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The
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By George S. Bojaciuk |
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 Roger and I had separate visions
for the New Beetle. Roger had painted up many different color variants
of the Beetle. John McBride had developed the model and made it exquisite.
I recall how he use to pop into my office and ask what I thought would
be cool details to add. To his credit he got many of the original detail
into the model. John was the 4th Musketeer, so to say. He was eventually
transferred out of our group. It was a shame as he was a real car guy
and quite an artistic talent. |
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Roger's color models all came in. As I recall he had 6 of each color made. From these a few were selected as special projects like the Now and Then Beetles. |
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| Meanwhile back in my office.... I contacted my accessory guy Ric Golding and my builder, Rick Hanmore sharing my idea for a beach bug. I wanted a car that would have belonged to a Brittany Spears type girl. The Water Bug concept was born. When I got the car from Rick and the accessories from Ric, I knew what I needed to do. What you see is what evolved. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Everyone, except marketing
loved the idea. There was this guy from the catalog group who wanted
to take the model for catalog photos. I always had to tell him that this
was a concept not a product. Marketing told me that the model would have
limited appeal and would not sell. No one would "get it". |
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After some time the three of us decided to auction the model on the D4C auction. It did quite well and is now a part of history. |
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Y2K
was coming and I had an idea for a Computer Bug. It was to be a Beetle
with scale computers going in for Y2K service. Each model would be
packaged with Y2K Bug Spray, which was nothing more than Dust-off. I
still have that computer in my parts box. The idea was "cute" but
no one really bit outside our design group. Instead the Millennium Beetle
was created.
At
the time I left FM, I entered the model in a major East Coast model contest.
It won the People's Choice award. This gave me some satisfaction knowing
that it would have done well.