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René R.
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El Camino, CA, July 1970
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stale air
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2025 7:15 am Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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NJ John
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2025 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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That’s the special krill filtering bumper.
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OldSchoolVW's 
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2025 10:00 am Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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| NJ John wrote: |
| That’s the special krill filtering bumper. |
Yes, the rarely seen baleen accessory. 
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stale air
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 11:16 am Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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finster
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 11:29 am Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2025 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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Minneapolis, MN in 1976
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stale air
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finster
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2025 11:58 am Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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^ wonder how well the doors closed afterwards... 
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EverettB
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Skim
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 3:06 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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René R.
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sportin-wood
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 8:40 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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^^ That '66 looks to have had a rough life! The stories of drug use it could tell....
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sportin-wood
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 8:42 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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All the people they picked up hitchhiking?
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Man, that would suck if it was true! Hopefully it wasn't Ted Bundy's camera roll...
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René R.
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage And Old VW Pics Topic |
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Sorry, I neglected to include context for all those photos.
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Good Samaritan and amateur photographer, Doug Biggert, photographed nearly 500 pictures of hitch-hikers he picked up on his 40 year long journey, in Northern California from the 1970s. Biggert first assembled a substantial number of pictures, carrying a binder full of them in his car, he showed them to hitchers he picked up and wanted to photograph – doing so, he said, “made explanation simpler.” Himself an outsider, Biggert obsessively collated his images of roadside Americans, which now retrospectively, and inadvertently, chronologically documents the changing face of America itself.
Over the years the project expanded well beyond his regular commute through the Gold Country with the result that these snapshot portraits capture not only an itinerant population of young teens, college kids, tourists and down and outers, but also the look of an evolving America from the 1970s onward. |
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