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panel67 Samba Member
Joined: June 21, 2006 Posts: 300 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2022 10:12 am Post subject: Barndoor pick-up with treasure chest lid opening downwards? |
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I bought this postcard with artwork by Viktor Mundorff.
It shows an early panel and a smoothgate pick-up.
My eye was drawn to the treasure chest. The lid opens downwards??
Is that a mistake or ??
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TornadoRed06 Samba Member
Joined: August 30, 2020 Posts: 198 Location: Porto - Portugal
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 6:46 am Post subject: Re: Barndoor pick-up with treasure chest lid opening downwards? |
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I guess I haven't seen any of this before...
Regarding your inquire, I think it most probably is... unless by that time some SonderAufbauProgramm was setup in a shaddy corner of the Wolfsburg factory. Maybe no one have noticed it because everyone was drooling with the visible smooth gates. Certainly, this one would get the Mmystery code in the VW Build Certificate...
Hey! thanks for sharing. |
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sled Samba Member
Joined: February 16, 2005 Posts: 6179
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:21 am Post subject: Re: Barndoor pick-up with treasure chest lid opening downwards? |
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impossible to know if it was done by VW (doubtful) but it wouldn't surprise me at if a skilled metalwork or coach building shop performed the modification early on.
in later years, Volkswagen offered a similar model from the factory
the "tieflader" (side loader)
as well as single cabs with slide out drawers
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panel67 Samba Member
Joined: June 21, 2006 Posts: 300 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 9:11 am Post subject: Re: Barndoor pick-up with treasure chest lid opening downwards? |
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I find it hard to believe it was a “mistake”.
Mundorff was a highly skilled artist who did (almost) all artwork for Volkswagen in the fifties.
If it was a mistake it is doubtfull VW would approve publication. No one at VW would have noticed??
I found a second postcard on the internet (not mine) with the same scene, about 5 (?) years later.
(If you put them side by side you can play the game “spot the X differences” 😃)
Here the pick-up has a lid opening upwards. 🤔
So. Maybe, just maybe, the very first barndoor smoothgate pick-up trucks (or just the “prototypes”) had a lid that opened downwards.......??
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j.pickens Samba Member
Joined: December 03, 2002 Posts: 9789 Location: Exit 7, New Jersey
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Barndoor pick-up with treasure chest lid opening downwards? |
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sled wrote: |
impossible to know if it was done by VW (doubtful) but it wouldn't surprise me at if a skilled metalwork or coach building shop performed the modification early on.
as well as single cabs with slide out drawers
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mandraks Samba Member
Joined: November 28, 2004 Posts: 7047 Location: Lawrenceville, Ga
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Barndoor pick-up with treasure chest lid opening downwards? |
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i am pretty sure this is just artistic license. Probably never saw a single cab with the treasure chest door open until later, hence the "fix".
Also the panel with the cargo doors on the left, just drawn this way so you can see them.... _________________ regards
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djfordmanjack Samba Member
Joined: June 15, 2009 Posts: 2172 Location: Graz, Austria, Europe
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:37 pm Post subject: Re: Barndoor pick-up with treasure chest lid opening downwards? |
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P.
The presentation of the single cab in the Sept. 1952 Auto Motor Sport Magazine has just a stock ( upper hinges) appearing treasure chest in place. I have never seen a low hinged treasure chest before in any factory pics or brochures.
My factory stamped 52 smoothgate photo prints ( hanging on the wall next to my desk) also just have the usual setup.
If you have ever owned a SC and loaded the cargo area, you have probably called out all the names I have, towards the stock design, it SUCKS. smashed forehead, ruined backbones and all. it is crap. the low hinge design featured in your ad would have been much better imho. would have made a great ramp or pedestal to slide heavy things in without ruining one's spine...just saying. _________________ Hotrods, Fords, Veedubs and Triumph Twins !
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finster Samba Member
Joined: May 26, 2012 Posts: 7935 Location: north o' the border
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2022 2:55 am Post subject: Re: Barndoor pick-up with treasure chest lid opening downwards? |
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most probably artistic licence and from working as an illustrator I know that the publications managers signing off the artwork wouldn't know what thay were looking at
just yesterday I saw a new book about dunkirk (from the german perspective) advertised. the cover photo of german soldiers is reversed and nobody spotted it before going to print! _________________ "we're here on Earth to fart around" kurt vonnegut
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