Imagery...

A delivery of new Volkswagens arrives in Sweden aboard Laes55 double-deck rail wagons of AB Skandia Transport, around 1960 or 1961.
You will notice that the wipers, hubcaps and exterior mirrors are not fitted to the cars. VWs being exported by ship from the factory in WOB had these items placed inside the cars for protection during the sea crossing.
Also, note that the cars are covered in Cosmoline, a protective wax coating applied at the factory. This gave the paintwork and chrome a matt appearance. This protective coating for the sea crossing was removed by the selling dealers during the pre-delivery inspection (PDI). You can see some of the Cosmoline has been cleared from the window glass, much like scraping frost in the winter.

schwim wrote:

17's on a bug just don't look right. it's always to much wheel and not enough sidewall. hell even a 15 looks stupid with a 125 tire or temps. (unless you're running smoothies, somehow that works)
Aussie trim varies from vehicle to vehicle.
and im burned out on safari windshields on bugs.

I know they're not nearly as prolific but it seems there's a lot of performance parts out their for the Corvairs. One of the YT channels I follow does quite a bit with the engines and it seems to be a pretty nice package for decent HP. Plus, a metric butt-ton more reliable than a Subi conversion.

im calling photoshop on that. but it does remind me when i was in middle school, across the street from the school was a lowered black baja. i always thought, wtf is the point, but it did look cool so... :?

Super_Randy wrote:

but it did look cool so... :?

That's the point :) I wouldn't mind having one, for sure.

a Göpll, copy of Kombi made in East Germany, often on a wooden structure with various engines.

proof socialism works :lol:

December 26, 1971: A whole new look on the Spirit of Christmas... (Eurocircuit - Netherlands)

the origins of class 11 :shock:

Pick-up and trailer in 1945 made by VW.

In the picture you can see a soaked pretzel beetle in a kind of car wash. Apparently the two women on the sides are responsible for the soaking and rinsing of the vehicle.
Why is the photo special? Not until the 8th. In August 1962, Johann Sulzberger and Gebhard Weigele patented the first "self-propelled car wash for motor vehicles" in Augsburg: Two brushes drove around the car on tracks. Machine cleaning was invented. However, there has been an early form of automatic car washing in the United States since 1951.
The very first car wash opened in Detroit, Michigan in 1914. The car wash was called "Automated Laundry", but it wasn't really automated. The "Automated Laundry" was used according to the traditional "bucket-and-sponge" principle.
So what we are seeing here is a further development of the manual car wash. The car license plate, a British license plate, existed only until 1956, so it helps with the timing order. Thanks to Willy Lehmacher, we can now prove how the first car wash machines evolved on the way to the automatic car wash.
Digital scan of original negative. About 1952. Photo by Willy Lehmacher. © City Archive Hagen.

This is the V303/3, the cornerstone convertible that was used to drive AH to the train station after the ceremony on May 26, 1938. Completely hand made as part of the small V303 series of 3 cars. Sometimes mistaken for the VW38/31 AH convertible that he received for his 50th birthday in 1939 and which still exists, but it is not the same car. The biggest clue is the double row of air slots in and above the lid, plus the molding.
This picture is taken in Wolfsburg after the British occupied the zone and got the Volkswagenwerk up and running again, so the car survived the war. But it disappeared soon after, never to be seen again. It was 8 years old at the time, so few people realised its significance.

somebody posted this on a model car forum

Wow, that's gorgeous. Have you seen that one in person?

schwim wrote:

Wow, that's gorgeous. Have you seen that one in person?

nope, that's from back in your neck of the hood. i screen shotted it from a "Scr8peFest 25" video. which apparently was the last Scr8peFest. show took place in Newton, NC.