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finster
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dec 43 schwimmer for sale on oldbug...$200,000
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B_vdd
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2025 2:30 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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| Martin Southwell wrote: |
That's unusual, the front of the vehicle, and therefore heaviest, being lifted to facilitate a good gradient for the car to come off. Would seem to work well, but I don't think I've seen this type of set up before.
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It's typical for Japan. I saw them un/loading a tractor like this on a bigger truck |
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Who.Me?
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 4:40 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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| Martin Southwell wrote: |
That's unusual, the front of the vehicle, and therefore heaviest, being lifted to facilitate a good gradient for the car to come off. Would seem to work well, but I don't think I've seen this type of set up before |
There are a few (lengthened) splitscreen single cabs with a similar setup used as classic race car haulers. Think one is Porsche-logoed. I guess it works, but always seems to me to be an unnecessarily risky approach. If I were building one, I'd use longer ramps, or add a lifting bed, like the splitscreen tippers. At least if the ram failed, only one vehicle would get wrecked.
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Looking for info on my truck's history. Are you from Campbell California or nearby. Do you recognise it? ... http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=636786 |
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finster
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 3:35 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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I only know that it is part of the flat 4 vw shop collection in honmoku
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Martin Southwell
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 1:50 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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That's unusual, the front of the vehicle, and therefore heaviest, being lifted to facilitate a good gradient for the car to come off. Would seem to work well, but I don't think I've seen this type of set up before.
Do we know the history of this car? |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2025 11:39 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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nice 46 at a recent show in japan, although that nearside banana is catching my eye...
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sinclair
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2025 6:03 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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| Love those Captured Vehicle markings. |
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finster
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2025 5:38 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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L21pearlgrey
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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kubel and a 46er at stanford hall show
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Fantastic show |
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finster
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2025 9:00 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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kubel and a 46er at stanford hall show
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 10:08 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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wheatcroft collection schwimmers
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 9:38 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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currently for sale in germany - 1941 kdf 60 project, ex hermann walter collection
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met an old friend today. I moved house to dorset last month and today I was just leaving lidl's car park and bemoaning the traffic when I spotted a familiar car in the vw dealership window. JLT420 is the 1947 beetle known as one of the first in the uk. here it is back in the late 40s at the colborne-baber garage.
in the heritage of dorchester showroom
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| Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:46 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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perfectly timed for our discussion on whether to restore cars or keep their post-war condition. the french barn find 'white shark' is now in the wheatcroft collection and, other than a clean, will not be restored
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=593410433086496
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2024 2:34 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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gulaschkanone of the 1er suppe gruppe 
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1948
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wagen19
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| Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2024 12:34 pm Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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Richard Hausmann's type 51
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but who knows more about the 12 maroon brown beetles, half gloss and parts for the Soviet Union delivered July 15th 1946 along 10 0020 examples of VW vehicles 1946 and further 30 beetles for the SMAD, Berlin in 1947? |
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Richard Hausmann's type 51
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| Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2024 8:14 am Post subject: Re: Present Day Photos of KDFs, Kubels and Schwimmers |
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Hi
Old french number plate registered 04/10/1954 in the Orne, a part of Normandie .
For the story, in 1973 I was looking for a starter for my 1965 VW bus at a junkyard in the suburbs of Strasbourg. I saw on a pile a car like a jeep with the back cut and you could see an gearbox like a beetle.
At this time I didn't know what is was... a schwimmwagen with also french number plate!  |
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Hi
Old french number plate registered 04/10/1954 in the Orne, a part of Normandie .
For the story, in 1973 I was looking for a starter for my 1965 VW bus at a junkyard in the suburbs of Strasbourg. I saw on a pile a car like a jeep with the back cut and you could see an gearbox like a beetle.
At this time I didn't know what is was... a schwimmwagen with also french number plate!
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