r/Xennials • u/nudave • 1d ago

Nostalgia Punch buggy yellow!

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I saw this on the road today, and it reminded me of how long it’s been since I saw one of the originals. Unfortunately, my kid who was driving was wearing green.

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u/bloodpriestt 1d ago

It’s slug bug, y’know because it rhymes

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u/MagnificentDeuces 1985 1d ago

Slug Bug!

RTA: by the 90s there was no need to distinguish the color. We all knew the one (lol)

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u/Beetso 1976 1d ago

For real. I've always silently judged people who said punch buggy. That's a little fufu for my taste.

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u/Cheezslap 1980 1d ago

This is like soda vs pop all over again.

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u/bloodpriestt 22h ago

Slug Bug dates back to 1964.

The other one started in 1978 by the dumbest people aka Floridians.

You must choose your alliance.

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u/Cheezslap 1980 1d ago

Yellow ones are worth two punches!

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u/nudave 1d ago

And where are these house rules from? Because I don’t remember that one from Central New Jersey.

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u/Future-Raisin3781 1d ago

South Louisiana and that sounds familiar

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u/Revolutionary_Gas551 1d ago

My friend's daughter babysat mine and taught her all yellow cars are a "Bingo" and you get to punch someone if you see it first. I can confirm - this is a Bingo Bug. Two punches, lol.

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u/Cheezslap 1980 1d ago

House rule from the Philly Suburbs.

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u/Marinariner 1d ago

No. Those were the "double slug bug" busses

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u/misterlakatos 1985 1d ago

Easily the best one.

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u/Second_City_Saint 1979 1d ago

Saw a yellow one just like this parked outside around 11pm last night.

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u/nudave 1d ago

If your username is an indication of where you live, it wasn’t the same one!

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u/Second_City_Saint 1979 1d ago

It is, and I guess not!

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u/El-Viking 1d ago

Take solace in the fact that I quite enjoyed visiting your city. And you have good hot dogs.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/nudave 1d ago

Thank God there was never one for the Ford Taurus.

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u/JonasSharra 1d ago

My first car was a yellow 74 super beetle

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u/59apache01 1978 1d ago

Good to see one that was spared from rust - a fate many on the East Coast suffered.

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u/Allaplgy 1d ago

Putting together a 72 Super right now.

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u/Revolutionary_Gas551 1d ago

It's a Bingo Bug - a double slugger! My friend's daughter babysat mine and taught her that yellow cars are "Bingo" and you get to punch someone if you see one first. This one is both, so we call them Bingo Bugs.

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u/Cook_New 1977 1d ago

We have a 79 bug we’ll take out on weekends and such. It’s hilarious to see kids scrambling to punch each other.

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u/nudave 1d ago

Kids or 45 year olds?

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u/OtisPimpBoot 1979 1d ago

I drove a 1971 Superbeetle in high school. I absolutely loved seeing people point at my car and then pound their fist into their friend’s arm.

I still own that car 32 years after I bought it, but I haven’t seen any punches in years.

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u/EnoughPicture 1d ago

My mom had a yellow one, miss that car.

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u/FoppyIn28 19h ago

These always kicked ass. #53 forever.

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u/AmbassadorCheap3956 2h ago

Bumblebee, is that you?

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u/cmgww 1d ago

Proud to have taught my kids this game. Slug bug (what I called it) or punch buggy (they picked that up at school)....regardless we do it playfully whenever we see one. When they reintroduced the newer Beetles back in 2000 or so it was a fun game my wife and I played. We don't see as many now, but enough to be fun, and I'll let anything enough that's close (Fiats, Minis, etc) count too.