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Blue Baron
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:34 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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1949 full model line introduction, including Export, Standard, Hebmuller, police car, ambulance, trailer, and display chassis.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:29 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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What is that a coach builder? Or a line of modifications?
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peter schepens
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:41 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| Blue Baron wrote: |
1949 full model line introduction, including Export, Standard, Hebmuller, police car, ambulance, trailer, and display chassis.
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Interesting pict... The beetles are standards.. the Hebmuller has strange wheel painting and no Heb logo. So it must be a real early heb. As the beetles has no export trim... it must been june 49.
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usariemen
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| peter schepens wrote: |
| Blue Baron wrote: |
1949 full model line introduction, including Export, Standard, Hebmuller, police car, ambulance, trailer, and display chassis.
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Interesting pict... The beetles are standards.. the Hebmuller has strange wheel painting and no Heb logo. So it must be a real early heb. As the beetles has no export trim... it must been june 49. |
The Heb might be this one :
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...1ab1e867b5
Note the prices written onto the side windows. 7500 Marks we would love to pay today for a Heb.
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peter schepens
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Carsten, You might be correct. But I think it is one of the 25 vorserie auto's to be shown around Germany at dealers.. Maybe that is why there is no Heb logo.. Maybe not allowed at that point.
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 3:03 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Even though Volkswagen turned to coachbuilders, these models were still considered part of its product line. You would be buying a Volkswagen 2-seat convertible, not a Hebmuller. Also, even though an official export model had not yet been introduced, the fancier version with chrome handles was ordinarily exported. Finally, a close examination of the source photo reveals that the small VW logo on these early Hebmuller hubcaps appears to match the early VW logo on the wall, with the tips of the "W" squared off and not connected to the outside ring.
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usariemen
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 1:16 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| ... Finally, a close examination of the source photo reveals that the small VW logo on these early Hebmuller hubcaps appears to match the early VW logo on the wall, with the tips of the "W" squared off and not connected to the outside ring. |
You can tell that by the pic above?
I can not see that. Even looking close up.
Do you have it in a better resolution?
If it is the car from my other post, the hubcaps look like that.
Looking normal, or? But pressed very deep and strong.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| Blue Baron wrote: |
| Note the prices written onto the side windows. 7500 Marks we would love to pay today for a Heb. |
7500 marks in late 1949 exchanged to $637. Allowing for inflation, today that equates to a current dollar value of only $6664!!
Hard to believe they were that inexpensive. A current new model beetle costs four times as much in comparison! |
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:20 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Actually that quote came from Carsten, not me (giving credit where credit is due), and to answer Carsten's question, yes I did have a somewhat higher resolution photo, but I reduced the size to post here, and didn't save the original image. I thought about posting a thread about the hubcap, but frankly, I believed that you guys had seen it all before, and there was nothing new to show.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:19 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| favguy wrote: |
| Blue Baron wrote: |
| Note the prices written onto the side windows. 7500 Marks we would love to pay today for a Heb. |
7500 marks in late 1949 exchanged to $637. Allowing for inflation, today that equates to a current dollar value of only $6664!!
Hard to believe they were that inexpensive. A current new model beetle costs four times as much in comparison! |
I am guessing the exchange rate was not favorable to Germany at that time, which may explain what sounds like a very low price in US $.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 6:58 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| Regarding the cost of the cars above - I have seen somewhere that in 1950 a Beetle cost the average worker in Germany 1.5 years salary... |
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Blue Baron
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JollieOllie
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2018 6:18 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Anymore information on that ambulance beetle? Does anybody have other photos?
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:56 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Here is another one
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