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Fifty Three: Chasing Adventure In A Sixty-Year-Old Volkswagen Baja Bug
Ralph Guglielm bought this 1965 Volkswagen Beetle out of the woods above Boulder Creek for $1,500 after it had been abandoned between a breakup. The shift linkage was broken, the coil was dead, and the drive home to Santa Cruz happened entirely in second gear. Now the same car lives as a Baja-converted Herbie tribute that has somehow found its way onto frozen lakes in Montana, rally stages in Utah, and into the middl…