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Originally Posted by stevej37 View Post
My first Beetle was a 69 and I had to drive it through a couple Michigan winters. The windshield defroster was useless...so I bought a 10" JC Whitney defroster bar that plugged into the lighter.

It would allow maybe a one inch strip to see out. Dangerous, but it worked.
Can't imagine doing something like that every day now.
I probably had 10 Beetles through the years…none new enough to have a cigarette lighter…most didn’t even have a gas gauge. Spent most winters wiping or scraping the inside of the windshield.
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