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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:12 pm    Post subject: Vintage photos Reply with quote

So the split window forum and the oval window forum both have a thread for vintage photos.

How come WE don't? After all a 67 is 44 years old now!

Anybody want to start it off?

Maybe keep in mind they should be VINTAGE photos from when our cars were new or next to new. NOT from last week or last year.

25 years ago or more.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I can never get enough of vintage racing photos!
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is another at Bonneville

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:44 pm    Post subject: 1959 beetle Reply with quote

This is a pic of my first beetle, a 1959. The photo was taken in 1972 and no, I am not really towing the wagon behind. This was at a summer camp where I was working.[img]
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:08 pm    Post subject: 1967 beetle Reply with quote

This is a photo of my second beetle, a 1967. This was taken after a $29.95 Earl Scheib paint job. I was living in Windsor, Ontario Canada and drove the car over to Detroit MI and actually waited for the car to be painted. They did a quick wash and then 2 women masked the car and then it was painted. Then it was "baked" for 20 minutes or so. Total time was less than 3 hours. I added some stripes and it looked pretty good. This was 1974.[img]
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My first one, a '70 circa 1985
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's a few more. The red one was also my parents, I believe a '59. The other's were shot at my parent's house, not sure of the year...
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That's me in my nana's lap..
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Here's a few more. The red one was also my parents, I believe a '59. The other's were shot at my parent's house, not sure of the year...
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Thats one long antenna on the red one haha nice cars btw
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My grandfather's car lot in the late 50's
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Vintage photos Reply with quote

drscope wrote:
So the split window forum and the oval window forum both have a thread for vintage photos.

How come WE don't?






There also is another great vintage photos thead ongoing here------------> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=352121

check it out!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thats one long antenna on the red one haha nice cars btw


All of mine would be that long if I pulled them all the way out. I just push each section in about half way to make the antennae more proportionate and not so much of a "whip"
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Here's an odd license plate on a 1959 "European" car ~ a license plate that is rather hard to obtain, while most were destroyed after their service had expired etc.

*CD* = Corps Diplomatique marked on a vehicle that diplomatic personnel in a foreign country use to drive around with.
I would suspect that these are American, French or maybe even British subjects working in Germany?

I would also expect that the country sign mounted on the rear right side of the car on a bracket from the bumper also has the two letters CD on it as well.
(they are for license plate collectors a very sought after item)
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Here's an old slide I found from an Ex-GI who bought this 1960 Artic Blue car "brand new" in 1960
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 9:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is my cousin's girlfriend's dad when he was stationed in Germany.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I can never get enough of vintage racing photos!


Wesley, you have any information on this photo? I can't for the life of me figure out why these cars seem to be racing around the outter edges of a parking lot.

It's very strange that they would be running this close to paked cars with no barrier between them.

Really cool photo!
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I can never get enough of vintage racing photos!


Wesley, you have any information on this photo? I can't for the life of me figure out why these cars seem to be racing around the outter edges of a parking lot.

It's very strange that they would be running this close to paked cars with no barrier between them.

Really cool photo!


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I dont have any info but it looks to me to be the LeMans start

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFIfHI6OUPw

Jump up to 1:40 to see it
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here I am circa 1975 sitting on the 61SNRF. hadn't had it too long, it still has the temp registration in the window. Had to sell the '49 Chevy to finance to Bug...
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WesleyGarrard wrote:
This is my cousin's girlfriend's dad when he was stationed in Germany.

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Kool US Army in Germany base photo.......was this Warner Kaserne in Munich? (outside MP station?)

Diggin that NSU Sport TT in the background, they were stupid fast little cars back in their day!
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