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1:18 WW2 VW Beetle on eBay
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 5:32 am
by kduck
I'm not sure how accurate it is. Not really something I'd be interested in but others may be. The shipping is really high though.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1-18-BBI-FOV-ULTIMA ... 18Q2el1247
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 9:36 am
by Panzer_M
only cabrio kafer i know is this design. the model looks to be a post war just backdated.
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:08 am
by pcb122605
The one on eBay looks the same as one I have - just painted in a more military scheme. I think I got it at Walmart for 10 or 15 bucks.
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:48 am
by [CAT]CplSlade
Well, I can't see much detail in the photos, but what I can see is the wrong style bumper.
Someone just took an early 50's split window cabriolet and modified it just a little. Most people aren't aware of the small differences in model years. Might surprise some of you to know that over 5500 changes were made to the Beetle from 1949-1979.
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 12:56 pm
by Panzer_M
[CAT]CplSlade wrote:Well, I can't see much detail in the photos, but what I can see is the wrong style bumper.
Someone just took an early 50's split window cabriolet and modified it just a little. Most people aren't aware of the small differences in model years. Might surprise some of you to know that over 5500 changes were made to the Beetle from 1949-1979.
I got the book "small wonder" and it list the changes made every year for the run of the beetle. Also tells the full history of Volkswagen.
[+] War Beetle
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 6:13 pm
by MG-42
[+] > I like mine the best. *
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Re: [+] War Beetle
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:47 am
by King O' Fools
Yours looks real cool. I like that blur effect in your VW camouflage pattern, but still prefer the dunkelgrau.
On a side note, my grandad on my father's side spent the war as a Dutch merchant navy captain running convoys for the Allies, and when he returned home after liberation he was apparently riding a captured VW with a Free Dutch Army chaffeur (or so I'm told).
