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Title: Matte finishes - I remember now!
Post by: Stig / Major Tom on March 24, 2022, 08:29:53 PM
VW used to spray their cars with a waxy protectorate for their ocean crossings.
I knew I'd seen matte finishes before - just couldn't remember.

 (https://i.postimg.cc/76SWR7Qh/vw.webp)

Stig
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Post by: rjs987 on March 24, 2022, 10:44:02 PM
Definitely dating yourself. I would not have admitted to that.
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Post by: souzamoto on March 25, 2022, 04:24:52 PM
Cosmoline
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Post by: Iahawk on March 25, 2022, 05:31:55 PM
cool photo...can any VW experts date it?

I'm putting it between '61 and '72 as the Karmann Ghia grille changed for '61 and the bumpers were different in '72... other than that?..all those Beetles look alike to me!
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Post by: big blue on March 25, 2022, 05:49:34 PM
I'm guessing '68-'72 era due to the more substantial "crash bumpers".
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Post by: randyo on March 25, 2022, 07:57:23 PM
Quote from: Iahawk on March 25, 2022, 05:31:55 PM
cool photo...can any VW experts date it?

I'm putting it between '61 and '72 as the Karmann Ghia grille changed for '61 and the bumpers were different in '72... other than that?..all those Beetles look alike to me!

68-71   there are no super beetles in the pic, 67 was last year of old bumpers, I could narrow it more it I could see an engine lid
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Post by: Stig / Major Tom on March 25, 2022, 10:24:05 PM
You last 3 guys are making me smile!
VW nuts, probably?
I had a new '71 Beetle, sadly a drunk hit me with only 60 miles on the odo!
I returned to  the dealer, Ralph D Jones' "VOLKSWAGEN VILLAGE" of Springfield Mass - for the repairs.

In 1973 I returned to Village VW and bought a new leaf green Super Beetle with tan interior. Lovely car! The Beetle with the big curved windscreen, big tail lights and nose pushed out to permit the spare to lay flat. It also had the new McPherson front suspension. That 'big' beetle was really cool inside - felt so much more spacious with that windscreen no longer against my nose!

Put 185K on that Super before purchasing a new Rabbit. The "C" model I think it was called. Very basic carpeting and door panels, bias ply tires - but otherwise identical mechanicals to the up-scale versions. Great car ! Fuel injected, more spacious, faster, quicker, better mileage, better in the snow. Real heater and defrosting! I put Continental radials on it and dropped a Blaupunkt in it and drove it for years!

Small world indeed~
Decades later - a toy collector friend of mine in Hamburg Germany - commissioned some 1/87th scale VW's from Brekina GmbH.
One of which was the delivery Kombi used by my same old dealer in Springfield, Mass! He used old photos from the VW archives in Germany. Brekina copied them pretty accurately.
(https://i.postimg.cc/hGGPSVqM/20220325-170315.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/j26r6jbL/20220325-170318.jpg)

Stig

(I collected these Brekina VW miniatures for a few years - stopped at fewer than @600. Brekina is still making them - you can find some on eBay)
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Post by: WEL on April 01, 2022, 04:47:45 PM
Love the lonely Karmann Ghia amongst the Beetles.