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finster
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 Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 1:19 am Post subject: Re: '50 11G prototype? |
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looks to me like the front window glass has had a corner cut off, but straight not curved, like the factory introduced for better airflow.
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Meiang
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:36 am Post subject: Re: '50 11G prototype? |
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Here is my bush bashing kombi (circa 1979) with the rear wheel arches cut away to fit very wide paddle tyres for beach use.
The Gorgosaurus was hand painted on both sides by my brother.
It could go anywhere off road. (well it seemed to).
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ZENVWDRIVER
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Location: N.E. Oklahoma
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:03 am Post subject: Re: '50 11G prototype? |
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| Meiang wrote: |
Here is my bush bashing kombi (circa 1979) with the rear wheel arches cut away to fit very wide paddle tyres for beach use.
The Gorgosaurus was hand painted on both sides by my brother.
It could go anywhere off road. (well it seemed to).
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cool bus - only thing, I see no screens on the windows don't mosquitos fly in the open windows, during the night?
One of the best vehicles for off- road that can go anywhere is a Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser
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Meiang
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:36 am Post subject: Re: '50 11G prototype? |
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I worked for Mt Newman Mining Company at the time the photo was taken and they used Toyota FJ40's almost exclusively in a number of configurations for the whole minesite.
Here is our crew infront of a crew cab utility.
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ZENVWDRIVER
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 2:39 pm Post subject: Re: '50 11G prototype? |
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| Meiang wrote: |
I worked for Mt Newman Mining Company at the time the photo was taken and they used Toyota FJ40's almost exclusively in a number of configurations for the whole minesite.
Here is our crew infront of a crew cab utility.
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… great picture - my brother bought a new 1971 FJ40 and sold it to me, in 1999, I kept it till 2015 and sold it to another brother... he is making it all-pretty, by restoring it - I liked it all rusty - had 55,000 original miles on it - both 'a mine were likea' robins-egg blue - still have the front seat belts, from it, in our '62 VW SO33... had crotch-coolers too...
… when we lived in upstate NY, ona private gravel road, in the woods, we had a 1969 TLC with a plow - that thing was un stoppable - AS YOU KNOW -thanks for this wonderful deviation, from VWs - like FJ40s about as much.
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5/50, pastel green 11G - SOLD
8/50, gray 11A Beetle
6/52, pastel green 11C - SOLD
11/4/52, black Zwitter - SOLD to my little bro.
1954 Porsche, pre A, with VW 36 horse- SOLD
1/54, black 11C Beetle - TRADED
2/55 Iceland green Beetle, on a 1965 pan
3/55 113 Beetle, stratos silver
1955 Messerschmitt KR175 - SOLD, sadly
1960 single cab
1962 SO33, with SO 42 interior
9/63 Pacific blue, Ghia
'87 Toyota MR2
'02 WestFORDia E-150, GAVE TO OUR SON
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Wolfgang1
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:23 am Post subject: Re: '50 11G prototype? |
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Hello,
also interesting the other rims, seems to be the later 15".
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Wolfgang
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… once asked VW GMBH for a picture of a 1950 11G with my Birth Certificare - back in the days, when all that was free - here's the 11G picture they sent in 1976 - a prototype with rear vent window?
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