There is an interesting History of the VW Beetle at "The History of the Classiest Beetle", but a far more likely a history is provided here

CNN History of the Beetle in Pictures

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Here's an interesting Trek: Africa in A 1974 Beetle Goodness! I could barely go around the block in mine!

Type I

Some of the pages may be out of order due to my poor naming conventions...this is however, the entirety of the manual as I have it... Click on a thumbnail to get the larger page. As you might tell, the manual itself is in pretty rough shape. What hadn't killed it up until now, was probably done in by my scanning it - but for any VW enthusiast out there, it was in pretty horrible shape when I bought the car (I paid $50 for two - you tell me what kind of shape the autos were in) and I owned them both for about 8 months. This thing had been sitting in my dad's storage for about 15 years. As I said, it was in rough shape.
 

		SOLD to Andrea Davidson for her daughter's 1974 VW. Extremely cool.