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RUNKLE
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RUNKLE
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RUNKLE
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RUNKLE
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finster
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2025 4:30 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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place de l'opera paris 1955 - colourised by ai photo but I think it's really a modified kubel
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finster
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 6:54 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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driver wears the 'pig' badge of british 30 corps based at nienburg and later luneburg barracks until being disbanded in nov 46
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RUNKLE
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 8:21 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Bd des Capucines & Pl. de l'Opéra, Paris, Île-de-France.
Photo was taken in 1953 by Jack Garofalo, and is part of a series covering the General Strike that paralyzed France for several weeks, bringing all public services to a standstill in August of that year.
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place de l'opera paris 1955 - colourised by ai photo but I think it's really a modified kubel
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wagen19
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 9:10 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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driver wears the 'pig' badge of british 30 corps based at nienburg and later luneburg barracks until being disbanded in nov 46
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Bright color of seat frames, wich models, since when, how long?
Round bracket for seat, when?
Steering wheel, where does it come from?
Car looks not as type 82 e or type 51.
Are there some original painted "soviet brown" body parts of 1946 beetles out there? (June, July 1946) |
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peter schepens
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 12:54 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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driver wears the 'pig' badge of british 30 corps based at nienburg and later luneburg barracks until being disbanded in nov 46
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Bright color of seat frames, wich models, since when, how long?
Round bracket for seat, when?
Steering wheel, where does it come from?
Car looks not as type 82 e or type 51.
Are there some original painted "soviet brown" body parts of 1946 beetles out there? (June, July 1946) |
Steering wheel is the same model as used on the Kol Radclyffe roadster.
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wagen19
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| Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 9:55 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| finster wrote: |
driver wears the 'pig' badge of british 30 corps based at nienburg and later luneburg barracks until being disbanded in nov 46
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Bright color of seat frames, wich models, since when, how long?
Round bracket for seat, when?
Steering wheel, where does it come from?
Car looks not as type 82 e or type 51.
Are there some original painted "soviet brown" body parts of 1946 beetles out there? (June, July 1946) |
Steering wheel is the same model as used on the Kol Radclyffe roadster. |
Can that model of steering wheel be the same, or similar as seen on a type 128?
Are these "special" parts individual made, or from different type of car?
Since when were the steering wheels from Petri, Aschaffenburg? |
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peter schepens
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:38 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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| finster wrote: |
driver wears the 'pig' badge of british 30 corps based at nienburg and later luneburg barracks until being disbanded in nov 46
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Bright color of seat frames, wich models, since when, how long?
Round bracket for seat, when?
Steering wheel, where does it come from?
Car looks not as type 82 e or type 51.
Are there some original painted "soviet brown" body parts of 1946 beetles out there? (June, July 1946) |
Steering wheel is the same model as used on the Kol Radclyffe roadster. |
Can that model of steering wheel be the same, or similar as seen on a type 128?
Are these "special" parts individual made, or from different type of car?
Since when were the steering wheels from Petri, Aschaffenburg? |
Yes it does, but on the 128 type, it has a system with bigger ring to tilt the wheel to get better acces to the driverseat .
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RUNKLE
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 8:08 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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The Kol Radclyffe roadster with the steering wheel in question… looks the same as the image finster posted.
Edit: For clarification.
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finster
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:43 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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type 128 steering wheel looks more like a banjo style wheel
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Rome
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| Radclyffe steering wheel has a much larger center hub outboard of the center horn button than in the British 30 corps' Beetle. It extends well beyond the plane where the banjo (?) spokes go across. Radclyffe wheel looks more like the one in the Type 128. Also, I don't see a "spreader bar" on the banjo spokes on the 30 corps' car. |
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mandraks
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 6:33 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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Getting ready to put a tiger in his tank? |
or a lion in his beetle? there we tiger tanks, though. And Esso, of course
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2025 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos... |
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this car was brought to the uk by the actor James Robertson Justice
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wochenend und sonnenschein... 
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