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finster
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so are these samba forum posts shown in your book? and in what way? you describe it as a scrap book which suggests that you've lifted items and pasted them together.
did you ask Everett if that was ok? did you ask us if that was ok?
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RockStock
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Blimey. What guff.
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VWdilemma
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| Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2025 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: Barndoor VW logo pod |
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| Excellent! Where did you find this? If you feel like giving me your email address then I will copy you into a follow up email to VW HQ. |
Just a humble recognition, admittance & apology of your wind-up to our lovely TS contributors - or Collective Misrememberers in waffle speak - would be lovely, John |
I didn’t take anyone here for the type that needs an apology for stress-testing their position. Disappointing. Fyi, an acknowledgment of TS members’ contribution was in fact mentioned with due respect. And despite the collective overuse of boomer humour and weightless insults, it’s been an enjoyable enough exercise from my pov. Please don’t taint it with hurt feelings. Surely that’s not the length of your tip?... To this latest piece of evidence; what do think it’s evidence of exactly? VW mismanagement? Mishap? Miscommunication? Misremembering? Cover up? If any of these seem like a satisfactory answer then good luck to you. But if you actually want to make sense of it then you’ll happily depart with £51. Otherwise you can all keep chasing squirrels and pretend you’ve solved a mystery. But you haven’t. You haven’t established anything meaningful- other than inadvertently strengthen my hypothesis. To which I thank you, but owe you nothing for it, other than what I’ve already given - some much needed pushback against a half baked theory. Half baked because you don’t know half the story. The other half btw doesn’t need your buy-in or your monetary purchase. You grossly misunderstand your own relevance if you think so. You’re being given an opportunity to expand your knowledge and upgrade your thinking. Taking it or leaving it has no impact on me either way. But rest assured, if you take it I won’t go chasing you down for a humble apology. All the best. https://themandeladilemma.com/ |
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Pez 
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| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2025 10:05 am Post subject: Re: Barndoor VW logo pod |
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| Excellent! Where did you find this? If you feel like giving me your email address then I will copy you into a follow up email to VW HQ. |
Just a humble recognition,admittance & apology of your wind-up to our lovely TS contributors - or Collective Misrememberers in waffle speak - would be lovely, John |
exactly! plus you showed the source... 
51 quid for the book? nein danke! keep taking the pills  |
Makes a fella want to free source some literature…
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| Excellent! Where did you find this? If you feel like giving me your email address then I will copy you into a follow up email to VW HQ. |
Just a humble recognition,admittance & apology of your wind-up to our lovely TS contributors - or Collective Misrememberers in waffle speak - would be lovely, John |
exactly! plus you showed the source...
51 quid for the book? nein danke! keep taking the pills
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RockStock
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| Excellent! Where did you find this? If you feel like giving me your email address then I will copy you into a follow up email to VW HQ. |
Just a humble recognition, admittance & apology of your wind-up to our lovely TS contributors - or Collective Misrememberers in waffle speak - would be lovely, John
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VWdilemma
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| Listen here secret squirrel, don’t be holding out on your reporting from the suits at HQ. Share the details with the rest of us! |
All details are in the book  Any updates will be cataloged via my Substack (eventually) https://themandeladilemma.com/ |
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Pez
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Listen here secret squirrel, don’t be holding out on your reporting from the suits at HQ. Share the details with the rest of us!
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| This whole thread felt like someone trying to prove there was not a cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom emblem. But, educational as well as entertaining. |
Sshh... https://themandeladilemma.com/ |
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VWdilemma
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Excellent! Where did you find this? If you feel like giving me your email address then I will copy you into a follow up email to VW HQ. |
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This whole thread felt like someone trying to prove there was not a cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom emblem. But, educational as well as entertaining.
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VWdilemma
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| For Volkswagen to make a no-gapped logo makes no sense. All of these are reproductions. The VW logo was officially patented in 1948. The first appearance of the hood emblem on Beetles was 1949. Why would they make the first ones with letters seamlessly connected after they just patented the gapped logo? Even the owners manuals from 1949 have the gapped emblem sketched into the phantom view diagram. Also this theory about them being “left-overs from past times” doesn’t hold water either. The fist bus was 1950. Where else have this type of emblems been found? What model? Where on the car? So “left-over” from where? When? Everyone thinking they are in possession of an original emblem that is connected has been fooled. And everyone who is making these emblems now are perpetuating the false theory that they were ever connected. |
Hello VWdilemma, coming back to your first post.
Imo, it´s the opposite of truth, to claim `the first appearance of the hood emblem on beetles was 1949´.
According to the ´Pidoll-book´1994, the first appearance was 1941, when serial production of the beetle started.
If this is not clear or sure enough, the May 1944 spare book for type 82 and 82 E lists ´Firmenplakette´on front hood with spare number ´11 815 041´.
More over, in the ´Beschreibung...´ of type 82 and 82 E from June 1943, a emblem on frot hood is recognizable, pics 32 and 34 can be seen.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/1943_kubelwagen_ops_manual/1943%20Kubelwagen-Typ-82.pdf
Very kind would be, if you, or VW could name the suppliers, who produced VW hood emblems from 1949 till 9´52, connected and gapped. As all suppliers had to be payed, there should be correspondence. In round figures, the number for all these emblems should be around 150 000.
If there are or were producers and dealer for repro-emblems, please name them and show evidence when they started their business with the ´connected-´VW-logos.
Nice pics also here: https://www.designenlassen.de/blog/bekannte-logos/vw-logo/
Interesting is the story about several different VW-logos pre war and between May 1945 and December 1949 in VW literature. The book ´Volkswagen Käfer´, Borgeson, Shuler, Sloninger´, 1994, ISBN 3-89365-363-5 has also good info.
With many thanks to all people here and reading this, who are willing to respect the ´die 7 Kerngrundsaetze von VW´
https://www.volkswagen-group.com/de/konzerngrundsaetze-15957
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I am distinguishing the VW letter insignia hood emblems from other such hood emblems like the ones in this thread. I had assumed this was understood. https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=210118
This covers the bulk of your comment. With regard to this particular sentence, “type 82 and 82 E from June 1943, a emblem on frot hood is recognizable, pics 32 and 34 can be seen.”… If you are referring to the images on p.95 & p.96 then I would say that these are far from recognisable as any type of hood emblem, let alone the VW letter insignia emblem… https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/1943_kubelwagen_ops_manual/1943%20Kubelwagen-Typ-82.pdf
Additionally, the 1946 handbook (p.39) clearly shows no hood emblem. Which doesn’t work for your proposed timeline…
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/1946bug/1946%20Beetle%20Owners%20Manual.pdf
With regard to this section of your comment,
“Very kind would be, if you, or VW could name the suppliers, who produced VW hood emblems from 1949 till 9´52, connected and gapped. As all suppliers had to be payed, there should be correspondence. In round figures, the number for all these emblems should be around 150 000.
If there are or were producers and dealer for repro-emblems, please name them and show evidence when they started their business with the ´connected-´VW-logos.”
Firstly, I am not affiliated with Volkswagen in any way. So the above request for evidence is the kind I should ask of you, if you insist that these are original hood emblems. As it stands from evidence gathered so far, 1949 was the first year that the VW lettering insignia logo appeared on the beetle hood. With regard to third party suppliers back then, I have yet to find any confirmed. Have you? But of course I’m not promoting a theory that posits them to be originals - you are. Personally, I believe they are reproductions. Therefore the onus is on you to prove a theory that is at odds with the official Volkswagen history. |
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wagen19
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| For Volkswagen to make a no-gapped logo makes no sense. All of these are reproductions. The VW logo was officially patented in 1948. The first appearance of the hood emblem on Beetles was 1949. Why would they make the first ones with letters seamlessly connected after they just patented the gapped logo? Even the owners manuals from 1949 have the gapped emblem sketched into the phantom view diagram. Also this theory about them being “left-overs from past times” doesn’t hold water either. The fist bus was 1950. Where else have this type of emblems been found? What model? Where on the car? So “left-over” from where? When? Everyone thinking they are in possession of an original emblem that is connected has been fooled. And everyone who is making these emblems now are perpetuating the false theory that they were ever connected. |
Hello VWdilemma, coming back to your first post.
Imo, it´s the opposite of truth, to claim `the first appearance of the hood emblem on beetles was 1949´.
According to the ´Pidoll-book´1994, the first appearance was 1941, when serial production of the beetle started.
If this is not clear or sure enough, the May 1944 spare book for type 82 and 82 E lists ´Firmenplakette´on front hood with spare number ´11 815 041´.
More over, in the ´Beschreibung...´ of type 82 and 82 E from June 1943, a emblem on frot hood is recognizable, pics 32 and 34 can be seen.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/1943_kubelwagen_ops_manual/1943%20Kubelwagen-Typ-82.pdf
Very kind would be, if you, or VW could name the suppliers, who produced VW hood emblems from 1949 till 9´52, connected and gapped. As all suppliers had to be payed, there should be correspondence. In round figures, the number for all these emblems should be around 150 000.
If there are or were producers and dealer for repro-emblems, please name them and show evidence when they started their business with the ´connected-´VW-logos.
Nice pics also here: https://www.designenlassen.de/blog/bekannte-logos/vw-logo/
Interesting is the story about several different VW-logos pre war and between May 1945 and December 1949 in VW literature. The book ´Volkswagen Käfer´, Borgeson, Shuler, Sloninger´, 1994, ISBN 3-89365-363-5 has also good info.
With many thanks to all people here and reading this, who are willing to respect the ´die 7 Kerngrundsaetze von VW´
https://www.volkswagen-group.com/de/konzerngrundsaetze-15957
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wagen19
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| No, there was a response. But not a satisfying one I felt worth sharing. Apparently they do not have any images of the 1949 logo newly affixed. Why you wouldn't capture this on a model displaying it for the first time is a bit odd imo. But that's the official response from VW. |
Thanks for your answer. So for now, it seems, at WOB: no pics, no knowledge, no interest.
Imo, for now it seems, all the field watching knowledge here on samba still seems to be true.
Thinking towards your opinion, it seems, it´s still not prooved, that in late 49, there were gapped logos fixed originally on cars. Was there something said, how many suppliers for logos VW had, in 1949?
I think, the VW info you got is interesting for all samba readers here.
Thanks |
I appreciate your reply and thoughts. I did follow a few of the posted leads (of those companies that possibly made logos for VW during that era) but none seems to fit the timeline. The company Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst began supplying Volkswagen with outer door handles and keys in 1948. Their product portfolio also included emblems and trims at a very early stage in their history, but I cannot definitively show they supplied the first VW hood emblems in 1949. The long-standing relationship between Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst and Volkswagen, however, makes it a plausible possibility.
So we could speculate that Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst started making the emblems when its factory was dismantled, resulting in them halting production of the emblems at Huf’s. And that these first batch were the connected logos. I speculate about this because of the following passage I found; “In 1949, as part of the reparations imposed on Germany by the victorious Allied forces, Huf’s factory was dismantled and the machinery subsequently shipped to Belgium. The company was allowed, however, to continue its operations with newly purchased machines.” (Source: International Directory of COMPANY HISTORIES VOLUME 171, (GALE, 2015).
However, there were other supplier options for Volkswagen close enough to Wolfsburg that they could have used around that time. It would make more sense that a smaller company, whose records aren’t officially recognised by Volkswagen, made what is now the connected logos.
I still have my doubts they are original though. For me to except they are, I would have to except that the company who made them was either given design specs and instructions that deviated from the original design (i.e. had joined lettering). Or that the company who made them stuffed up the design based off the correct specs and instructions.
I believe the first scenario would have left more evidence of this. Even as a legendary story. And would’ve created a mystique around the models that wore them. There is no such providential evidence of this save the last 20 years.
The second scenario is even less convincing; “Oh, you stuffed up our designs? No problem. They were only for the first models wearing them on the hood. No big deal. Just try and get it right next time.”
Neither of these scenarios stand to reason. The only scenario that does is the one I have already proposed. Which doesn’t seem to be too popular here. And is quite possibly incorrect. But in the absence of better evidence, it seems the more likely answer imo. |
I think it´s rather easy.
For me (and many others), it´s clear, at least many of the first original 1949 export logos were ungapped, till around mid 1950.
I do not deny, the possibility that there was parallel another VW supplier who pressed already in 1949 gapped logos.
But for now, we still saw no that theory prooving pics for gapped logos, let´s say for 1949 only.
But... trying to think with VW factory view:
Maybe there is a problem, what kind of logo is offical licenced.
As far as I know, it´s the capitals "V and W inside a circle", so two single capitals divided by a gap.
The ungapped logo on all the pressed emblems fixed on cars from 1949-50 can be regarded as a kind of not correctly licenced "artwork", because of the connected capitals.
So the existing and original 49-50 emblems can have been a failure, accident, mishap, mispressing, that was detected and corrected in mid 1950.
If so, it´s understandable that VW nowadays officially doesn´t want to talk or write about old failures, or show old pics to proove that.
The old "KdF-VW-Logo" was gapped, compare, with many thanks to iwlego:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=1754988
Thinking about numbers of the ungapped logo, emblems: when started with 14 A and 15 verts and exports in 49 till stop around mid 50, some for busses, estimate 50 000.
And finally, so... no doubt about, the 1949-50 emblems with ungapped logo were original and reality, but probably not exactly correct in regard of the officilly licenced gapped (only) logo.
Similar to in small numbers printed "uncorrect" poststamps. |
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VWdilemma
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| No, there was a response. But not a satisfying one I felt worth sharing. Apparently they do not have any images of the 1949 logo newly affixed. Why you wouldn't capture this on a model displaying it for the first time is a bit odd imo. But that's the official response from VW. |
Thanks for your answer. So for now, it seems, at WOB: no pics, no knowledge, no interest.
Imo, for now it seems, all the field watching knowledge here on samba still seems to be true.
Thinking towards your opinion, it seems, it´s still not prooved, that in late 49, there were gapped logos fixed originally on cars. Was there something said, how many suppliers for logos VW had, in 1949?
I think, the VW info you got is interesting for all samba readers here.
Thanks |
I appreciate your reply and thoughts. I did follow a few of the posted leads (of those companies that possibly made logos for VW during that era) but none seems to fit the timeline. The company Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst began supplying Volkswagen with outer door handles and keys in 1948. Their product portfolio also included emblems and trims at a very early stage in their history, but I cannot definitively show they supplied the first VW hood emblems in 1949. The long-standing relationship between Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst and Volkswagen, however, makes it a plausible possibility.
So we could speculate that Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst started making the emblems when its factory was dismantled, resulting in them halting production of the emblems at Huf’s. And that these first batch were the connected logos. I speculate about this because of the following passage I found; “In 1949, as part of the reparations imposed on Germany by the victorious Allied forces, Huf’s factory was dismantled and the machinery subsequently shipped to Belgium. The company was allowed, however, to continue its operations with newly purchased machines.” (Source: International Directory of COMPANY HISTORIES VOLUME 171, (GALE, 2015).
However, there were other supplier options for Volkswagen close enough to Wolfsburg that they could have used around that time. It would make more sense that a smaller company, whose records aren’t officially recognised by Volkswagen, made what is now the connected logos.
I still have my doubts they are original though. For me to except they are, I would have to except that the company who made them was either given design specs and instructions that deviated from the original design (i.e. had joined lettering). Or that the company who made them stuffed up the design based off the correct specs and instructions.
I believe the first scenario would have left more evidence of this. Even as a legendary story. And would’ve created a mystique around the models that wore them. There is no such providential evidence of this save the last 20 years.
The second scenario is even less convincing; “Oh, you stuffed up our designs? No problem. They were only for the first models wearing them on the hood. No big deal. Just try and get it right next time.”
Neither of these scenarios stand to reason. The only scenario that does is the one I have already proposed. Which doesn’t seem to be too popular here. And is quite possibly incorrect. But in the absence of better evidence, it seems the more likely answer imo. |
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| No, there was a response. But not a satisfying one I felt worth sharing. Apparently they do not have any images of the 1949 logo newly affixed. Why you wouldn't capture this on a model displaying it for the first time is a bit odd imo. But that's the official response from VW. |
Thanks for your answer. So for now, it seems, at WOB: no pics, no knowledge, no interest.
Imo, for now it seems, all the field watching knowledge here on samba still seems to be true.
Thinking towards your opinion, it seems, it´s still not prooved, that in late 49, there were gapped logos fixed originally on cars. Was there something said, how many suppliers for logos VW had, in 1949?
I think, the VW info you got is interesting for all samba readers here.
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VWdilemma
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| Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2025 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: Barndoor VW logo pod |
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strong whiff of troll here... 
if you haven't any correspondence to show then it appears your bluff has been called. |
Sure looks like it. Joined last month, no pictures or useful contributions, now telling us all how it is without presenting any evidence. |
You don’t agree with me so I’m a troll? Wow. Don’t really know what to say to these comments, other than I’m surprised you haven’t reflected and deleted them already. It’s kinda pathetic and says way more about you than me.
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| I’m certainly not the one who needs to prove a ‘theory’. |
Well seeing as pretty much everyone else is in agreement that the badges without a gap are genuine, then perhaps you do. |
I’m not going to keep repeating myself. If you can’t extract the logic from my previous comments, and don’t understand the hierarchy principles associated with testing a theory, then I guess just figure it out on your own? I’ll give you a couple of hints though - it doesn’t start and finish at assumptions made based on limited evidence. And a consensus of five or six people on a forum with a strong incentive to believe the theory doesn’t sit at the apex of that hierarchy.
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Just post the badges on your collection of split beetles, Barndoor deluxes, or even your NOS collection VWdilemma. Put the haters to shame 
I also agree with you that there was very little discussion of this subject on line a few decades ago before most people started using the internet. |
Agreed, the web has opened up more opportunities to engage with different theories. But I’ve also searched through many books published pre and post-2000 that specifically address each VW model, and I’ve never seen this emblem difference discussed or mentioned. It’s a pretty big difference imo. One that should have generated a lot of interest and discussion prior to 2000. Even this forum has been up since around then but the earliest mention is 2005.
I know that dealers like this one … https://www.vwperformance.com.au/product/Spare-Wheel-Cover-with-Logo-14-T2-Kombi… sell connected covers because they don’t have the rights to do otherwise. And I’m sure everyone here is aware how aggressively VW goes after copyright infringers. So I’m simply adding data points to the official word from VW and arriving at a logical conclusion. I mean, who’s to say the Beastie Boy craze in the 80’s didn’t spawn a whole lot of reproductions entering the mix? Having said everything that I’ve said, I’m not completely dismissive of the idea that VW either doesn’t have the concrete evidence to support their position definitively, and are possibly too embarrassed to admit that. Or that they’re maybe deliberately hiding this part of their history for whatever reason. But there’s just no real evidence or motivation that I can gather for such speculation.
But as I mentioned previously, I’m keen to hear from anyone who’s actually got some concrete evidence (other than more images of connected badges). Even genuine first hand anecdotal evidence I would fine interesting. The photo of Reimspiess with a large sketch of the connected logo is interesting. But without context, it’s just that. He looks around seventy plus years old which would make that circa 1970. So obviously years after the alleged connected logo theory. And it contradicts his logo design in the first place. It also needs to be adequately explained why VW would ever do this when they had the official gapped logo plastered nearly everywhere else in and around the beetle, even prior to ’49 (i.e. gear stick, speedometer, dash, pedals, hub caps, etc). Simply makes no sense. Other than perhaps an error, as suggested. But again, that’s another theory that needs proving on its own.
And yeah, haters be haters lol. But I won’t be posting my correspondence with VW as evidence for a few reasons; firstly, what difference would it make to the people here who assume to know better anyway? Secondly, my personal details are displayed. Which I suppose I could go to the trouble of redacting them, but that would be going to more trouble than I’m willing to. Especially when it’s so easy for anyone else to contact VW and ask basic questions. I will however post the contact page and email address for those seemingly incapable of using a keyboard beyond this forum:
https://www.volkswagen.de/de/besitzer-und-service/ueber-ihr-auto/hilfe-und-dialogcenter.html
[email protected]
If you’re not proficient in German, or can’t use the internet competently to translate German, then contact your countries English speaking counterpart. |
I think, there is no need to be too serious about that question or "problem".
Maybe in the book "Kleiner Wagen auf grosser Fahrt" 1949, there can be a pic of the earliest post war VW beetle hood emblems. Here I can say, my 9´49 and 3´50 splits which I have since 1970 and 1984, both have the old-style, no-gapped logos. My 7´50 split already has the newer gapped edition. All cars with original hoods, undamaged, unrestored. It´s known, at least in later years, VW had some different supplier for emblems, such as: a) "Lauer", Nuernberg, b) K.S.P., c) PuC about the same time. Who knows, when the first no-gapped "repro-emblems" appeared on market? My 49 was barn-stored in 1974 and when I got him in 1984, the un-gapped logo was present. For me, there is positivly no doubt, this version is original, probably till mid 1950. In 10´52 the beetle got a new style "unsolid" VW-emblem which was not used for busses, as far as I know. So I think it´s quite possible, that there were some left over parts, or even a new series of gapped or un-gapped were ordered.
Thinking about wheel caps since around May 1949 with the small logo. This logo has about the same size as the hood emblem. For the pressing process of the caps, a gap makes technical sense and is necessary for the rounded wheel caps, but not necessary for flat hood or dash emblems. My 9´49 has 3 original wheel caps (with only one hole), but of course, all have gaps on the caps. |
If you replace ‘serious’ for ‘curious’ , then you describe my sentiment accurately here. And thank you for the genuine information - especially the outsourced emblem supplier names. Appreciate you responding seriously. I have sent a request to VW to ask if they have photos that can confirm the gapped logo was affixed in 1949, as per their inferred claim. Being the first model to carry this on the hood, you would expect so. I will let know how they respond. |
Hello VW dilemma, more than 3 months are over now. Still no response? |
No, there was a response. But not a satisfying one I felt worth sharing. Apparently they do not have any images of the 1949 logo newly affixed. Why you wouldn't capture this on a model displaying it for the first time is a bit odd imo. But that's the official response from VW. |
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wagen19
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| Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:56 pm Post subject: Re: Barndoor VW logo pod |
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strong whiff of troll here...
if you haven't any correspondence to show then it appears your bluff has been called. |
Sure looks like it. Joined last month, no pictures or useful contributions, now telling us all how it is without presenting any evidence. |
You don’t agree with me so I’m a troll? Wow. Don’t really know what to say to these comments, other than I’m surprised you haven’t reflected and deleted them already. It’s kinda pathetic and says way more about you than me.
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| I’m certainly not the one who needs to prove a ‘theory’. |
Well seeing as pretty much everyone else is in agreement that the badges without a gap are genuine, then perhaps you do. |
I’m not going to keep repeating myself. If you can’t extract the logic from my previous comments, and don’t understand the hierarchy principles associated with testing a theory, then I guess just figure it out on your own? I’ll give you a couple of hints though - it doesn’t start and finish at assumptions made based on limited evidence. And a consensus of five or six people on a forum with a strong incentive to believe the theory doesn’t sit at the apex of that hierarchy.
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Just post the badges on your collection of split beetles, Barndoor deluxes, or even your NOS collection VWdilemma. Put the haters to shame
I also agree with you that there was very little discussion of this subject on line a few decades ago before most people started using the internet. |
Agreed, the web has opened up more opportunities to engage with different theories. But I’ve also searched through many books published pre and post-2000 that specifically address each VW model, and I’ve never seen this emblem difference discussed or mentioned. It’s a pretty big difference imo. One that should have generated a lot of interest and discussion prior to 2000. Even this forum has been up since around then but the earliest mention is 2005.
I know that dealers like this one … https://www.vwperformance.com.au/product/Spare-Wheel-Cover-with-Logo-14-T2-Kombi… sell connected covers because they don’t have the rights to do otherwise. And I’m sure everyone here is aware how aggressively VW goes after copyright infringers. So I’m simply adding data points to the official word from VW and arriving at a logical conclusion. I mean, who’s to say the Beastie Boy craze in the 80’s didn’t spawn a whole lot of reproductions entering the mix? Having said everything that I’ve said, I’m not completely dismissive of the idea that VW either doesn’t have the concrete evidence to support their position definitively, and are possibly too embarrassed to admit that. Or that they’re maybe deliberately hiding this part of their history for whatever reason. But there’s just no real evidence or motivation that I can gather for such speculation.
But as I mentioned previously, I’m keen to hear from anyone who’s actually got some concrete evidence (other than more images of connected badges). Even genuine first hand anecdotal evidence I would fine interesting. The photo of Reimspiess with a large sketch of the connected logo is interesting. But without context, it’s just that. He looks around seventy plus years old which would make that circa 1970. So obviously years after the alleged connected logo theory. And it contradicts his logo design in the first place. It also needs to be adequately explained why VW would ever do this when they had the official gapped logo plastered nearly everywhere else in and around the beetle, even prior to ’49 (i.e. gear stick, speedometer, dash, pedals, hub caps, etc). Simply makes no sense. Other than perhaps an error, as suggested. But again, that’s another theory that needs proving on its own.
And yeah, haters be haters lol. But I won’t be posting my correspondence with VW as evidence for a few reasons; firstly, what difference would it make to the people here who assume to know better anyway? Secondly, my personal details are displayed. Which I suppose I could go to the trouble of redacting them, but that would be going to more trouble than I’m willing to. Especially when it’s so easy for anyone else to contact VW and ask basic questions. I will however post the contact page and email address for those seemingly incapable of using a keyboard beyond this forum:
https://www.volkswagen.de/de/besitzer-und-service/ueber-ihr-auto/hilfe-und-dialogcenter.html
[email protected]
If you’re not proficient in German, or can’t use the internet competently to translate German, then contact your countries English speaking counterpart. |
I think, there is no need to be too serious about that question or "problem".
Maybe in the book "Kleiner Wagen auf grosser Fahrt" 1949, there can be a pic of the earliest post war VW beetle hood emblems. Here I can say, my 9´49 and 3´50 splits which I have since 1970 and 1984, both have the old-style, no-gapped logos. My 7´50 split already has the newer gapped edition. All cars with original hoods, undamaged, unrestored. It´s known, at least in later years, VW had some different supplier for emblems, such as: a) "Lauer", Nuernberg, b) K.S.P., c) PuC about the same time. Who knows, when the first no-gapped "repro-emblems" appeared on market? My 49 was barn-stored in 1974 and when I got him in 1984, the un-gapped logo was present. For me, there is positivly no doubt, this version is original, probably till mid 1950. In 10´52 the beetle got a new style "unsolid" VW-emblem which was not used for busses, as far as I know. So I think it´s quite possible, that there were some left over parts, or even a new series of gapped or un-gapped were ordered.
Thinking about wheel caps since around May 1949 with the small logo. This logo has about the same size as the hood emblem. For the pressing process of the caps, a gap makes technical sense and is necessary for the rounded wheel caps, but not necessary for flat hood or dash emblems. My 9´49 has 3 original wheel caps (with only one hole), but of course, all have gaps on the caps. |
If you replace ‘serious’ for ‘curious’ , then you describe my sentiment accurately here. And thank you for the genuine information - especially the outsourced emblem supplier names. Appreciate you responding seriously. I have sent a request to VW to ask if they have photos that can confirm the gapped logo was affixed in 1949, as per their inferred claim. Being the first model to carry this on the hood, you would expect so. I will let know how they respond. |
Hello VW dilemma, more than 3 months are over now. Still no response? |
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busben
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2024 9:10 am Post subject: Re: Barndoor VW logo pod |
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| Making me miss my ‘51 standard with the early style Dash dude …. |
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