovered it.

[ps3scott]

@frosty9595 well the reason why its such a big deal is because vw bugs didnt have water cooling so..when it got real cold the motor never went out

[frosty9595]

@ps3scott Cooling has nothing to do with the ability to start after sitting in the cold... In fact a water cooled engine would warm up quicker due to the thermostat and run better sooner then a air cooled engine that has no control over the cooling.

[ps3scott]

@frosty9595 back in the 70's water cooled motors wouldnt run in the cold becasue the froze up in the motor

[frosty9595]

@ps3scott Ever herd of antifreeze? Its a pretty awesome thing. It somehow stops water from freezing! They have had it pretty much since water cooled motors were available... Well that makes sense considering the engine block would crack if the coolant froze.

[svtcontour]

@frosty9595 Its aircooled. What antifreeze?

[frosty9595]

@svtcontour Im well aware it was aircooled. I was replying to ps3scott's comment on liquid cooled cars in the 70's

[svtcontour]

@frosty9595 Oh I see.  That makes sense now.

[pedekiller]

@frosty9595 aircooled idiot hehe

[frosty9595]

@pedekiller Im well aware it was aircooled. I was replying to ps3scott's comment on liquid cooled cars in the 70's

[pedekiller]

@frosty9595 sorry, still a fair effort even if it is dramatised. i'd say the battery would need to be pre-heated and charged for it to work since lead acid batts suck in the cold.

[inchikiAHO]

What was that storm termed? "The worst ever". lol Whoa, mates. Really racked your heads on that one, eh! haha

[jenzeppelin]

go go go the little car that could. i wonder about how true this is though. a car, under snow, for that long...the battery?

[nickrulez809765]

stranger things have happened its theoretically possible but unlikely

[esheep4]

he got a free car

[RSXguy2]

i can vouch for this commercial.. mine has been sitting since sept and i just put some gas in this morning and away she went.. was shure i was going to need to charge the battery but she surprised me..

[6stringedkiller]

so on November 28th 1970 they uncovered a 1974 Volkswagen? And it still ran?!

time travel is real

[KassanderMinoer]

@6stringedkiller

No, it was a 1966/1967 model VW 1300.

:-)

[errant3]

no, one car did that.... and for 74 they adv. the insurance....... the bug was on the market since ww2....

[Dylan1191698]

Its a 60's model, look at the bumpers.

[yougotbeef50]

i have one!!1974 :P

[ChuddleBuggy]

Case=Magnesium

Pistons=Aluminum

Cylinders=Steel

[RossKamina]

So what are you referring to here, the case or the cylinders/pistons? I ask because no aircooled VW ever had an Iron case.

[74project]

omg lololol

[RossKamina]

I don't get the connection between the 74 model year and 67 Bug, its unusual of a VW ad to be anything less than precise.

[hatemf23]

I dont know what precise means but it impreesed me, makes me want a beetle :)

[InfiniteMushroom]

@RossKamina The narrator mentioned that the snow storm was in 1970.

The commercial implies that if an abandoned '67 VW can start up after being buried for six months, then the same car company can sell you the same quality in a 1974 Beetle.

[mipmipmipmipmip]

Computer analysis! Neat!

[g0fvt]

Computer Analysis I think refers to the connector they had fitted in the engine bay, my father bought a camper new in 1971 that had one. I think the connector was less reliable than the electrics it was used to check!

[Alisterwolf66]

Yep! You are exactly right.

In the Type 1s (like my Italian-market '74 1303), the connector is located on the driver's side of the engine bay, mounted to the bulkhead above the shroud. It was connected to the ignition system and had a flywheel sensor (almost identical to a crank trigger or ABS sensor setup).

[archerrobinhood]

with computer analysis?!! wats that?

[vwbeetleowner]

did that happen?

[GereDJ]

Another neat thing about this commercial is the authentic engine sound when the 67 Bug drives away! That's exactly what they sounded like, a smooth purr of the first year 1500cc flat four; a sound time capsule. Bugs were designed for cold weather, but can vapor lock in hot weather, as any old car does.

[GereDJ]

This 1974 Bug TV commercial recreates a 1970 incident of a Bug being buried in mountain blizzard. The Bug used in the spot is a 1967. It is unmistakable because of the reverse lights and the tapered rear bumper overriders only found on 1967 Bugs. I know, I have 3, 67 Bugs. My 67 Bug was also completely buried one winter up at Big Bear near Los Angeles and also started right up after we dug it out. You could still see the Bug shape under about three feet of snow, and no dents. Great memory.

[AKSquirrel]

Could be a 68, or a 69.

Ive got a 68 and it looks like that one...aside from the Rolls Royce body kit.

[LeviMan2001]

haha, rolls royce body kit!? ooh you're in alaska, northern beetles whoo!

[quirpco]

Wow...and not a single dent on the roof or hood from the weight of all that snow & ice!

[bobsnackattack]

won't happen, not with the old bugs.

[OnenessGodhead]

I could stand on the roof of my 72 near the drip guards and it wouldn't dent

[bluemax111f]

No mention of the dead bodies found stiff in that bug?

[quirpco]

yeah, no kidding.

[luccaskunk]

It's actually not that big of a surprise... My 1975 Superbeetle does the same. We get snowed in and I'm the only one that can go anywhere. Air cooled engines don't have any problem starting up in cold weather. Bit of a problem in hot weather, but mine has a magnesium engine so it doesn't have a problem in hot weather either :)

[1972volkswagen]

it's not that big of a suprise to me, either. my 1972 super beetle started when we got 10 inches of snow (here in kentucky that's a lot of snow) and when the temp was -4. the car had so much snow on it, the engine lid froze shut, and the door lock froze open when we opened it. there was too much snow to move the car, but it started withoug hesitating.

[HeadNr4]

You drive your bug in winter? omg

[nlopatosky]

Aren't they all magnesium?

[luccaskunk]

No, the stock engines are cast iron.

[RossKamina]

No, no they weren't. They were a magnesium alloy blend.

[luccaskunk]

No, they weren't. The magnesium alluminum alloy engines were usually after market only. The engines the bugs shipped with had cylinders that were cast iron with cast aluminum for the pistons. Of course I may be speaking of a different era than you are.

[maraujo1984]

Maybe it's a true story...! Many people had a big surprice like this in a VW Beetle!!! :D