Vw Type 3 Suspension Diagram
Two festival goers that found Woodstock too much lay passed out on the bonnet and roof of their Volkswagen Beetle. Credit: Three Lions/Getty Images These days, we think of the Volkswagen Beetle as an emblem of 1967's Summer of Love. The well-known counterculture social phenomenon put San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood on the map — and it helped the Beetle solidify its place as a hippie symbol. But there's more to the "love bug" than its late '60s success story. In fact, the VW Beetle benefited greatly from one of the most successful rebranding efforts in modern history. The Origins of Volkswagen: World War II While the VW Beetle is now synonymous with free love and the 1960s, the vehicle's darker origins began a good three decades prior. In 1933, white supremacist and German dictator Adolf Hitler announced what he called a "people's motorization," and, the
