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PostPosted: Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:40 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
What a great photo! I'm surprised nobody has commented on it. It looks factory made, very clean lines. Any more information or other photos of this beetle?


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:33 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
sorry no more info on the beetle pick-up...


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:09 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
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What a superb photo. A wartime machine turned into a peacetime machine. Having said that, as this was one of the last Kubels made, it probably never saw much wartime action, if any.

Note the pivoting front tow hooks, a feature of very late production, plus the lack of windscreen wiper arm for the driver (no motor on passenger side), hence the dirty screen, plus a lack of spring clips on the scuttle to hold the dropped down windscreen, as obviously the screen was never intended to be dropped.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
a kubel that was driven in the uk until an accident wrote it off in 1950s Crying or Very sad

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
That would be rebuilt these days of course. TPU is an Essex number plate issue, from October 1951 onwards, which ties in with what you say.
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never seen a side-by-side Lambretta. wonder if it was custom made?
All the ones i can find are three-wheel configuration..
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Schwebebahn in Wuppertal. travels above the river Wupper for some 8 miles or so.

At the end it inverts and travels as a regular tram
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
Obviously German in design. Pure function, no pretense at any aesthetics. Brutal looking.
A French or Italian design would be curved and stylish.
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KTPhil wrote:
Obviously German in design. Pure function, no pretense at any aesthetics. Brutal looking.
A French or Italian design would be curved and stylish.


Like this Schwebebahn station?

https://www.rheinische-industriekultur.com/bilder/objekte/schwebebahn/schwebebahn13.png

What you see is a post-war building, quickly built with little money after the destruction in WWII.
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never seen a side-by-side Lambretta. wonder if it was custom made?
All the ones i can find are three-wheel configuration..


this is an april fool's joke creation by NSU, one of several, such as these motorised shoes. there was also an 'amphibious' NSU lambretta, inflatable motorcycle fairings, trombone exhaust pipes...ah, how we laughed!

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:59 am    Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... Reply with quote
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Obviously German in design. Pure function, no pretense at any aesthetics. Brutal looking.
A French or Italian design would be curved and stylish.


Like this Schwebebahn station?

https://www.rheinische-industriekultur.com/bilder/objekte/schwebebahn/schwebebahn13.png

What you see is a post-war building, quickly built with little money after the destruction in WWII.


Yes, much better! Wink

Not faulting, I understand the economic reasons, admire them, actually. Just noting a cultural difference.

Our VWs are an example... nothing there that isn't functional, save for the trim. Even the beautiful curves on the bodywork all have a structural function. A flat panel "oil cans" but a curve stays stiffer with less thickness.
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