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Article: A buzz about Lindbergh's bug; It can't fly, but the restored Beetle will help capture aviator's legacy.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 8, 2001
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Byline: Peg Meier; Staff Writer
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It's such an ordinary car, this bedraggled 1959 Volkswagen Beetle, with its dents and rust spots and an odometer that couldn't register all the miles.
That ordinariness is a great part of its charm, considering it belonged to world-famous aviator Charles Lindbergh. He spent boyhood summers in Minnesota and donated the Beetle to the Minnesota Historical Society.
"Most of our visitors are amazed to learn that Lindbergh drove this sort of car, considering the fact that he could afford to be driven around in a limousine anywhere he wanted," said Donald Westfall, manager of the Lindbergh ...