but for other people when they were talking about things like having kids and who is going to go back to work and some of these issues that hadn t been talked about a whole lot, it was important to people. i was so looking forward i was so looking forward to doing this. to be a grown-up for just an hour. in the beginning, there was talk of this being the yuppie show. and you mentioned it tonight. you said if there were a category for the most annoying show, this might win as well. now what some people perceive as annoying has nothing to do with yuppie. i think yuppie is a word made up by demographers and advertisers to sell soap. it doesn t have anything to do with what the show is. 30 something was not a giant hit, but it was a niche hit. it attracted an enormously upscale group of advertisers. the network cared who was watching, not how many were watching. and that was more and more catching on in the 80s. the prosecution will ask you that you look to the law, and
iconic cars, who better to celebrate the beetle than long- time vw owner don dahler. car that rolled off the assembly line in puebla, mexico, it was the last of its kind. the beetle is an unlikely automotive classic spanning eight decades with sales totaling more than $23 million it was conceived by adolf hitler and designed by ferdinand porsche as the volkswagen or people s car. to reinvigorate nazi germany s economy and make the people mobile. the type 1, its official name, became famous for its durability, ease of maintenance and while there are no other way to put it, cuteness. this is a beauty. yeah, 1962 convertible. reporter: chris vallone of new york runs perhaps the last shop in the world dedicated slowly to restoring bugs. what is it about the bug that appealed to you. that happy look on its face. it has a face when you look at it. the little smile, what bumper there. reporter: in the 60s the beetle became a symbol for the counterculture.
a movement which i did not intend. this was pure, in my heart. all sorts of people have been writing various articles about the hippies, usually about the hippies as if they were animals, something to look at. thus, we ve gotten hundreds and literally thousands of people coming up to haight-ashbury to watch people. it makes it an unpleasant place to be in. news got out about the haight-ashbury. it became overrun. we re now entering what is known as the largest hippie colony in the world. the fountainhead of the hippie subculture. the nickname is hashburies, and marijuana, of course, with lsd, is being used. literally people made the trip to san francisco to be a part of something. by the time they got there, that
drive. it has three pedals, but the brake is on the right. what s it doing there? jamie: you did clear the trees today? and the sidewalk. jamie: as we scoot around, it s easy to see why harold fell in love with this classic. i love it. feel the hair blowing, the top down. there s a big tree. big tree. jamie: brake. brake. brake. okay. brake. oh, that s forward. wait. brake. oh, yeah, that thing on the right, throttle up. oh, my gosh. perfect. not a scratch. but a collision is in store for the lemay family as it tries to get its museum and to drive. you need a building. fund-raising, all the next steps. the family donates 600 cars to the project and $15 million too, but it s not enough. so they hire a fundraiser who tells
[laughter] that will do. see you tomorrow. a world record car collection. he just kept goi a world record car col lection collection. he just kept going. a maverick driven to leave the mark. he went to a wrecking yard auction bought the whole wrecking house. his family promises to carry out his grand plan. i think there s a feeling of dread, relief, excitement and enthusiasm. i love it. feel the hair blowing and tops down. can they fulfill the patriarch s dying wish. nobody else wanted to be the one who said we would split it up. nobody wants car oil on their