Car Lust Classic--Volkswagen Squareback

Originally posted by Chris Hafner on Aug. 29, 2007



There’s no particularly good reason to love Volkswagen Squarebacks. Their styling was dated even when they were new several decades ago, and they have more than a passing resemblance to the punch-line East German Trabant of the Iron Curtain era. Squarebacks were fundamentally Volkswagen Beetles under the skin, which means even when new, they were incredibly slow, horribly noisy, and absurdly dated.



So why do I want one so much?



My uncle, a slightly daft individual who used to ice-race perfectly good Volkswagen Rabbits–is probably to blame here. Whenever I visited him as a child to gape in awe at his model car collection, or peruse his car magazines, I would encounter in front of his house twin Volkswagen Squarebacks, both in some moderate state of disrepair. Somehow that led to this deep-seated passion.









Who can explain the nuances of the child’s mind? Or, to be more descriptive of my current mindset, a childish mind?



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