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Steelz21
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Location: Ontario canada
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 Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:09 am Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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| nice! was that from northumbria classic car hire? and did you drive over to lindisfarne/holy island? |
Yes it was, the owner was fantastic and I can’t recommend him enough.
Next time it’s the E-type convertible.
No we did not make it to Holy Island in the Ghia, we did go back in the regular hire car.
I grew up in Sunderland so the North East Coast holds a special place in my heart. |
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finster
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Location: not far from the madding crowd
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:43 am Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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nice! was that from northumbria classic car hire? and did you drive over to lindisfarne/holy island?
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Steelz21
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Location: Ontario canada
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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Same day different castle.
Warkworth this time. |
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Steelz21
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Location: Ontario canada
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| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:04 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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Parked up outside Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland UK in a Ghia my brother had rented for me for the day trip up the North East coast.
What a memorable day, it really did ramp up the Ghia search once I got home to Canada. |
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ED LEGENDA
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Joined: December 23, 2013
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Location: USA/EUROPE
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| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:03 am Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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68 Karmann Ghia near Presidential Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania
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mukluk
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Location: Clyde, TX
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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My '60 at the NRAO Very Large Array telescope located roughly 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico.
https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/VLA/
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Rome
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Location: Pearl River, NY
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| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:50 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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My '77 Beetle at the M4 Sherman tank displayed in front of the West Point Museum in Highland Falls, New York which is the village just south of the West Point Military Academy. October 17, 2020.
Wise guy good friend who is also very VW devoted (currently has 3 Ghias, split window Beetle; Speedster replica) remarked that I was about to start off on the drive under a full tank.   |
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Rome
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Location: Pearl River, NY
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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Driving back from the Connecticut VW Association meet in Westbrook, Connecticut this afternoon in my '77 Beetle, I wanted to stop at the BP gas station in Elmsford, Westchester Count; New York to photograph the Beetle with the large "Muffler Man"/ Paul Bunyan on site. The gas station is at the northwest corner of NY Rt 9A and the Cross-Westchester Expressway I-287. While waiting for the light to turn green from the off-ramp, I spotted my Ghia friend rbfara across the intersection in his fine L452 Paprika '60 Ghia Cabrio . I turned into the gas station, and rb was able to back up onto the property. He happened to be coming back from a FLAPS just up the street- a total coincidence that we were at the same light. We took some shots of our cars. More info about these statues: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/37422
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crukab
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Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 11:36 am Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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"Chopper" @ the VFW in Morrisville Vt.
Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park N.Y.
Grad. 1985
Wife & old '63 Dc, Colorado, circa 1982
Flatirons, Boulder Co. w/ fellow Cooks at a Hilton we worked at, circa 1983...
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Rome
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Location: Pearl River, NY
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2020 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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My '77 Beetle at the railroad station in the village of Piermont, New York. It's on the western side of the Hudson River, just south of the Tappan Zee (now the Governor Mario M. Cuomo) Bridge and the town of Nyack. The train station was a stop on the Erie Railroad, built in 1873 and closed in 1966. The tracks were removed in the late 20th century, the abandoned station restored, and the track bed is now a bike path. The dark blue "Western Union Telegragh & Cable Office" sign is ceramic and appears to be genuine. National Register of Historic Places. Photo taken late August 2020.
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crocteau
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Location: Philaburbia
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| Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2019 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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near Kamloops
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TDCTDI
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:48 am Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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New River Gorge Bridge.
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crocteau
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| Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:15 am Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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Lower Manhattan background
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obus 
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Stock Steve
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Location: My Left Nutmeg State
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:21 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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Drove in to New Haven yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 6/9/2019) to mail some stuff at the main post office that’s located right near the big New Haven (CT) IKEA store (IKEA’s campus incorporates the historic old Armstrong Rubber building, that is considered an architectural treasure of New Haven—although it does not appear that IKEA is actually doing anything with it—other than hanging big “sale” banners on it that are visible from the highway--even though they’ve had to have been there now at least 10 or 15 years).
Top got put up yesterday, because I'm Creeky commuting this week, while my Subaru is in the shop for some elective maintenance & repairs--and it's going to rain this week, so, 'nuff said (fresh Rain-X too, of course!)...
MORE INFO: Article from just last year—interesting: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/04/26/brutalist-marcel...otel-ikea/ ... And from some further google checking, it appears IKEA New Haven first opened its doors in 2004.
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challomoner
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| Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2019 9:18 am Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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Tintern abbey wexford
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54rag
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| Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:32 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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Abbey Road, in London...
My Manx wear the LMW28IF plate 
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Jacks
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| Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:37 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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And the 60’s 
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Fish
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| Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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That was the place to be in the 70’s.
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spencersk8
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| Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:20 pm Post subject: Re: Pics of your VW's and New/Interesting/Historic Landmarks |
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Hussongs in Ensenada |
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