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Patiently Impatient Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:32 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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AS350driver wrote: |
White Sands, NM 1965
From the excellent FB page, Zephyr America: A Lens on the Past
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AS350driver Samba Member
Joined: April 17, 2016 Posts: 1060 Location: Tucson
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 1:07 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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White Sands, NM 1965
From the excellent FB page, Zephyr America: A Lens on the Past
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mandraks Samba Member

Joined: November 28, 2004 Posts: 6041 Location: Lawrenceville, Ga
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 7:04 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Fish wrote: |
1974 La Jolla, California.
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look at that little rebel hopping barefoot from chewing gum to cigarette butt in his red pants.  _________________ regards
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Fish Samba Member

Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 4359 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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Fish Samba Member

Joined: December 05, 2000 Posts: 4359 Location: OB. It's beside the point.
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 7:40 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Paul McCartney in a home movie.
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EverettB  Administrator

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mandraks Samba Member

Joined: November 28, 2004 Posts: 6041 Location: Lawrenceville, Ga
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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what's up? _________________ regards
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Who.Me? Samba Member

Joined: July 14, 2014 Posts: 1454 Location: UK (South)
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srfndoc Samba Member

Joined: August 21, 2010 Posts: 3042 Location: SoCal
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:33 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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EverettB wrote: |
From the Cats thread
emersonbiggins wrote: |
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Weird Bus, I think it's not a Bus but something made to look like one.
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Definitely looks like one of those East German copies or a Thai replica. That cat has some balls of steel. _________________ Evan's Spreadsheet for Bus RPM, based on gearing & tire size (ODS Format)
RPM=(MPH*336* (R&P*4th*1.26))/Tire Diameter in inches
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Blue Baron Samba Member

Joined: June 16, 2006 Posts: 14283 Location: Southeast USA
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Pictures to follow because no one reads words anyways. |
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Blue Baron Samba Member

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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Pictures to follow because no one reads words anyways. |
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EverettB  Administrator

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mandraks Samba Member

Joined: November 28, 2004 Posts: 6041 Location: Lawrenceville, Ga
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:42 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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I would imagine that it was just a ploy to make there ride look a bit newer. There are stories about car dealers cutting the divider out of a split window bug and making it in to an oval window bug just for that very purpose. |
there are pictures of piles of split and oval cutouts for conversion to the big window in 58 _________________ regards
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peecee69  Samba Member

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Blue Baron Samba Member

Joined: June 16, 2006 Posts: 14283 Location: Southeast USA
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 1:14 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Busted-bolt Samba Member
Joined: April 14, 2018 Posts: 394 Location: minnesoota
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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I would imagine that it was just a ploy to make there ride look a bit newer. There are stories about car dealers cutting the divider out of a split window bug and making it in to an oval window bug just for that very purpose. _________________ I seldom meet a rusted fastener i did not like. VW collection 60 black three finger apron beetle, 61 grey commercial (og patina for now),62 bgr sr samba(next project. 60 zombi kombi walk through. I do all my own work,body,engine and transmission. |
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mandraks Samba Member

Joined: November 28, 2004 Posts: 6041 Location: Lawrenceville, Ga
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:15 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Riff Raff wrote: |
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Note the updated tail lights on the oval rag as well.
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Hard to see, but it looks like they also disappeared the semaphores. _________________ regards
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Riff Raff Shivering Sambian

Joined: October 25, 2004 Posts: 2982 Location: Alberta
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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 8:49 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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Note the updated tail lights on the oval rag as well.
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Bus with rack in the background
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mandraks Samba Member

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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:25 am Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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^^^
i do like those south american bumper overriders for the pressed bumpers. _________________ regards
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Blue Baron Samba Member

Joined: June 16, 2006 Posts: 14283 Location: Southeast USA
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Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 11:27 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage Splitty Photos |
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