Technically, the color of Ted Bundy’s infamous 1968 Volkswagen Beetle is ‘Savannah Beige (also at times known as ‘Savanna Beige’), and in Volkswagen’s official 1968 paint catalog, this color is designated as L-620. Because of the extreme amount of weathering and fading (and rust), the car often appears to be a variety of different colors: over the years, I have heard it described as dusty, tan, ‘brownish,’ beige, off-white, cream, and of course yellow. As of July 2026, the vehicle is on display at the Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Although his 1968 Savanna Beige VW is Bundy’s most notorious car, he was caught for the last time in Pensacola on February 15, 1978 driving a completely different, stolen Volkswagen Bug: the orange 1972 orange ‘Super Beetle’ belonged to Rick Garzaniti, a massage therapist from Tallahassee, Florida. He had left his keys inside the car while he ran inside of a residence (I believe he was picking his kid up from the babysitter) as it was parked in an alleyway and as we know, the rest is history. After Ted’s arrest, law enforcement held the Super Beetle for about eight weeks to process it for evidence, and when it was finally returned to its rightful owner, it had been covered in fingerprint dust and forensic markings; because of this he no longer felt comfortable driving it, Garzaniti sold it four months later to a local family for $1,310.

It is worth noting, Elizabeth Kendall owned a 1973 light blue Volkswagen Beetle (I couldn’t find any pictures of it) while she was dating Ted, I believe she referred to it was ‘robin’s egg blue’ in her memoir. According to Google, there could be two possible factory paint matches for the color: Neptune Blue (Color Code: L50K) or the slightly brighter Marina Blue (Color Code: L54D); it was never specified anywhere which color she drove. According to Kendall, he crashed it in 1974 and almost totaled it, but she got it fixed and ‘drove it another 50,000 miles.’