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johnshenry
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 Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:26 am Post subject: Re: Earliest brown faced speedo? |
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Here's a grey face speedo dated Jan '49 on eBay. So potentially we have narrowed the first brown face down to Feb-Apr '49? And again, as someone suggested earlier, there was a lot of prototyping/shows going on that year. VDO might have been asked by VW to come up with a new and different face graphic design for some new models coming out.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/303852432488
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finster
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| Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 9:46 am Post subject: Re: Earliest brown faced speedo? |
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does that logo look like it's been somehow 'worked'?
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ZENVWDRIVER
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| Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 9:49 am Post subject: Re: Earliest brown faced speedo? |
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| johnshenry wrote: |
Here's a grey face speedo dated Jan '49 on eBay. So potentially we have narrowed the first brown face down to Feb-Apr '49? And again, as someone suggested earlier, there was a lot of prototyping/shows going on that year. VDO might have been asked by VW to come up with a new and different face graphic design for some new models coming out.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/303852432488 |
Yes, VDO may have been asked that, by VW - that's not fact though - just a hunch or an educated-guess, at best - z
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johnshenry
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| Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 9:52 am Post subject: Re: Earliest brown faced speedo? |
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| finster wrote: |
does that logo look like it's been somehow 'worked'?
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I thought that too. I wonder if they just filled in the recesses in the mold to take away the "cogs".
That pod is at 1155E with 2 hours left in the auction. Broken ground fork, knobs have out/replaced, missing bus barm missing screws and wire eyelets... Wow.
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ZENVWDRIVER
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| Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Earliest brown faced speedo? |
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… would be interesting to discuss with the buyer - why he purchased that unit - you/we might know him - we'll have wait and see - z
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5/50, pastel green 11G - SOLD
8/50, gray 11A Beetle
6/52, pastel green 11C - SOLD
11/4/52, black Zwitter - SOLD to my little bro.
1954 Porsche, pre A, with VW 36 horse- SOLD
1/54, black 11C Beetle - TRADED
2/55 Iceland green Beetle, on a 1965 pan
3/55 113 Beetle, stratos silver
1955 Messerschmitt KR175 - SOLD, sadly
1960 single cab
1962 SO33, with SO 42 interior
9/63 Pacific blue, Ghia
'87 Toyota MR2
'02 WestFORDia E-150, GAVE TO OUR SON
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