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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:50 am    Post subject: What year is this Cab? Reply with quote

Looking through pictures from when my parents were in Europe in 1956. No real idea as to what year this Cab is or where other than Germany or Austria.
I can see and make out the low rear lights, but no clue otherwise as to year. Now I wish my parents had gotten a bit closer, or had had a better camera.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:19 am    Post subject: Re: What year is this Cab? Reply with quote

the location is mauthausen concentration camp in austria
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the cabrio appears to be a polizei (or gendarmerie) vehicle and I think I can see a popes nose on the decklid...so split era car?
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 12:38 pm    Post subject: Re: What year is this Cab? Reply with quote

finster wrote:
the location is mauthausen concentration camp in austria
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the cabrio appears to be a polizei (or gendarmerie) vehicle and I think I can see a popes nose on the decklid...so split era car?

Thank you, As stated had no idea. Even more so that a Polizei would use a Cab back then. I had seen Type 1 and Type 2 Polizei in later pictures, but never a Cabrio.
Thank again, you have added to my knowledge of my parents excursion in 56.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:09 pm    Post subject: Re: What year is this Cab? Reply with quote

oh the polizei loved the cabrios...even had special four door versions

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watch them in action...
https://www.facebook.com/100007507720697/videos/2756161957977368/
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