{"id":299487,"date":"2017-07-06T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=299487"},"modified":"2024-10-03T17:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:25:22","slug":"the-undying-love-of-a-proud-owner-to-his-1953-volkswagen-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-undying-love-of-a-proud-owner-to-his-1953-volkswagen-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: The Undying Love of a Proud Owner to His 1953 Volkswagen Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Db2DT-JTPXU\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Db2DT-JTPXU\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will break down some days. I don\u2019t want to worry about that,\u201d says Manuel Campa.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re looking at a 1953 Volkswagen Beetle, a mass-produced marvel that is now quite the rare car, and it\u2019s used by Campa as a daily driver. \u201cI want to pick up my wife with it, I want to drive in the weekends with it, and have fun and enjoy. It\u2019s a car to have fun with,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It might be silly for some people,&#8221; says Campa, \u201cbut it\u2019s a dream come true for me and I\u2019m super happy with the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A dream come true? Campa is a painter by trade, who honors classic cars, motorcycles, and bicycles on canvas. \u201cFor me, my passions are my cars, my toys, my brushes, my canvas, my studio,\u201d he says, \u201cand that\u2019s where I spend most of my days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that not many people see is that you have to work very hard in your studio to make this happen\u2026your painting is going to hang in someone\u2019s house,\u201d Campa says. After a long, difficult process, he says of his creations: \u201cFinally, sometimes it\u2019s worth having your signature.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt will break down some days. I don\u2019t want to worry about that,\u201d says Manuel Campa. You\u2019re looking at a 1953 Volkswagen Beetle, a mass-produced marvel that is now quite the rare car, and it\u2019s used by Campa as a daily driver. \u201cI want to pick up my wife with it, I want to drive in the weekends with it, and have fun and enjoy. It\u2019s a car to have fun with,\u201d he says. &#8220;It might be silly for some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":299492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12919,180],"tags":[8441,181,18934],"class_list":["post-299487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-volkswagen","tag-videos","tag-volkswagen","tag-volkswagen-media-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Undying Love of a Proud Owner to His 1953 Volkswagen Beetle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-undying-love-of-a-proud-owner-to-his-1953-volkswagen-beetle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Undying Love of a Proud Owner to His 1953 Volkswagen Beetle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cIt will break down some days. 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