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PostPosted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:48 pm    Post subject: '58 Standard with German Dash Stickers Reply with quote

These stickers have me stumped. Is this a common thing to see on older split's?

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please don't tell me you really think thats proper German? "drizzleflippen"? Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, I don't think it's proper German. Just wondering if these are a common thing.

Das Glimmerblinken!!! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've seen them once or twice before, but I've never seen them for sale... just in other cars. People get funny looks on their faces when they read them Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Joke stickers.

They appear to be fairly recent as they are much nicer than the patina of the bus.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A friend of mine has a European 60 bug that has the SAME decals!
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is Derricks dash...
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Sorry for the blur Embarassed

Same exact decals though!
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've heard of more than a few buses/bugs with these stickers.

If they are clues to being a euro model vehicle, what makes a "Euro" model unique? I don't know enough about euro specifications, can anybody help out?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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they are not clues to a euro model, they are a gag... anyone could put them on...or not.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jung Restoration wrote:
I've heard of more than a few buses/bugs with these stickers.

If they are clues to being a euro model vehicle, what makes a "Euro" model unique? I don't know enough about euro specifications, can anybody help out?


Those were stickers you got at JC Whitney back in the 60's.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, those were a JC Whitney item back in the early/middle sixties and were rather popular. In those days, an import was rather an exotic thing for most people and this was a way of having fun with it.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Yes, those were a JC Whitney item back in the early/middle sixties


They were named Warshawski's back then, no?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love "das schmokegedunka"
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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max-five wrote:
Yes, those were a JC Whitney item back in the early/middle sixties


They were named Warshawski's back then, no?


At one point in the 70's I was getting the exact same catalogs from both JC Whitney and from Warshawsky's so I knew they were one and the same but I never knew which one was the parent company. They never did learn how to pack parts, scrap boxes and a couple sheets of newspaper just didn't make it.
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J.C. Whitney is the largest direct marketer of auto parts and accessories. The company began life in 1915 as The Warshawsky Company, a scrap metal yard on the South Side of Chicago. The company's founder was a Lithuanian immigrant named Israel Warshawsky. Throughout World War I, Israel bought failed auto manufacturers and added new parts to his inventory. The Warshawky Company continued to grow, even during the Great Depression.

In 1934, Israel's son Roy joined his father at the company after graduating from the University of Chicago. Roy proposed expanding out from the Chicago-area with a nationwide catalog and placed an ad in Popular Mechanics for sixty dollars. The ad offered readers a "giant auto parts catalog" if they sent in twenty-five cents and response to the ad was huge.

Roy took charge after his father's death in 1943. He continued to grow the business through World War II, always developing new strategies in response to changing customer needs.

Roy retired in 1991.

In 2002, The Riverside Company acquired JC Whitney.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dstefun wrote:
derv wrote:
max-five wrote:
Yes, those were a JC Whitney item back in the early/middle sixties


They were named Warshawski's back then, no?


At one point in the 70's I was getting the exact same catalogs from both JC Whitney and from Warshawsky's so I knew they were one and the same but I never knew which one was the parent company. They never did learn how to pack parts, scrap boxes and a couple sheets of newspaper just didn't make it.
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J.C. Whitney is the largest direct marketer of auto parts and accessories. The company began life in 1915 as The Warshawsky Company, a scrap metal yard on the South Side of Chicago. The company's founder was a Lithuanian immigrant named Israel Warshawsky. Throughout World War I, Israel bought failed auto manufacturers and added new parts to his inventory. The Warshawky Company continued to grow, even during the Great Depression.

In 1934, Israel's son Roy joined his father at the company after graduating from the University of Chicago. Roy proposed expanding out from the Chicago-area with a nationwide catalog and placed an ad in Popular Mechanics for sixty dollars. The ad offered readers a "giant auto parts catalog" if they sent in twenty-five cents and response to the ad was huge.

Roy took charge after his father's death in 1943. He continued to grow the business through World War II, always developing new strategies in response to changing customer needs.

Roy retired in 1991.

In 2002, The Riverside Company acquired JC Whitney.


That is classic info right there. I remember going to Warshawsky's back in the late 80's to buy my chrome engine tin, gasket kits, and other worthless junk, but I do remember how cool that old building was. You would walk in and see about 100 catalogue stands, pick out what you want and fill out a form (still have one filled out) and hand it to a guy behind the counter. Wait for a few minutes, sometimes longer, and out this huge ramp on your left slid down your parts from the warehouse.

Brings back memories, even if they sold mostly junk. The warehouse used to be on 22nd street I believe just west of Chinatown.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got some labels on my square that say the same thing but they don't look like those stickers. pictures are in my album below. cool labels!

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like a meth-head got ahold of a hand labeler!
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Looks like a meth-head got ahold of a hand labeler and a square!


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not to encourage anyone but I LOL'd at "das Glimmerblinken".
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i laughed out loud when i first got in the car. i'm glad i ran into this post cause now i know where the idea came from Smile Cool
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