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fossil Samba Member
Joined: November 22, 2011 Posts: 36 Location: Germany
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Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:11 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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Undis wrote: |
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. |
https://shop.delius-klasing.de/der-erste-kaefer-p-2001943/
I have just preordered my copy. _________________ Greetings from Germany
Thorsten |
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s.e.charles Samba Member
Joined: March 26, 2015 Posts: 238
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:49 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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i'm bummed . . . i found it, signed up for $5 coupon, went back, it be gone.
in any event, thanks for the assist! |
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52 split Samba Member
Joined: December 19, 2007 Posts: 150 Location: the best island in the world, vancouver island
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KTPhil Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2006 Posts: 33991 Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:31 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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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 |
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ryans65 Samba Member
Joined: February 16, 2016 Posts: 1259 Location: Yulee FL
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:22 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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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?! |
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finster Samba Member
Joined: May 26, 2012 Posts: 7934 Location: north o' the border
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:16 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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can't believe some of the prices asked online for this title _________________ "we're here on Earth to fart around" kurt vonnegut
nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect... |
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s.e.charles Samba Member
Joined: March 26, 2015 Posts: 238
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:39 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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thanks. i'll be more hypervigilant this time around! |
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Undis Samba Member
Joined: October 24, 2006 Posts: 1396 Location: Riga, Latvia & Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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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. _________________ Check out my Facebook page: Volkswagen Prototypes. |
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s.e.charles Samba Member
Joined: March 26, 2015 Posts: 238
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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did the Book ever go into a second printing?
thx |
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Stetoppingphoto Samba Member
Joined: February 15, 2012 Posts: 475 Location: Darwen
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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 _________________ stetoppingphoto |
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Undis Samba Member
Joined: October 24, 2006 Posts: 1396 Location: Riga, Latvia & Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:32 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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The car is safely tucked away in the museum at Hessisch Oldendorf. The team is busy building its recreation of W30/26.
_________________ Check out my Facebook page: Volkswagen Prototypes. |
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webberjames95 Snorkelstang Finder
Joined: January 18, 2011 Posts: 1091 Location: Pullman, Washington
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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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? _________________ 1967 Bug:
Olga: the Cal look car lost in the PNW SOLD
1984 Vanagon:
Berty the Vanagon
1973 Bus
Amber the Bus Sold
INSTAGRAM @jwebber95 |
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allsidius Samba Member
Joined: February 02, 2010 Posts: 1475 Location: Norway
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 1:52 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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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) _________________ 1973 1303S w sunroof Click to view image
1978 1303 convertible (sold)Click to view image
1966 1300 RIPClick to view image
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Grant Reiling Samba Slow-Change Artist
Joined: November 28, 2003 Posts: 491 Location: behind the wheel
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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igtoth wrote: |
SyncroGhia wrote: |
Ordered
Here's hoping that the website has it correct and that the English version is on it's way to me
MG |
Look at page 100 |
...Yeah, I thought of German emigration too, but my true home is right here.
Nice images (& book too by the way Axel et al) - well worth the price IMO. |
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igtoth Samba Member
Joined: May 09, 2006 Posts: 385 Location: Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 6:59 am Post subject: |
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SyncroGhia wrote: |
Ordered
Here's hoping that the website has it correct and that the English version is on it's way to me
MG |
Look at page 100 _________________ 1957 Typ 113 - Polarsilver
1959 Typ 113 - Flint Grey
1975 Typ 221 - Last yr Brazilian Split Window
Ighor Toth |
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79SuperVert Samba Member
Joined: May 31, 2002 Posts: 9758 Location: Elizabeth, NJ & La Isla Del Encanto
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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allsidius wrote: |
I, for one, would gladly cough up the cash for such a book! |
I would, too. Even though I'm retired now and have to watch my pennies. _________________ Central Jersey VW Society
Wanted: Art Collins VW (Savannah, Georgia) items - license plate surrounds and other items. Also ivory "AM", "FM" and "SW" buttons for a US Blaupunkt Frankfurt. |
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allsidius Samba Member
Joined: February 02, 2010 Posts: 1475 Location: Norway
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splitjunkie Samba Member
Joined: April 04, 2006 Posts: 4091
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 4:34 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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My favorite posts were from the people who said it looked like an ordinary Super Beetle. _________________ Chris
You know, a lot of these scratches will buff right out... Jerry Seinfeld |
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allsidius Samba Member
Joined: February 02, 2010 Posts: 1475 Location: Norway
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:35 am Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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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! _________________ 1973 1303S w sunroof Click to view image
1978 1303 convertible (sold)Click to view image
1966 1300 RIPClick to view image
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scottyrocks Samba Member
Joined: August 19, 2016 Posts: 2660 Location: Long Island, NY
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: VW38 found in Lithuania |
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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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