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ON this one, it sure looks like a pair of plastic sunvisors on the engine lid! I can't see a method of them being fastened so that they flip UP to act as a rain shield when parked.
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Those look like oval speaker grills to me. Even stranger. |
Maybe they are hacked in for double the vent cooling?
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I like the de-cambered rear and big pipes on this beetle
for sale tag in the window
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Jeferson Milão
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finster
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the parties who designed and signed-off the design of the Ford Prefect in front should have been shot! can't imagine anyone standing back and saying 'good work lads' when presented with that eyesore
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 12:26 am Post subject: Re: Cool vintage photos - Oval-Window Beetles |
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ON this one, it sure looks like a pair of plastic sunvisors on the engine lid! I can't see a method of them being fastened so that they flip UP to act as a rain shield when parked.
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Those look like oval speaker grills to me. Even stranger. |
That’s exactly what I was thinking, I agree strange.
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Riding in a kid's seat on the top tube. Mom's actually providing the motive power.
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Wohauuu... dude looks like a lady!!?!?!!!  
Like the over rider hoops and the tow hitch on the VW. TV, uh, not so much
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