Volkswagen T 1
1969, about 0/6km northwest of Kingston, new york, USA, filled with smoke and music. On the traffic jam highway, strangers are chatting casually, and people and cars are moving in the same direction. The center of that music is Woodstock Music Festival, which is by far the most famous music festival on the planet. It is a temple in people's hearts at that time and an indestructible fortress of faith.
campsite
Under the background of the prosperity of American society after World War II, it was an era when the "Beat Generation" was confused, helpless and rebellious. At that time, young people advocated music, literature, poetry, painting, movies and other art forms, and used these as carriers to express their rejection of secular stereotypes such as monopoly capitalism, war expansion, social inequality and dogmatism. They are willing to wander around the world, rebel against suits and ties with rags, rebel against artificial cliches with new poetic style, and rebel against delicate love songs with guitar distortion. They came to Woodstock with unprecedented enthusiasm and sang the strongest voice of turning the times around with "love, peace and music".
Volkswagen T 1 van
We can easily find a figure on the road full of young people, cars and motorcycles and on the lawn in the center of the music festival. For these enthusiastic young people, it is a happy harbor and their home. It is Volkswagen T minibus, Woodstock of automobile minibus industry, and perhaps one of the most famous minibus models on the planet.
Minibus
T-minibus originated from Volkswagen's T platform in 1950s, and the most famous one-the protagonist of this paper-is T 1 of the first generation of T-minibus. In fact, its full name is Volkswagen T 1 Type2, and the latter Type2 is the internal model number, which may be named relative to the Beetle also from the T platform. The number of Type2 continued until T3, and 1992 was discontinued. After that, T4 and T5 were named as "transport planes".
T 1
T 1 is an unsuccessful model. It has been produced from 1950 to 1967. In the long product cycle of 17, there are countless extended models of T 1, including vans with two rows of seats in the back row, recreational vehicles with dining tables, vans without back seats, and even vans with only cockpit reserved. Mom, dad, young people, delivery drivers, surfers ... almost everyone has sufficient reasons to choose Volkswagen T 1. Perhaps it is for this reason that it came to the United States from the European continent with beetles. In this hot land of independence and freedom, T 1 burst into infinite vitality.
music
For the United States, I prefer to call the 1960s the "Rainbow Age" rather than the 1950s, which coincides with the vigorous development of two major cultural events in the United States: the sexual liberation movement and the hippie movement. During this period, literature, music, movies and art forms began to become open, direct and colorful. Informal, unpretentious and unconventional became everyone's life creed at that time. "Goodbye Dad, I 18 years old, I want to hang out with my friends" became the most anticipated speech of all children at that time. Friends who mix together to "engage in art" and "play with creativity" are actually talking nonsense-you can't create good works without a relaxed attitude and plenty of time-so you need a carrier. At this time, it is also the best time for Volkswagen T 1 to appear.
The Development of Volkswagen T 1
Woodstock Music Festival, accompanied by hippies and sexual liberation, is also the most chaotic music festival on the planet. When jimi hendrix played the first sound of his white Fender Stracaster guitar, the whole world of young people was immersed in a kaleidoscope. They opened the curtain in the window of T 1, slowly opened the door of T 1, and let the guitar twist and jump into the car to reverberate. Hallucinogens, marijuana, alcohol and sex make them feel that life is wonderful, and the flashing lights on the stage are blurred into a kaleidoscope. There is no goal before tonight and tomorrow, and they are looking for the seemingly pale meaning of life in the sinking.
beetle
Now it seems that from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, people were liberated from the prison of war, which was a process in which an extremely anti-war young man re-examined himself in the face of empty and nihilistic social values. Although this period of history is a revisionist period in American culture, it also makes generate, a young man, proud of his vitality and has accumulated countless unrepeatable literary and artistic works and cultural wealth for us.
deluxe automobile
If the Italian Renaissance laid the cornerstone of modern western civilization, the hippie movement and the sexual liberation movement also reshaped contemporary art forms and certain ideologies to some extent. And all this, except Volkswagen T 1, I can't think of any other car that can be a witness and part of this history as a representative model. Playing the guitar in the carriage, standing on the roof and reciting poems, will it become the swan song of human history?
Looking back at Europe full of smiles and family warmth, a Volkswagen T 1 car is covered with a plaid cloth. T 1 The top of the sun visor protruding from the car body is a raised roof, and the interior is a comfortable bedroom. The unique liftable front windshield brings the family together slowly, and makes us feel that no other car can be so intimate. Today, we are.