1979 VW German Police Beetle – Jay Leno’s Garage

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1. 1975 typ 1 in Sweden 50hp!!

2. das is god

3. Oh, for a carbonator again. They were so much easier to adjust!

4. Tellafunken Radio LOL!!

5. Like most police forces, cars were chosen according to their use. Or to put it another way the German police forces other car was a Porsche 911

6. Where is the license plates?

7. COMMENT SECTION BREAKDOWN:

   37% "you pronounced Polizei wrong"

   29% "these guys don't know anything about the car"

   41% "the red light is a fog light"

   3% criticisms of my math skills

8. Moving the turn signals from the fenders to the bumper was not a change for the better.

9. The city of Würzburg isn't the place for stretch-limousines and hummers – a Käfer (i.e. VW-beetle) might just have been the most practical mean of motored-patrol inside the towns centre.

10. 1979? He's 4 years to new to be CA smog exempt, wonder how he got that registered.