When was the first time you had anything to do with a

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Voltswagen Bug ? I never owned one ,,but a guy years ago was wanting to give me one for carpenter work he needed done on his house as a tree clipped the corner off of it.. I think it was a 67
Here is a photo of the first ones to arrive new in my area I lived at in Portland Oregon That year was even before my time of knowing what one was.. .and I wonder what people thought as we had just got done fighting the very people who made this car.. ?

photo from 1953