Volkswagons, Bicycles and Taxis...

    My first occupation in this life was that of a volkswagon mechanic.  Remember the very first 'idiot' book that came out?  Well it taught me everything I needed to know about repairing most volkswagons.   Imagine my surprise in Oaxaca when every other car was an old volkswagon, usually chopped and painted like the one below.  This one was made shorter, into a two seater and I presume it was not originally a convertible.  I know it's a bit weird but all the volkswagons made me nostalgic for the 70's.  So, I took about 30 shots of the most interesting ones.  I won't bore you with all of them but indulge me with just a little browse....

 

  I found this one.. an art car... kinda like one of my bugs from the 70's.  I had 20 of them during the 10yr period between 1972 and 1982.  Okay enough about the bugs.

The other interesting vehicles i saw were taxis and bicycles. And sometimes a taxi was a bicycle. These little vehicles are not allowed in the city of Oaxaca so you will only see em when you go to the outskirts called Xoxocotlan or Xoxo (pronounced hoho) for short. lastly a few shots of interesting bicycles...

Here in Eugene we are proud of our homemade bicycles but i have never seen one like this here.