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Rock & Roll Legend John Fogerty Shows Off His Classic 1968 VW Bus on Jay Leno’s Garage

Rock & roll star John Fogerty met up with Jay Leno for a segment on the show, and he has a peculiar, but on-brand vehicle: a 1968 Volkswagen Type 2, which is as hippie as it gets. Having founded the ...
NBC Sports

The ’68 VW Bus Rolls To Manhattan

We’re in the process of loading up the ’68 VW bus for a trip to New York City. (We’re comfortable with the notion of declaring that we won’t be home, given that the house is equipped with an alarm ...
The New Yorker

The VW Bus Took the Sixties on the Road. Now It’s Getting a Twenty-first-Century Makeover

In 1976, at the tail end of the Ford Administration, hippies no longer hip, Sue Vargo and Molly Mead decided that they wanted to drive to the Florida Keys in a Volkswagen bus. They were best friends, ...
Silicon Valley

The Volkswagen bus is 75 years old, here’s a look at its history

75 years ago this month the VW bus began production. On March 8, 1950, Volkswagen, maker of the Beetle automobile, began producing its second vehicle, the microbus, known officially as the Volkswagen ...