IT might be silver but its condition is pure gold - this little beauty is 37 years old.
The only reason it has clocked up a total of 159 miles is that once a year Mick Hayselden takes it out of his showroom in Huddersfield Road Barnsley to road test it.
The 1200l Beetle was one of the last 300 manufactured at Wolfsberg to be imported to the UK but now it's the only one of it's kind in the world.
** The full story is in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated April 10. **