Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Beetle Bits

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:42:00 +0000

When I was growing up in the mid-to-late 70′s, I never heard of Slug Bug (until later but I was too old to do it by then).

My dad used the cars to teach me colors when I was 3-5, though, with the Buggy game and you basically do the same thing by calling out “Buggy (insert color)” but with no punching (I was an only child after all, haah).

I got so good that I could a sliver of any part of it peeking out from behind another car and identify it.

By: janel

janel — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:56:55 +0000

It’s Slug Bug here in Utah too. Never heard of Punch Buggy.

By: LP

LP — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:35:42 +0000

Here in Texas, it was “Slug Bug [Color]! No tag backs!”

By: EastCoaster

EastCoaster — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:32:42 +0000

I really didn’t know there was a geographic theory to punch buggy vs slug bug.

I use both. A Slug Bug is in reference to the older beatles. A Punch Buggy is the new version of the beatle (you know, the one that looks to feminine for men to drive).

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:32:35 +0000

In North Texas we also said slug bug. And sometimes the color, although from what I remember it was just that a certain color (yellow maybe?) got you 5 punches instead of just one. Or something like that.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:54:53 +0000

Growing up here in West Texas it was slug bug.

By: Lily

Lily — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:44:54 +0000

Here on the East Coast it’s “Punch Buggy no punchbacks!” I have never heard slug bug before. Did other people also have elaborate rules like triple safety, when you get out of the car you can punch for the same car, etc?

By: motorkitty

motorkitty — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:39:33 +0000

@Jennifer….. make sure you and your tipsy friends flip your OWN bug…. i had a 72 superbeetle for my first car. it broke down and i had to leave it on the side of the road till the next day…. found it upside down and trashed with beer cans all around it. good times?? nah, it was totaled.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:59:31 +0000

My best friend in high school drove a red Beetle – the floor eventually rotted out (as they do) and it became the Flinstones Car. Sooooo much fun was had in that car!

I owned a New Beetle (named Lefty) up until 2006 when I had to give him up to make way for a Jetta (which would fit a car seat, sigh). I loved that car more than I love most people and once my kid is no longer in a car seat, I’m getting another one.

By: Emmie

Emmie — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:35:12 +0000

God I miss my bug!!! had a ’72 back in high school (in the late ’90′s) best car for a new driver, if you weren’t good a parking it didn’t matter, you could be totally diagonal and still between the lines! At the time my man had a Porche 944 and I would pick up my little bro from driver’s ed one day in the bug and the next in the Porshe, LOL.

I have an obnioxously large collection of modle ones now sitting here on my desk; including mardi gras bead ones, a coffe mug shaped like one, and a lamp.

Ssquach you’re my hero, you have a Wolfsburg tattoo?!?!?!?!

now I’ve got a PT Cruiser, I refuse to own a car without attitude (couldn’t find a new beetle I could afford and the old ones are way cuter anyway)