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Fri Oct 24, 2025 10:54 am

Fri Oct 24, 2025 10:55 am

Fri Oct 24, 2025 10:56 am

RUNKLE wrote:

Fri Oct 24, 2025 1:48 pm

RUNKLE wrote:

Getting ready to put a tiger in his tank?

Sat Oct 25, 2025 4:30 am

place de l'opera paris 1955 - colourised by ai photo but I think it's really a modified kubel

Wed Oct 29, 2025 6:54 am

driver wears the 'pig' badge of british 30 corps based at nienburg and later luneburg barracks until being disbanded in nov 46

Wed Oct 29, 2025 8:21 am

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Bd des Capucines & Pl. de l'Opéra, Paris, Île-de-France.

Photo was taken in 1953 by Jack Garofalo, and is part of a series covering the General Strike that paralyzed France for several weeks, bringing all public services to a standstill in August of that year.

finster wrote: place de l'opera paris 1955 - colourised by ai photo but I think it's really a modified kubel

Wed Oct 29, 2025 9:10 am

finster wrote: driver wears the 'pig' badge of british 30 corps based at nienburg and later luneburg barracks until being disbanded in nov 46

Bright color of seat frames, wich models, since when, how long?
Round bracket for seat, when?
Steering wheel, where does it come from?
Car looks not as type 82 e or type 51.

Are there some original painted "soviet brown" body parts of 1946 beetles out there? (June, July 1946)

Wed Oct 29, 2025 12:54 pm

wagen19 wrote: finster wrote: driver wears the 'pig' badge of british 30 corps based at nienburg and later luneburg barracks until being disbanded in nov 46

Bright color of seat frames, wich models, since when, how long?
Round bracket for seat, when?
Steering wheel, where does it come from?
Car looks not as type 82 e or type 51.

Are there some original painted "soviet brown" body parts of 1946 beetles out there? (June, July 1946)

Steering wheel is the same model as used on the Kol Radclyffe roadster.

Wed Oct 29, 2025 9:55 pm

peter schepens wrote: wagen19 wrote: finster wrote: driver wears the 'pig' badge of british 30 corps based at nienburg and later luneburg barracks until being disbanded in nov 46

Bright color of seat frames, wich models, since when, how long?
Round bracket for seat, when?
Steering wheel, where does it come from?
Car looks not as type 82 e or type 51.

Are there some original painted "soviet brown" body parts of 1946 beetles out there? (June, July 1946)

Steering wheel is the same model as used on the Kol Radclyffe roadster.
Can that model of steering wheel be the same, or similar as seen on a type 128?
Are these "special" parts individual made, or from different type of car?
Since when were the steering wheels from Petri, Aschaffenburg?

Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:38 am

wagen19 wrote: peter schepens wrote: wagen19 wrote: finster wrote: driver wears the 'pig' badge of british 30 corps based at nienburg and later luneburg barracks until being disbanded in nov 46

Bright color of seat frames, wich models, since when, how long?
Round bracket for seat, when?
Steering wheel, where does it come from?
Car looks not as type 82 e or type 51.

Are there some original painted "soviet brown" body parts of 1946 beetles out there? (June, July 1946)

Steering wheel is the same model as used on the Kol Radclyffe roadster.
Can that model of steering wheel be the same, or similar as seen on a type 128?
Are these "special" parts individual made, or from different type of car?
Since when were the steering wheels from Petri, Aschaffenburg?

Yes it does, but on the 128 type, it has a system with bigger ring to tilt the wheel to get better acces to the driverseat .

Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:08 am

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The Kol Radclyffe roadster with the steering wheel in question… looks the same as the image finster posted.

Edit: For clarification.

Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:43 pm

type 128 steering wheel looks more like a banjo style wheel

Thu Oct 30, 2025 4:21 pm

Radclyffe steering wheel has a much larger center hub outboard of the center horn button than in the British 30 corps' Beetle. It extends well beyond the plane where the banjo (?) spokes go across. Radclyffe wheel looks more like the one in the Type 128. Also, I don't see a "spreader bar" on the banjo spokes on the 30 corps' car.

Thu Oct 30, 2025 6:33 pm

EverettB wrote: RUNKLE wrote:

Getting ready to put a tiger in his tank?

or a lion in his beetle? there we tiger tanks, though. And Esso, of course

Fri Oct 31, 2025 3:03 am

Fri Oct 31, 2025 11:03 am

this car was brought to the uk by the actor James Robertson Justice

Sat Nov 01, 2025 3:35 am

wochenend und sonnenschein... \:D/