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supercub
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2025 4:14 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Iβve never seen a Trabant in the US, which I miss as I spent most of the 1980s in special ops in East Berlin smuggling secrets out in them
Classics.com tells us there is one on the market at the moment. |
McPherson, Kansas car show 2024. My '66 next to a Trabant. Used to occasionally see a neon green one in the Newton, KS area back in the mid 2000's. Guess they all went to Kansas.
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KTPhil 
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2025 9:16 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| supercub wrote: |
Guess they all went to Kansas.
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Makes sense: no hills to struggle to climb.
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Shonandb
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finster
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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McPherson, Kansas car show 2024.
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is that kid doing the mcpherson strut? 
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Abscate
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:45 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| finster wrote: |
| supercub wrote: |
McPherson, Kansas car show 2024.
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He is indeed, and strutted to fame! His name is Torsten Barr.
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Rome
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2025 3:42 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Or at least the SM slide ( car to the left of the Beetle is a Citroen SM).
For the next car he might do the Leif Shpring.
And it's MacPherson, not Mc... |
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2025 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| Rome wrote: |
| And it's MacPherson, not Mc... |
He is to be forgiven, for he works on a McIntosh PC.
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2025 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| Rome wrote: |
| Or at least the SM slide ( car to the left of the Beetle is a Citroen SM). |
For the SM owner... 100mph Maserati
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Rome
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2025 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| Oops, I overlooked the spelling of the show's town. That was a good tie-in, finster. |
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Abscate
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 2:27 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| Rome wrote: |
| Oops, I overlooked the spelling of the show's town. That was a good tie-in, finster. |
I missed that too. Its hard to keep up here, sometimes. Did you know Angela Lansbury is dead?
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Shonandb
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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A custom truck/camper build.
edit:
Found another pic with the build notes sandwich board on it.
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mrinnovation1
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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| I saw something similar when I had my septic pumped. |
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NJ John
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 1:59 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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The Breadmobile is in town!
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scottyrocks
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 8:09 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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I don't think I've ever seen such perfect, flawless black paint.
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CoastalBug
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2025 9:24 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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McPherson, Kansas car show 2024. My '66 next to a Trabant. Used to occasionally see a neon green one in the Newton, KS area back in the mid 2000's. Guess they all went to Kansas.
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Looks alot like this little thing that just came up for sale. https://www.facebook.com/share/1BRtQJWNFi/
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finster
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 1:48 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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^ nice little autobianchi bianchina 'trasformabile' (ragtop) based on fiat 500 greasy bits. also available as saloon, cabrio, estate and 2 types of van! I like the saloon's quirky roofline
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Abscate
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 4:43 am Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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Back window reminds me of the Anglia - 1950 ish British Car.;;thinking of the lines it had to be a Ford Product
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melville
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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McPherson, Kansas car show 2024. My '66 next to a Trabant. Used to occasionally see a neon green one in the Newton, KS area back in the mid 2000's. Guess they all went to Kansas.
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Looks alot like this little thing that just came up for sale. https://www.facebook.com/share/1BRtQJWNFi/
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This is in the town just north of me:
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finster
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 12:37 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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spotted in the background of a photo in the oval forum, 1950s germany - any ideas?
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RUNKLE
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| Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 3:16 pm Post subject: Re: Let's Play, WTF is That!?! |
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spotted in the background of a photo in the oval forum, 1950s germany - any ideas?
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It looks like an early 1930s Framo V 501 Lieferwagen, with some strange covering over the grill, and for lack of a better term, wing/fender fillets/fairings.
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