VW Beetle Gold Portfolio 1968-1991 [Paperback]

R.M. Clarke (Compiler)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 20, 1993

Continuing the story of the Beetle, this book contains 47 articles cove ring road and competition tests, tech. data, buying used, updates, owners survey, touring. Models 1300, 1500, 1600, Super, Convertible. '

Product Details

• Paperback: 172 pages
• Publisher: Brooklands Books Ltd. (June 20, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1855201933
• ISBN-13: 978-1855201934
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,970,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for collectors and enthusiasts, March 30, 2010

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This review is from: VW Beetle Gold Portfolio 1968-1991 (Paperback)

This book contains a huge set of articles and material collected from many car magazines about Beetle, from 1968 to 1991. The style used to create page layouts remembers old magazines from early 70's, like you have cutted the original magazines and pasted it into the book - and it helps to create a "vintage air" to the readers. The index says from what magazine every material was collected, in a cronological order.

For me, a brazilian VW Beetle enthusiast, this book was an amazing surprise: first, i got the opportunity to get material from foreign magazines to compare them with the material produced by brazilian magazine "Quatro Rodas" (means "Four Wheels" in English) about our many generations of Beetle (1200, 1300, 1300L, 1500 and 1600, from 1960 to 1996). Second, this book add a new perspective for my Beetle research, because brings me a new vision for the "global" VW Beetle, not only the versions produced in Brazil (i.e.: we didn'h have a 1303 Super Beetle version made in Brazil; the McPherson suspension, electronic fuel injection, automactic gear, safety bumpers and other improvements never came to Brazil).

If you want to have a collection of good material about the "modern" Beetle from many magazines in a single book, buy it!