Jewel of our readers: The VW Numa Quevedo

Volkswagen, in German, means “people’s car” and that was Adolf Hitler’s motivation when, in 1933, called on the best automotive engineers in Germany a strong car, low cost, durable and easy to repair that could travel more than 100kmh by fast motorways (autobahns) in Germany. Hitler wanted the car was a symbol of Nazism, but he wanted the story when put on the market became a symbol of democracy and plurality par excellence. Since then the beetle has moved both men and women, whites and blacks (and other colors), large or small, rich and poor, old and young, families or individuals for all the world’s roads. Its production started in 1993 in craft and began to spread in spectacular fashion after WWII. In 1972 the Beetle surpassed

15000000′s record of tax units produced in 1927 by the Ford Model T and continued to make a hysterical pace to industrial end his life in Mexico in 2003, having produced nearly 25 million units. The Beetle is still popular car par excellence is still the main tool of Mexican taxi drivers, who call him “Vocho.” In Venezuela, VW began to assemble in Venezuela from 1957 through the initiative of Guido Steinvorth associated with Corporacion Venezolana del Motor. Your local assembly was suspended in 1981 for reasons that had nothing to do with the product and although the plant in Palma Sola, Portuguesa, was dismantled, the auto opening a decade later allowed the beetle back to the local market as imported model, remaining until the beginning of this century.

The unity of this gallery is a 1971 VW Beetle Sedan, owned by a passionate young Venezuelan brand, Numa Ricardo Quevedo, whose enthusiasm and love that has been placed on this unit have become extremely popular in the various meetings of classic cars either through AVAAC or within several clubs dedicated to Volkswagen operating in the country. Their presence is held and has been affectionately dubbed VW “chicken.”

Numa bought the car to its first owner, a lady in 2008 and despite the time (and the quality of the car) was in very original condition. “I paid sixteen thousand bolivar” he says before adding, “We had to make the floors and fix many small details, as well as make the painting” All these works spread over 2008 and 2009, when he made the upholstery Autotapicería Europe, The Chaguaramos where reconstructions are true specialists in classic cars and recreational opportunities for tuning.

 

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