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Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:50 am

Where'd they park the roll backs and sunroofs ? Just curious ! ! !

Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:26 am

Vwcrewman wrote: Where'd they park the roll backs and sunroofs ? Just curious ! ! !

I guess they just could'nt park cars that they did not have...

Sat May 05, 2012 7:29 pm

Sat May 05, 2012 9:16 pm

Interesting the "BER" and other numbers on the hood as seen on two VWs in the photos :D

Sat May 05, 2012 9:38 pm

Blue Baron wrote:

So many Ragtops!!

Sun May 06, 2012 5:17 am

Id say the term "numbers matching" wasnt even in the vocabulary during this era.... :D .

Sun May 06, 2012 7:11 am

Nide artickel and interesting altough, they are ovals....But I whould love to own that yard now. :lol:

Tue May 08, 2012 10:23 am

Shadd wrote: Besides if it were possible to move backwards through time we would know about it already, we wouldn't have to wait for it.

i would go back to nov 5 1955 and not come back

Tue May 08, 2012 2:25 pm

john7 wrote:
i would go back to nov 5 1955 and not come back

And soon you´d miss the internet and 1000 other things and get bored by all the splits around wich are worth nearly nothing.

Tue May 08, 2012 2:42 pm

usariemen wrote: john7 wrote:
i would go back to nov 5 1955 and not come back

And soon you´d miss the internet and 1000 other things and get bored by all the splits around wich are worth nearly nothing.

Screw the internet. You'd be entertained just knowing whats going to happen next. With that "knowing" it would be easy to invest in those Splits, both Beetle and the Gold mine Bus.

Would that disrupt the space time continuum. 8-[

Wow this topic has turned.....

Tue May 08, 2012 2:50 pm

I had read that the REME workshop closed down in 1949, but apparently it continued into the 1950s. Who knows how many cars were rebuilt in total. (And barndoors too!)

Thu May 17, 2012 10:21 am

Some more photos of CCG wrecks in the postwar period.

That last one looks like it was used for target practice!

Thu May 17, 2012 11:32 am

Blue Baron wrote:

This one has the Klubel headlights.

Thu May 17, 2012 4:47 pm

splitjunkie wrote: Blue Baron wrote:

This one has the Klubel headlights.

Is that a two piece front bumper like is used on the VW38?

Fri May 18, 2012 8:01 am

metalchomper wrote:
Is that a two piece front bumper like is used on the VW38?

No that is an awful bended, z-shaped bumper like used after bad accidents.

Fri May 18, 2012 9:37 am

i wish those were still sat there, mabye that yard still has some old parts fallen off the cars all that time ago...

Fri May 18, 2012 10:12 am

Is that as much cars as it looks like in the far background?
Do we have numbers how many CCG cars where in use?

Fri May 18, 2012 8:44 pm

Blue Baron wrote:

Wow!

BAOR British Army Of The Rhine - Beetles, also RAF etc. crazy all those 1953 Zwitter and 53/54 Standard Oval Sunroof cars, seems the British Army in Germany was partial to ordering Sunroof cars for service, I've seen many period photos with them driving around......

I personally owned a Glockner Type 9 Beetle, which was a reconditioned/rebuilt car from spare parts - wrecks - while 1944/46 and 1948 parts were in my car.

Tom

Tue May 29, 2012 9:36 am

Blauchen L331 wrote: seems the British Army in Germany was partial to ordering Sunroof cars for service, I've seen many period photos with them driving around......Tom Probably as an escape hatch for when they rolled them over. :lol:

Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:31 pm

Howdy, visiting from the vanagon area, admiring the work of you folks who make beautiful cars from piles of dust and came across this and gotta say I'm a little spooked as my grandfather was a serviceman killed in a post-war car crash in Germany. So I can't help but look at some of those that looked fatal and wonder,,,

Drive Careful and Be Well!