Huge kudos to Jay Salser for his work on this article. It was crafted by Ken Yeo in his own words. Our growth has been amazing, and the fact that these great cars keep surfacing. Slowly, we’re connecting ’67 owners globally.
-Eric

Ken, tell the Readers of 1967Beetle.com a bit about yourself and where you are located.

I’m 40 this year, from Singapore. I’ve owned 4 bugs over the last 20 years, and my current 1967 for the last 15. I’ve had a ’71 1302, ’67 1300, another ’67 1300 and a ’66 1300.

How did you become interested in Volkswagens.

It was my 4 years at the University of Miami, Florida where I first was exposed to beautiful cars and fell for vintages almost immediately. Upon graduation and return to Singapore in 1995, I set out looking for a classic and found the VW bug most affordable, since I was conscripted into the Army and wasn’t paid well. Interest became passion, then obsession, and I’ve always owned at least one ever since.

Your car differs in some respects from those which were directly imported from Germany into the USA. Tell us about some of those differences.

Our ’67s are available only with 1300cc ‘F’ engines (much like the ’66), and retain the sloping headlights. As an ex-British colony, we are right hand drive (RHD). Our bumpers come with over-riders. Rear turn signal lamps are in orange instead of red, and reverse lights are excluded. A little mix-and-match of the US and European models, I would say.

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Throughout nearly 43 years of marriage, cars have come and gone in our lives more often than I can count … ’55 Chevys, ’66 Mustangs (Shelbys, hypros & the occasional plain Jane) and the odd ’32 Ford. However, our 1st car was a new ’71 Shantung Yellow Super Beetle purchased just weeks before our wedding and kept secret from that group of friends who felt the need to advertise to the world that we were “Just Married”.

In 1991, we revisited the land of VW with the purchase of a ’68 Yukon Yellow convertible … just perfect as a perky little second car to haul around our growing family. Like the ’71 sedan, “Wally” (so named because his previous two owners had shared the same first name) moved on to a new home a few years later. This past summer, we decided that a ’67 convertible (the year Gary graduated from high school) was just the vehicle needed for fair-weather trips to the local DQ for ice cream with the grandkids … now numbering five.

After months of searching, we stumbled upon what looked to be a likely candidate on eBay…numbers-matching, recently refreshed and at a fair price – good bones with just enough TLC required for the grandkids to enjoy helping out and, most importantly, it was Yukon Yellow! After several conversations with the seller and careful estimates on what we would have to put into the vehicle, we placed the successful bid. The car was shipped to Washington State from New York Both of our daughters said, “Oh, a Wally, too,” when they first saw it. The name stuck!

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