Air-Cooled VW Hats

The Type 1 Beetle's production ended in 2003 at Puebla, Mexico, after about 21.5 million cars and a run that goes back to 1938. Mexican production ran from 1967 to 2003, longer than in Germany. Early Beetles made roughly 36 to 40 horsepower, and the heat came from exhaust heat exchangers that were famously weak. Since the early 2000s, original-paint cars with rust and patina have become more popular than restored ones, and owners gather at events like the Airhead Treffen in Monterey. These air-cooled VW hats speak that language. AIR COOLED and AIRHEAD are the badges, with AIR COOLED spelled the way owners search it. The sentence designs carry the jokes owners already tell: no radiator, a heater that is a sweater, a Bus with two speeds, and a Beetle whose 36 horsepower are all tired. One forum owner put the appeal simply: you do not need much horsepower to have fun. PUNCH BUGGY NO PUNCH BACKS borrows the car game where you punch a friend on sighting a Beetle. The 36 horsepower figure belongs to the early Beetle only, so read it as the joke it is. AIR COOLED BECAUSE WATER IS FOR DRINKING and MY VW BUS HAS TWO SPEEDS DOWNHILL AND PRAYING each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, for the person who loves the slowest car on the road.