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My bug : for everyone who owned, loved, or shared a VW Beetle-- true tales of the car that defined a generation / edited by Michael J. Rosen.

Rosen, Michael J., 1954- (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 1579651356
  • ISBN: 9781579651350
  • Physical Description: 159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Artisan, [1999]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Shape of the Future / David Citino 14 -- Stone VW / Stephen Gibian 15 -- How I Got the Bug in My Eye / Peter Aschwanden 18 -- Give Me A Brake / George Plimpton 23 -- Frozen Bug / Chris Demarest 24 -- Thinking Small / The VW Ad Campaign 27 -- Rum-Running / Robert Inderman 30 -- Frankenbeetle / Glenn Sheller 31 -- What's That Beetle Smell? / Our Resident Mechanic Explains by Gary (of Gary's Driveway VW Repair) 33 -- George Booth's Bug / George Booth 34 -- Accidents Will Happen / Shirley Gromen 35 -- Nineteen Sixty-Four or Thereabouts / Victoria Chess 37 -- Hmmz / Leslie Tryon 38 -- A Few Memorable Moments in the Beetle's Life History 40 -- Riding Wedgie / Danny Shanahan 44 -- Lindbergh's Cockpit / Reeve Lindbergh 46 -- Day My Key Chain Caught Fire / Robin Clements 46 -- Forward or Backward? / David Halberstam 48 -- Speckled, Rusted, Salted, Battered, Blistered, Trusty Bug / Andrew Hudgins 49 -- Warhol's Side / Armistead Maupin 52 -- Float Some, Jet Some / Our Resident Mechanic Explains by Gary (of Gary's Driveway VW Repair) 53 -- Le Coccinelle / Robert Canzoneri 54 -- Bugs on Film / Jeroen Van Erp 56 -- Want A Lift? / Jill Charboneau 58 -- A Few Satisfied Beetle Owners 60 -- Cross-Country Playpen / Floyd Benzing 62 -- It Ain't Mine, Babe / James Cummins 63 -- Living Large / Seymour Chwast 66 -- Dave the Jack / Max Grover 66 -- There's Just Something About Bugs / Tracey Sonneborn 68 -- Prom Night Beetle / Eleanor Herman 69 -- 8 Unmistakable Things About My VW / Kathleen S. Hoernig 70 -- Top Ten Beetle Books for Roadside Reading 72 -- Baby-Sitting Beetle / Craig Merrow 73 -- Border-Jumping Bug / David Romtvedt 74 -- Boopmobile / Rhonda Brittan 78 -- Thar She Blows 78 -- How to Impress A Zillion Germans in Ten Minutes or Less / Mike "Mik" Mikulan 79 -- Bug and I / Diane Ackerman 80 -- Randy & Sophie Cohen's Father-Daughter -- Old Beetle-New Beetle Comparison Chart 82 -- Where Can My Volkswagen Be? / Martha Larche Lusk 84 -- Keep on Buggin / Our Resident Mechanic Explains by Gary (of Gary's Driveway VW Repair) 86 -- Fuel Used 86 -- Mack Beetle / Neil Johnson 88 -- Puttering Around / Our Resident Mechanic Explains by Gary (of Gary's Driveway VW Repair) 89 -- Summer of Hot Bug Love / John H. Ostdick 90 -- I'd Recognize That Shape Anywhere / Aaron Ridinger 92 -- Volkswagen / William Stafford 93 -- Rear Window / Our Resident Mechanic Explains by Gary (of Gary's Driveway VW Repair) 93 -- When I was in East Africa / Daniel Pinkwater 94 -- High In The Mid-Seventies / Jim Howard 95 -- Punch Buggy / Christine Herman-Smith 98 -- Water Bug / Dennis L. Downey 99 -- Just Married / Howard Mohr 101 -- Heat of the Beet / Our Resident Mechanic Explains by Gary (of Gary's Driveway VW Repair) 102 -- My Bug's Bugs / Roy Blount, Jr. 103 -- A Test of VW Power / Keith Alan Flint 104 -- Head of the Class / Our Resident Mechanic Explains by Gary (of Gary's Driveway VW Repair) 105 -- Our Own Herbie, The Love Bug / Jerry Jess 106 -- Beetle Stuffing 108 -- Something Blue / Patricia Wynn Brown 109 -- Flight of the Beetle / Ron Good 111 -- Dreaming of Warmer Places / Eric Hanson 112 -- Black Beauty / W. W. Fitzpatrick 113 -- Groovy Kind of Town 114 -- Model / Gary Gildner 115 -- Wine, Women, Song--And Gasoline / Stewart McKissick 117 -- Ladybugging / Diane Gibson 118 -- Leaf Men / William Joyce 119 -- Hood Ornament / M. C. Buggin 120 -- Owning A Bug Sometimes Makes You Do Funny Things / Kevin DeGabriel 122 -- Bug Juice / Richard Hunt 123 -- Art Car Bugs / Harrod Blank 127 -- All I Ever Wanted / Douglas Trazzare 130 -- In The Hot Seat / Our Resident Mechanic Explains by Gary (of Gary's Driveway VW Repair) 131 -- No Backseat Drivers Here / Peter Neumeyer 132 -- Body And Soul / Cynthia Heimel 132 -- Special Delivery / Lois Grace 133 -- Make Yourself Uncomfortable / Catherine Lippert 135 -- Floatswagon 136 -- Dangerous Mobility / Russell Baker 136 -- Volkstote 138 -- Franz Lidz's Bugs In Sports / Franz Lidz 139 -- All Dressed Up And Nowhere to Park / Mark O'Donnell 142 -- Interesting Times / Stuart Leeds 143 -- Things That Fit in My Bad Bug / Janet Overmyer 144 -- A Curiosity of Beetles / Robb White 146 -- What Hit Me 149 -- Valerie and Her Volkswagens / Wallace Pinfold 150 -- Death Be Not Proud / Paul Hellman 151 -- Beat Goes on / David Amram 152 -- Sweet Dreams / Bill Sienkiewicz 154 -- From "A Snob's Guide to Status Cars" 1964 / Dan Greenburg 155.
Subject:
Automobile ownership > Anecdotes.
Automobiles in art > Anecdotes.
Volkswagen Beetle automobile > Anecdotes.
Volkswagen Beetle automobile > Literary collections.
Genre:
Anecdotes.
Literature.

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