Reversed image to sell buses

Red Fau Veh · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 8:30 am Post subject: Reversed image to sell buses

Would VW have reversed the image in this ad to sell buses to the British? I looked at the pic thinking it is a cool high hinge right hand drive bus, but, the letters on the bags of goods are all reversed. So my guess is that the negative was reversed to make the bus look like a right hand drive with doors on the left side. Very Happy

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easy e · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 8:58 am Post subject: Cargo door hinge covers

Looks like it.... all I see is reversed text.
Decent shot of some cargo door hinge covers.

ateneo · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 9:20 am Post subject:

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Red Fau Veh · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 9:23 am Post subject:

Oh well I guess vw did not reverse that pic. Looks good either way though!
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1969 Adventurewagen blue whale Gene Berg 1776 built by Dave Kawell dual 36 DRLA's, Vintage Speed exhaust, Bosch 019 screamer
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M183kombi · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 9:24 am Post subject:

I think so as well...if it were a double door, the cargo door outer handle would be on the back door?
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easy e · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 9:34 am Post subject:

esde · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 9:49 am Post subject:

So why do the wipers park on different sides in each picture?

easy e · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 9:53 am Post subject:

Lind · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:18 am Post subject:

are those dove grey caps on a SWR bus?

perhaps sales literature showing us another example what stock never was.
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mandraks · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:47 am Post subject:

maybe it is a primered panel that somebody painted red?
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I date this bus being a 60. High hinge covers.

73sports · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 12:13 pm Post subject:

Left hand gas door? Reversed image for sure, but was it done on purpose or not is the real question.
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hitest · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 12:42 pm Post subject:

Common practice of everyone trying to sell products to the British market- remember the Tarryton Cigarette ads? The black eye was always on the right one, too. It obviously didn't work out so well for "tserC" toothpaste however...
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Who.Me? · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 4:44 pm Post subject:

It's still done today in the UK.

Loads of car commercials are filmed with LHD vehicles and flipped in post production to look like they're RHD.

The giveaway is that the number plate is readable in mirror image like 101XMX and sometimes you can see the badge is reversed if it's in HD.

Abscate · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 5:18 pm Post subject:

The VW logo in the lower corner is clearly reversed.
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MrPolak · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 6:00 pm Post subject:

This is clearly nefarious on part of VW. Someone should write to them and have them apologize.

Here's evidence of more photoshopping from 1962 and 1963. They were ahead of their time.

OG67westy · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2014 6:17 pm Post subject:

it is common practice to flip images for layout purposes. It usually looks better if the car, or person, or whatever, is looking "into" the literature rather than "out"...that is, towards the spine, rather than the edge of the page...
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