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Charles Armstrong Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:25 am

Check out picture at (file to big to upload here)

http://ohiodunebuggy.tripod.com/

Anything you can tell me about these would be a great help!

also 57 oval for sale! :D

Thanks,
Charles

supahaole Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:05 am

no nothing about them!


however SS on a set of mainafolds. mean shaur and shon. i guess they where a aftermarket producer of vw iteams. mostly perfromance i think. i cant think that they made a ugly looking hubcap, but maybe they did!

hopsthis helps a little

jimmy hats Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:56 pm

not that i know anything, but they look really old, possibly war era... and as we all know vws were manufatured in germany during that time... hitlers personal bodyguards were called the Schutzstaffel, or SS; and their insignia looks a lot like the ss in the center of those hubcaps.

so maybe they were off a special run of vw for the SS or something... just an interesting theory though :roll:


... heres a link directly to the hubcaps, to ease the process for other people...

sandman712 Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:05 pm

It does look like the SS insignia.

mikevw57 Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:31 pm

Those are cool, care to sell them?

humfrydog Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:53 pm

I got first dibs. :twisted:

j.pickens Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:11 pm

Looks like a jokester's modification of the VW emblem to both avoid legal hassles from VWOA, and to tweak VW at the same time....

Hebster52 Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:03 pm

I'd say they are aftermarket copies with a modified VW logo to not get in problems with VW Copyrights.


I've seen similar hubcaps too with an X logo on too (also a modified VW logo)

The wartime SS logo looks different...

mikevw57 Thu Apr 29, 2004 7:10 pm

But are they for sale? PM me.



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