At 03:21 PM 12/26/2009, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote...

>actually, it was offered to Henry Ford...  who responded "what they
>got
>there isn't worth a damn"   (those were his exact words)
>
>he later ate his words, im sure, as the millionth Beetle rolled off
>the
>assembly line in the late 60's, surpassing production of the Model
>T.....
>:)

...if he hadn't died in 1947, less than 2 years after VE day.