In my GTI I drove past two kids walking in my neighborhood, one kid points at my car and just nails his buddy. It was hilarious. First time I've ever seen it happen.
In my GTI I drove past two kids walking in my neighborhood, one kid points at my car and just nails his buddy. It was hilarious. First time I've ever seen it happen.
45 years ago it was called 'Bugslug'. My brother and I had big bruises on our arms from punching each other whenever we saw a Beetle.
Yeah, it was a while back.
Next fad to come back: ritual execution of virgins on the volcanic rim...
time for me to offer my services to virgins the world over then.
My girlfriend and I do the whole slug bug thing but only for beetles no other VWs. Helps keep us focused on the road for long trips and the like.
Punch buggy. Same thing, I presume.
I used to play punch-buggy-no-punch-back with my younger sisters when the New Beetle came out back in 1998. I was 11 back then. It pissed them off to no end, but that was because I was the only one playing! 
I feel so old after posting that... 
RexSeven wrote: I used to play punch-buggy-no-punch-back with my younger sisters when the New Beetle came out back in 1998. I was 11 back then. It pissed them off to no end, but that was because I was the only one playing!
You feel old, I was playing that with my sisters at the saturday night car shows back in the late 80s-early 90s. How am I suposed to feel?
Old? I sat in my first bug in 1961. Split rear window with manual B-column turn signals. I was in the 1st grade, and the beetle was the coolest thing I'd ever seen, even though I didn't understand it. Our next door neighbor was one of the first factory trained VW mechanics in GA, and he took them real serious. He forbade us to play the slugbug thing, feeling that it would hurt the car's reputation.
Didn't seem to hurt sales a bit, though..
How many folks on here know what I'm talking about when I say manual B-column turn signals?
neon4891 wrote: You feel old, I was playing that with my sisters at the saturday night car shows back in the late 80s-early 90s. How am I suposed to feel?
Ditto for me for that era--although it was "punch buggy" and "padiddle" (one headlight out) while driving around in our respective E36 M3boxes.
RexSeven wrote: I feel so old after posting that...
Don't. In 1998, I was teaching my 7yr old daughter the game just because the New Beetle had just come out.
Just in case some of y'all haven't seen them yet, here's the ads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ3wgX2Oruo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRkOE2doOZ4
The Routan one kinda makes me laugh. First, because the Routan's half Chrysler (the "soul of a Volkswagen"? ), and second because they brag that it costs less than $26K.
The reason the Corrado was such a sales disaster was because people saw that $21-23K on the window stickers and walked out of the dealership.
Haven't seen anybody playing Punch Buggy when the C passes by yet, but I've been DDing the black one, and it's debadged on the front. Switching to the green one later this week (it's got a/c, and we got our first heat wave of the season in the ATL), I'll let you know whether or not I can join Skruffy's club after that...
NYG95GA wrote: Old? I sat in my first bug in 1961. Split rear window with manual B-column turn signals. I was in the 1st grade, and the beetle was the coolest thing I'd ever seen, even though I didn't understand it. Our next door neighbor was one of the first factory trained VW mechanics in GA, and he took them *real* serious. He forbade us to play the slugbug thing, feeling that it would hurt the car's reputation. Didn't seem to hurt sales a bit, though..
I actually fell in love with manual transmissions as a kid in the early 70s while watching my mom's cousin row like mad trying to keep his Beetle up to speed on a country road (IIRC, it was a 66).
NYG95GA wrote: How many folks on here know what I'm talking about when I say manual B-column turn signals?
Semaphores? One of my fave David E. Davis columns (back when he ran Car and Driver, and hadn't been poisoned by so much wine and cheese yet) mentioned that he once got pulled over by the cops when he flicked them out and back in after seeing another semaphor equipped car on the road in a small town.
EDIT: Aside to the younger guys, that'd be like flashing your lights to another guy in a cool car, just to say "Hey, bro!" in the modern era..
In reply to gamby:
Forgot about padiddle, most cause I always got hit
What's somewhat amusing is that the most common 'padiddle' cars I see is the new Beetles...so..you get two punches out of those.
NYG95GA wrote: How many folks on here know what I'm talking about when I say manual B-column turn signals?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8492055@N08/3608253145/
NYG95GA wrote: How many folks on here know what I'm talking about when I say manual B-column turn signals?
Yep, I believe they called them "semaphores". A friend had an oval with them.
In case you wondered, those are hotlinked.
Per Schroeder wrote: What's somewhat amusing is that the most common 'padiddle' cars I see is the new Beetles...so..you get two punches out of those.
Wait you play padiddle with punches. That is not how me and my friends play it.
"Punch-buggy" applied only to old Beatles, not to any other VW.
Anyone else notice that in those commercial, only adults get punched? And when they pass the group of kids, they are bouncing inside the blow-up thing and you can't actually see any punching? It's only "implied".
Doesn't surprise me... just thought it was interesting.
Yeah... driving a bunch of junior high boys on school field trips, I got tired of that game.
The real game should only be old style Beetles. Maybe stretching it for new Beetles is okay. Expanding it to other VWs is just jackass. And how the heck are you supposed to play it that way anyway? Most people can't tell a Volkswagen from a Volvo.
So does no one else play padiddle where everyone yells padiddle and punches the roof and the last one to do that takes off an article of clothing.
NYG95GA wrote: How many folks on here know what I'm talking about when I say manual B-column turn signals?
probably as many as remember how to indicate your intentions to turn by using hand signals...
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