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Deckard
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| It amazes me now how, before the internet, how difficult it was to find reliable info about The Thing. Back in '92 it took me two years just to find the parts I was missing. Today, probably less than a week. |
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BUGTHUG
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I have a question about the tail lights on the Acapulco, these look like from a bus, not the big elephant feet ones, are these correct?
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Semper_Dad
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I have a question about the tail lights on the Acapulco, these look like from a bus, not the big elephant feet ones, are these correct? |
181s before 1973 used the old bus tail lights. They continued to use them on European 181s after that. Not sure if the European 181s ever did have elephant feet.
Interesting picture as it looks to have some sort of hooks by the doors. Some provision to run chains across the door openings maybe?
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BUGTHUG
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| Semper_Dad wrote: | | BUGTHUG wrote: |
I have a question about the tail lights on the Acapulco, these look like from a bus, not the big elephant feet ones, are these correct? |
181s before 1973 used the old bus tail lights. They continued to use them on European 181s after that. Not sure if the European 181s ever did have elephant feet.
Interesting picture as it looks to have some sort of hooks by the doors. Some provision to run chains across the door openings maybe? |
But aren't the Acapulco's one year only? 1974's
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1963 15 window bus
1964 split window bus
1966 VW bug
1969 Dune Buggy
1971 Westfallia camper bus
1972 Kelmark, VW drive line
1948 Chevrolet Hearse |
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Solomon Grundy
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Solomon Grundy
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Come on Volks, someone has to have something to contribute...?!
Break out you stash and let's get this archive rolling...
BUMP..... 
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VW 181 Archive: https://sites.google.com/site/jeffgilleland/vw_archive
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and I am not talking about the VW K70, a watercooled front engine car designed by NSU from the early 1970s… 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_K70 |
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Ron Domeck
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| Tell me what you need. I have all of these plus the North East news letters, all one 181 Magizines from Mike Crisp. and most all lit from 5 countries. |
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citroen
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| and i have most of brother rons info copied on my computer and can email pictures or copy it to samba or send you a disk let the domeck brothers know what you need Thanks Ron and Dennis Domeck |
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Solomon Grundy
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| Ron Domeck wrote: | | Tell me what you need. I have all of these plus the North East news letters, all one 181 Magizines from Mike Crisp. and most all lit from 5 countries. |
That would be sweet. 
Everything in my collection that I found so far is posted here:
https://sites.google.com/site/jeffgilleland/vw_archive
How can I get at all that data...?
As I see it we have 2 options; USPS or Cloud.
If you put it all in a box & USPS it I will start scanning it at work during lunch on our semi out type scanner and eventually get it all up for the world to enjoy.
OR you could scan it and push it up to the cloud and I will long term archive it on my server and link it all on the archive page.
I will of course treat all material with the ultimate respect and return all of it to you and give you credit on the page for contributing to the community.
If we have enough or folks like it we can burn to CD / DVD for those that have no or minimal internet access for coast.
Anything you can contribute to the 181 archive would be greatly appreciated by all.
What works best for you Ron?
BTW:
Unfortunately I had to carefully slice the spine on all my issues to do this...! 
Some pages have age spots so I have been slowly photoshopping them as I have time to make them more easily to consumable.
I am strictly doing this for the community to free the data and consider this a long term project.
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- Dr. Seuss
VW 181 Archive: https://sites.google.com/site/jeffgilleland/vw_archive
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and I am not talking about the VW K70, a watercooled front engine car designed by NSU from the early 1970s…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_K70 |
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citroen
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| they are really from brother Ron Domeck one domeck brothers I just put them on the computer dennis the other domeck brother |
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Solomon Grundy
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| Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| citroen wrote: | | they are really from brother Ron Domeck one domeck brothers I just put them on the computer dennis the other domeck brother |
Okay Thanks
I liked the Christmas picture too, but did not put that in the archive.
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- Dr. Seuss
VW 181 Archive: https://sites.google.com/site/jeffgilleland/vw_archive
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and I am not talking about the VW K70, a watercooled front engine car designed by NSU from the early 1970s…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_K70 |
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