Bug Tales: The 99 Most Hilarious, Outrageous and Touching Tributes Ever Compiled about the Car That Became an Icon

by Paul Klebahn and Gabriella Jacobs

Book Overview

Bug Tales is a collection of the 99 most hilarious, outrageous and touching tributed ever compiled about the car that became an icon. Whether you owned a VW (Bug , Bus or Karmann Ghia), knew someone... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966947401
• ISBN13: 9780966947403
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Oval Window Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Bug Tales Review

I learned 3 things after reading "Bug tales"; most people "name" their beloved Vw, everybody has a Vw story of some sort to tell and always take a throttle cable with you where ever you go! This has got to be one of the most interesting collections of Vw stories ever compiled. You never know what is going to happen next. I laughed, I cried and was always surprised at the things that can happen in, around and on top of a Beetle! What makes this book so nice is the author is a Vw fanatic like the rest of us and contributes a couple of pretty wild stories of his own. Like the time the throttle cable broke on his friends bug. Paul ended up sitting on the back bumper working the throttle while his buddy yelled "shift!" when he changed gears. Believe it or not they made it to the repair shop that way! You'll love this book even if you don't own a Vw! "Four air cooled cylinders up" to the authors Paul Klebahn and Gabriella Jacob! END

Charming and funny!

"Bug Tales" is a verry nice little book.I found the stories about families and kids and gonig on trips to be good reading, although I thought the parts about the pony and the lion and other stusff was funny, too. (You can tell from the cover that it's going to be good.) I definitely recommend it to anybody for a quick, pleasant summer read even if you never had a Volkswagon!

Bugtales is a hittt!

Bugtales proves that the truth can indeed be stranger than fiction. You don't have to have had a bug as a member of your family to enjoy this book. Great reading!

"Bugtales" brings back the 60's in all of us over 50!

I loved reading through Bugtales. Every story brought out man's personal relationship with their beloved VW. For many of us 60's kids this was the only car we could afford. I found it facinating how the bug has become a treasured item. The stories all evoke images of VW owners from all walks of life and all parts of the country. The VW stories stand the test of time. Any VW owner can relate to the sometimes touching and many times hilarious rembrances in this book. Would be a great present to anyone who either owned a bug, knew someone who did or just wished they had been bitten by BUG FEVER.

Everybody I know is emotionally attached to a VW somewhere

I received my copy of this book in the mail the other day. One of my VW stories was accepted in the book. As I shared the book with family, friends and coworkers more stories came flooding in. I never knew so many of the people I know had somewhere somehow or someplace made a bug or VW bus a part of their young adulthood. "Bug Tales" is a great book because it keeps on going even after it is read. Hey this little book is much like the beetle itself.