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14. "Herbie"

Fri Jan 6, 2012, 06:28 PM

Jan 2012

"The Love Bug", the most ubiquitous car of the 60s, the V.W. Beetle! In it's more sinister incarnation, the platform for the dune buggies of Charlie Mansons motor pool...

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