Mr. Moir’s father, John A. Moir Sr., bought this Volkswagen Beetle new in 1956 and used it to drive to the train station on rainy days; it was also loaned to family guests who needed a car while in town. As Mr. Moir describes, “Dad bought the car in VW Grey and had trouble distinguishing it from all the other grey VWs until he got a foxtail to hang from the rearview mirror. No problem.” It was one of the final Beetles built with the interim single-piece “small window” in the rear, rather than the early two-piece window or the larger later one-piece pane.

The Volkswagen was Moir Sr.’s last new car, and after he was done with it, it was given to Mr. Moir’s brother, who gave it to his son. Somewhere along the line, it had some minor body damage, and the family decided that John Moir Jr. should take care of it. Thus, it has remained the ‘V’ in the A to Z Collection ever since and has been stored in the family barn. As presented, still with its “barn dirt” intact, it has some damage from storage and dust, but it is essentially complete and “all there,” and it would be a fascinating restoration project of a rare early U.S.-delivery Beetle. It is offered today from the only family that it has ever known.