Fillmore
Fillmore, Radiator Springs' resident hippie is a 1960 VW Bus who owns an organic fuel shop (Fillmore's Organic Fuel) which features several flavors, and believes gasoline companies are lying to the public. His oil, fuel and brake shoes are all organic material!
Any Baby Boomer with a still-intact memory recalls the anthem of the 60s, a VW bus, most likely painted in psychedelic colors and outfitted with a mattress in the back. But the symbol of Hippy Life was first introduced by Volkswagen in Germany in 1950 as a cargo van or "transporter" that the company blandly called Type 2. Type 1, of course, was the then-ubiquitous VW "beetle," the staple of the company and a hot seller since its 1930s introduction.
First sold in the U.S. in 1949, production of the beetle, or "bug," jumped to over 16 million by 1973. By then, the bus had become a well-known car among American youth, who often would paint a peace symbol across its front.
He brews his own organic fuel in his painted and bead covered geodesic dome and winds up his neighbour Sarge.
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