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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:19 am Post subject: |
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_________________ We are striving for perfection, to make our cars run forever, if possible.
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:20 am Post subject: |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:22 am Post subject: |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:24 am Post subject: |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:24 am Post subject: |
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koenigsberg4ever Samba Member
Joined: October 11, 2011 Posts: 11 Location: 60 kms from Hessisch
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Great pictures !
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I do agree with you on that. But something could mabye of happened to the car, i remember reading of them museum cars that fell off a wagon was it?
This was a prototype and one that looked different to a normal Beetle, as said the guy that was presenting it at the time explained it as being the first prototype so it is interesting. |
Wasn't there talk somewhere in this forum about a car that ended-up in Czechoslovakia ? (Tatra ?) |
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Undis Samba Member
Joined: October 24, 2006 Posts: 1396 Location: Riga, Latvia & Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 3:23 am Post subject: |
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koenigsberg4ever wrote: |
Wasn't there talk somewhere in this forum about a car that ended-up in Czechoslovakia ? (Tatra ?) |
I seem to recall there were some rumors of the convertible being spotted in Czechoslovakia as late as the fifties (?)
For all we know it could have been a case of mistaken identity.
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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allsidius Samba Member
Joined: February 02, 2010 Posts: 1475 Location: Norway
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shoestringseven Samba Member
Joined: December 23, 2014 Posts: 2 Location: United Kingdom
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Thanks for the earlier book recommendations. The current price asked for copies of Birth of the Beetle means its out of reach for most of us, but some of the other titles are still available for sensible money.
I've recently become interested in early VWs (although I've been a Porsche nut for years) through the cars displayed in the Grand Prix museum at Donington Circuit in Leicestershire:
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fossil Samba Member
Joined: November 22, 2011 Posts: 36 Location: Germany
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Are you perhaps able to read in German? The german version of Chris Barber´s book (Der Käfer: Ferdinand Porsche und die Entwicklung des Volkswagens) is in print and available for less than €35,- at the known sources. |
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shoestringseven Samba Member
Joined: December 23, 2014 Posts: 2 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:24 am Post subject: |
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fossil wrote: |
Are you perhaps able to read in German? The german version of Chris Barber´s book (Der Käfer: Ferdinand Porsche und die Entwicklung des Volkswagens) is in print and available for less than €35,- at the known sources. |
Thanks; I've ordered a copy from Amazon.co.uk for only £20, so I hope my schoolboy German (and Google translate) will be enough!
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