1. Bodo Lafferentz was:
a. a Nazi economist. b. founder of the Baja Rometsch Club. c. inventor of the Rossi (formerly "Bodo") headlight. d. famous for being surgically lowered to match his car.

2. Who was Ben Pon?
a. early VW importer b. originator of the Cal (formerly "Ben") Look c. VW fetishist held hostage by Nicaraguan guerrillas d. inventor of chrome-plated tires

Part II: Language Skills

Use at least four of them in a sentence that also contains the German word Luftkuhlung.

4. Discuss the last time you saw a VW with a lacquered floorpan, billet aluminum trailing arms, and chrome-plated spring plates actually moving down a public highway. Describe the trailer it was riding on.

Part III: Mechanical Ability

6. Without using jumper cables or ether, start a typical 6-volt car on a cold, rainy morning. You must be alone, at the bottom of a hill.

7. Using only the pliers and screwdriver from a Beetle owner's toolkit, enter a junkyard and completely strip all hard-to-find parts from a '59 Microbus Deluxe in five minutes. Store them in your garage for twelve years, and sneer at anyone who offers to buy them.

Part IV: Philosophy

9. Take a '51 Split with 24,000 miles on the odometer. Shave the door handles, chrome, and bumpers. Fill in the semaphores and french the taillights. Cut the dash for "trick" gauges and louver the decklid. Explain yourself.

10. Using Freudian terms, discuss the reasons for the decline and subsequent re-emergence of the Mulholland Look, paying special attention to the symbolism of the "whale tail."