VW38 found in Lithuania

s.e.charles · Samba Member Joined: March 26, 2015 Posts: 238

i'm bummed . . . i found it, signed up for $5 coupon, went back, it be gone.

in any event, thanks for the assist!

52 split · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

here you go se charles https://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?&inv...v03vHgBCI. one copy

KTPhil · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:31 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

I thought of this segment from "Sleeper" when I saw the car built up from the few remaining original pieces!

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But seeing it done and the integrity behind it, I retract my ridicule Wink

ryans65 · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:22 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

I remember this unfolding in real time, hard to believe it's been over 15 years now. I wonder what else is out there still to be discovered?!

finster · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:16 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

can't believe some of the prices asked online for this title Shocked

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s.e.charles · Samba Member Joined: March 26, 2015 Posts: 238

thanks. i'll be more hypervigilant this time around!

Undis · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

Not aware of it being re-published. However, I have heard the that the same publisher is planning a book on the 1937 W30/26.
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s.e.charles · Samba Member Joined: March 26, 2015 Posts: 238

did the Book ever go into a second printing?

thx

Stetoppingphoto · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:17 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

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I took this back in 2017, tucked up nicely in the Grundmans collection Smile

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Undis · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:32 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

The car is safely tucked away in the museum at Hessisch Oldendorf. The team is busy building its recreation of W30/26.

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webberjames95 · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

Any updates on the 38 since 2016? Just watched a cool flo YouTube video where it was parked in a museum but that was uploaded in 2020. Any updates?
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allsidius · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 1:52 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

Axel's book is fantastic, but it does not tell the whole story of the resurrection. This thread has so much more information, great pics (a lot are lost now) and discussion. I have both the German and the English version, but I feel that a book for instance showing all the cool pics of the car in the backyard in Lithuania, all the changes made, how they sourced all those incredibly rare parts, etc.

For instance..
Who on earth has a set of prototype Bosch 1938 headlights? Christian managed to source a perfect set in satin matt chrome. They have the adjustment screws in a different place compared to the serial production kdf-wagens that came in 1940. Were these made specifically for the beetle, or were they a generic design that happened to pop up in the nick of time for the VW38 series? Were the VW39 headlights the same?

I feel there is so much more that could be put down on paper, while we still have it. (Books, that is)
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allsidius · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:32 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

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splitjunkie · Samba Member Joined: April 04, 2006 Posts: 4091

My favorite posts were from the people who said it looked like an ordinary Super Beetle.
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allsidius · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:35 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

This thread is by far the most important historically on TheSamba so far, and it is hard to imagine anyone topping it. (Unless a real W30 is found in a barn)

Not only does it document an extraordinary restoration that far outshines VAGs own VW38/03, but it takes us back to the choices and designs as they happened in the Porsche and other workshops back in 1938. Moreover, the choices in some cases had to be done again by the restoration team, 70 years later.

It is my sincere wish that this thread could be preserved, with pictures restored, into a 600-page printed book for total VW nerds, carefully edited to remove double postings, irrelevant stuff, but keeping the colorful language and petty quarrels that arose when we all had our daily fix, checking the thread and the lates pics against Chris Barbers book and other historical material.

I, for one, would gladly cough up the cash for such a book!
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scottyrocks · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania

I joined The Samba on a recommendation from my local Volkswagen club, which I also just joined.

I have been a VW fan for almost half a century, but I have never owned one. My Dad had a '71 back in the mid to late '70s, but it went elsewhere when he was done with it. I am currently on the hunt to find and purchase the right car for my needs and budget. Ideally, this would be a pre-'68, although the right '68 to '71 would be considered.

As I do in most forums I join, I read most threads from start to finish, beginning at the top.

As it happened, the VW38-06 thread was at the top. Over the course of a couple of weeks of reading the 227 pages in my spare time, I have come to the current end of the thread.

All I can say is wow. I've seen restoration processes before, but none like this. I followed this thread like I would watch a baby being born, or a damaged animal being rescued and then rehabilitated. The whole thing was actually very emotional for me. My hat is off to the restoration team.

The only thing that bothered me is, because of the late date at which I discovered this thread, that shortly after the vintage floor pan was first shown, the pictures that Christian posted, and many pictures by others, were unavailable. I would have loved to have seen all those photos during the restoration process.

Many thanks to Undis who reposted what I suppose are almost all the photos that were no longer available in the previous pages of the thread. I breathed a sigh of relief as I began to look through them. I had many, 'Ah, so that's how it was done!' moments.

And there not a single angle in which this car's lines are not breathtakingly beautiful.


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