3-18-08 Photo of the Day

I used to own a VW Bug and seeing the carcasses of these as part of the hillside brought back many memories of the days when I was having to push mine to get it started on a hot day. Great days to remember, but at the time, this hillside would have been a good place to dump the vapor-locked beast. Staff photographer Raul Roa shot the photos. The caption reads: Haddick's Tow employee Jesse Placencia keeps an eye on old Volkswagen beetles being pulled out from a canyon in Turnbull Canyon Road in Whittier. About nine cars were found in this area after an August 2007 fire burned all the brush. It was estimated that the cars have been down there for some ten years.