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Blue Baron
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 1:03 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Blue Baron
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finster
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| Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 2:28 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Martin Southwell
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Location: Bath, England
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| Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 1:01 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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This picture is taken in my old homevillage Urjala before I was born. |
I'm intrigued. What is there in that photo, mainly of tress and snow, to suggest that it's your old home village? Is the name of A Laurila the clue? |
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virtanen
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Martin Southwell
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Location: Bath, England
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 3:10 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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RUNKLE
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 7:56 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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RUNKLE
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RUNKLE
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 10:27 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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finster
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 4:44 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| LeeE wrote: |
Meadowbrook Show mid 80's listed as one found in the WWII factory |
is more known about this car?
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RUNKLE
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 7:58 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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RUNKLE
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| LeeE wrote: |
Meadowbrook Show mid 80's listed as one found in the WWII factory |
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That's the same car we just finished talking about pictured at the top of the previous page. It was the Oldest Volkswagen in America in 1960.
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 12:55 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2024 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Martin Southwell
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 2:46 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| It's no wonder that the rear bumper support bracketss on the bodywork of earlier Beetles are found to be fractured. How many pictures here on Samba show people resting, leaning & standing on the bumpers? The 58 Standard I have had a number of fractures when I got it, and subsequently learned from the son of the 1st owner, that they used to take the car when skiing, and when stuck, so as to get extra traction, would have up to 4 people jumping up and down on the rear bumper! |
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wagen19
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 3:45 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| Martin Southwell wrote: |
| It's no wonder that the rear bumper support bracketss on the bodywork of earlier Beetles are found to be fractured. How many pictures here on Samba show people resting, leaning & standing on the bumpers? The 58 Standard I have had a number of fractures when I got it, and subsequently learned from the son of the 1st owner, that they used to take the car when skiing, and when stuck, so as to get extra traction, would have up to 4 people jumping up and down on the rear bumper! |
Form follows function. Rallying for ex. Mille Miglia 1954 by Paul Ernst Straehle, find the pic. |
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finster
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| Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 4:42 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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not to mention the hoisting onto ships using the bumper mounts...(not in this instance though)
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