{"version":"1.0.0","episode":{"title":"🌻 VW Women: \"Muth\" The Super Beetle & the Air-Cooled Sisterhood with Marla Aufmuth 📸","url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/vw-women-muth-the-super-beetle-the-air-cooled-sisterhood-with-marla-aufmuth","audioUrl":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2316026/episodes/18780224-vw-women-muth-the-super-beetle-the-air-cooled-sisterhood-with-marla-aufmuth.mp3","description":"Click here to share your favorite car, car story or any automotive trivia!“Every car tells a story, and those stories reveal exactly who we are.” In this episode, Doug and Dave welcome professional corporate and lifestyle photographer Marla Aufmuth into the virtual garage. While Marla has documented landmark cultural events for brands like Nike and TED Talks, her heart belongs to the air-cooled Volkswagen community. 🏎️💨Marla shares the history of \"Muth\"—the 1976 sunflower yellow Super Beetle convertible her father bought in Germany and shipped home nearly 50 years ago. Named after the German word for \"strength\" or \"courage,\" the car became Marla’s classroom for life, where she mastered the clutch on the daunting hills of San Francisco. 🇩🇪✨Inside This Episode:📸 The VW Women Project: How Marla turned a pandemic hiatus into a mission to photograph and interview 40 women across 10 states to acknowledge their place in car culture.🌻 Sensory Nostalgia: Why the smell of horsehair, vinyl, and a hint of gasoline serves as a sensory time machine for vintage VW owners.🚐 Forbidden Fruit: Marla reveals her ultimate dream car: the European VW California—a hybrid \"three-room\" apartment on wheels that isn't available in the States.🇯🇵 The 25-Year Rule: Dave explains how the 25-year cutoff allowed him to import his own Japanese Kei van and how others can do the same.📐 Automotive Logistics: A hilarious debate on whether Marla's 6’3” husband can actually fit comfortably into a tiny Japanese Kei car.Whether you are a lifelong \"VW person\" or just love a story about the metal that shapes our lives, this episode is a love letter to heritage, community, and the courage to stay in the driver's seat. 🎙️🛠️Connect with Marla:Website: vwwomen.com 📸Instagram: @marlaaufmuth 🌻Binge the Library:If you enjoyed the trip down memory lane today, please follow us and tell a friend. With 71 episodes in the vault, we have a garage full of stories waiting for you! 🚗💨Listen to past episodes: buzzsprout.com/2316026/episodes 🎧Find all our social links: linktr.ee/carsloved 🔗Until next time, keep the windows down and the stories moving. 🌬️🏁 *** Your Favorite Automotive Podcast - Now Arriving Weekly!!! *** Listen on your favorite platform and visit https://carsloved.com for full episodes, our automotive blog, Guest Road Trip Playlist and our new CAR-ousel of Memories photo archive. 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