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mandraks
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i hope this picture was taken before the "blinker upgrade"...
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:25 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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Volswagon
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They should have made a "Herbie Goes to Germany" movie. Guten morgen!
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Blue Baron
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:45 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:35 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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Blue Baron
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René R.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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Berlin 1953:
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Blue Baron
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Blue Baron
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René R.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 8:32 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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Waikiki 1956:
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aa390392
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 8:45 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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don't text and drive.
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 10:40 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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Nice selection of Beetles and some other weird car?
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wcfvw69
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 11:30 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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don't text and drive. |
I don't know what kind of car that non-beetle is. However, the roof buckled and it looks like the steering wheel and column took a pretty good blow from the drivers body. Hope they survived.
Yikes.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 11:35 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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| that photo with the bad parking and goggomobil is the rear view of the last photo on the previous page (grossglockner pass?) |
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Randolph_Carter
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 12:25 pm Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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don't text and drive. |
I don't know what kind of car that non-beetle is. |
It's a Fiat 500 with strange lights. |
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