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EeVeeWee
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About airports, I was at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands and there where these old pics. Fortunately I had time enough to spot all the VW busses. 
OK there is also an Early Bay, but I guess you don't mind. 
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Alan Brase
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 2:52 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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I only wish that back in my first years of flying that TWA had Split-Bus service vehicles lying about on the ramp.
Bill Bowman
p.s. That was shot on the ramp at LAX. Sure wish someone here owned that Pan Am Bus today... |
So, if TWA had them back inthe day, it would have warned you off VW splitties? You'd be Chevy Van Bill instead?
Merry Christmas, neighbor.
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rennie
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2016 8:59 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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High hinge panel... and a phone booth! Some of you may be wondering what the latter is. A phone what? 
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:32 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:33 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 12:06 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Fun game of where's waldo.
| EeVeeWee wrote: |
About airports, I was at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands and there where these old pics. Fortunately I had time enough to spot all the VW busses.
OK there is also an Early Bay, but I guess you don't mind.
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:26 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Fish
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Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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I wonder where this is?
Thank you Blue Baron for all the pictures you post in this thread and the others. I've learned so much.
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volksaddict
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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| Why is skinny guy pushing when there is nobody driving? |
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mandraks
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:08 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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| Why is skinny guy pushing when there is nobody driving? |
nobody needs to be in there to put the bus in gear and let it idle on loose ground. Used to do this in the dirt. 2nd gear, and let it idle, get out and push it, hop back in when it starts getting traction.... and, yes, i was skinny, too
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perello
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Amstel is still the second best beer I find here ... so its a dutch beer?
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EeVeeWee
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 3:42 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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| perello wrote: |
Amstel is still the second best beer I find here ... so its a dutch beer?
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Yes it is. Nowadays it is part of Heineken Beer. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 5:58 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Why is skinny guy pushing when there is nobody driving?
Skinny was more the norm back then. Back in the fifties and sixties when I was in school there was maybe one or two fat kids in class. |
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BarryL
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 9:38 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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| Fish wrote: |
I wonder where this is? |
It's not far from the equator at noon or it's at the equator a little before or after noon in June is my guess. |
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Fish
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Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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| BarryL wrote: |
| Fish wrote: |
I wonder where this is? |
It's not far from the equator at noon or it's at the equator a little before or after noon in June is my guess. |
Well then, by the plates and your kine eye, it must be North Africa.
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BarryL
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 7:10 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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| Fish wrote: |
| Well then, by the plates and your kine eye, it must be North Africa. |
Sheesh, correcting myself without knowing where it is it could be anywhere between Tropic of Cancer or Capricorn anytime of the year. Most likely it's Africa, September to March, equator to Capricorn. Wherever it is it's near noon, doh...nevermind me...back to vintage pics |
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stale air
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 6:21 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Nice photo, I think I've seen it before here. Love the Deluxe Bus, but the Boeing 707-331 in the background is the first aircraft that I got qualified on as a new flight attendant for Trans World Airlines way back in June of 1976. That aircraft brings back lots of great memories, and after 40 years I am still flying as a flight attendant, now for American Airlines on much more modern (but not nearly as memorable) aircraft. I only wish that back in my first years of flying that TWA had Split-Bus service vehicles lying about on the ramp.
Bill Bowman
p.s. That was shot on the ramp at LAX. Sure wish someone here owned that Pan Am Bus today... |
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velvetgreen
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 8:58 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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| ^^^Barndoor Logo'ed bus with OE fog lights- pinch me now |
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