Monday, December 19, 2011

VW Beetle first car in Antarctica

One hundred years ago yesterday — December 14th, 1911 — Roald Admundsen and his team of Norwegian explorers became the first humans to reach the South Pole, pulled by sled dogs. But it wasn't until 1963 that the first production car landed on Antarctic shores, a mostly-stock VW Beetle known as "the Red Terror." This is its story.


http://jalopnik.com/5868236/this-was-the-first-car-in-antarctica

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