Beetle stories (in celebration of Father’s Day)

Our parents’ first brand-new car was a 1968 Volkswagen (VW) Beetle 1500. Our father was then the Assistant Corporate Secretary of Meralco Securities Corporation.

It was our only car for the longest time before we had any other. It brought our dad to work and to tennis tournaments, our parents to parties, my brothers and I to school, and our family to places near and far. When the first “Herbie” movie was shown about a talking VW Beetle, my brothers and I also called our Beetle Herbie and imagined Herbie bringing us to our own adventures.