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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 11:02 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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U.S. Forces in Germany
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 10:50 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 10:55 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Afrika Corp.
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 9:56 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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KdF-Wagen photo
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2018 12:35 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2018 12:36 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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peter schepens Samba Member
Joined: April 17, 2003 Posts: 1013 Location: belgium Caesars camp
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2018 1:34 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Blue Baron wrote: |
KdF-Wagen photo
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I even think it is a 1938 car. _________________ Zelensis, glassfibre body made in Belgium , disigned and built on a VW platform About 25 body's built.
Hebmuller info wanted for http://www.hebmueller-registry.com/home.html |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Mon May 28, 2018 1:17 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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allsidius Samba Member
Joined: February 02, 2010 Posts: 1475 Location: Norway
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 1:27 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Interesting how the perspective and lens distortion seems to indicate that the IFA is smaller than the Beetle. In fact the F9 was designed to be a KdF-wagen upmarket challenger, and so was slightly wider and longer than the Type 60. The Beetle is 1539 mm wide nominally, the F9 is 1600 mm.
The Kapitän is a big car, but it is just 170 mm wider than the IFA at 1760 mm. _________________ 1973 1303S w sunroof Click to view image
1978 1303 convertible (sold)Click to view image
1966 1300 RIPClick to view image
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pastellgreen Samba Member
Joined: January 06, 2012 Posts: 1036 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 1:33 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Please, this is a DKW, not an IFA! |
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allsidius Samba Member
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 4:59 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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pastellgreen wrote: |
Please, this is a DKW, not an IFA! |
My bad, you are right. It is one of the first DKW F89s, with identical grill ribs, not alternately thin and thick like on later models. But they are based on the same car, and the overall width is identical, as far as I can see. For some reason, Wikipedia does not quote the width of these cars, but the IFA is 1600 mm wide.
My point being that the DKW F9 was developed specificially to compete with the Beetle, offering a slightly larger, better appointed, streamlined car with a sub-1-litre engine. The IFA F9 was manufactured in the DDR post-war, using original patterns and presses, while the DKW was reconstructed in BRD more or less to memory by the engineers who had worked on the F9, but were lucky enough to end up on the right side of the "Iron curtain". _________________ 1973 1303S w sunroof Click to view image
1978 1303 convertible (sold)Click to view image
1966 1300 RIPClick to view image
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Randolph_Carter Samba Member
Joined: April 08, 2017 Posts: 221 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 11:14 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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allsidius wrote: |
pastellgreen wrote: |
Please, this is a DKW, not an IFA! |
My bad, you are right. It is one of the first DKW F89s, with identical grill ribs, not alternately thin and thick like on later models. |
It's a F91 "Sonderklasse," the successor of the F89 "Meisterklasse." The F89 had the alternating grill ribs, the F91 the identical ones.
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mikeandkirsti Samba Member
Joined: June 16, 2009 Posts: 284 Location: EU
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2018 3:20 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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allsidius wrote: |
pastellgreen wrote: |
Please, this is a DKW, not an IFA! |
My bad, you are right. It is one of the first DKW F89s, with identical grill ribs, not alternately thin and thick like on later models. But they are based on the same car, and the overall width is identical, as far as I can see. For some reason, Wikipedia does not quote the width of these cars, but the IFA is 1600 mm wide.
My point being that the DKW F9 was developed specificially to compete with the Beetle, offering a slightly larger, better appointed, streamlined car with a sub-1-litre engine. The IFA F9 was manufactured in the DDR post-war, using original patterns and presses, while the DKW was reconstructed in BRD more or less to memory by the engineers who had worked on the F9, but were lucky enough to end up on the right side of the "Iron curtain". |
Here is a story of a 1939 DKW F9 Prototype recently found in Tallinn, Estonia:
http://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-second-dkw-f9-prototype-discovered.html |
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Blue Baron VW Aficionado
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 5:47 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Randolph_Carter Samba Member
Joined: April 08, 2017 Posts: 221 Location: Germany
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2018 9:53 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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A car from the district of Gross-Gerau, maybe even from Opel-town Ruesselsheim. |
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