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#1 Posted : 20 August 2009 13:56:32

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I've been thinking about adding this for a while, I think it would be a great way to document changes throughout the years.

Progressive Refinements

The idea is that there will be a post for each subject and we gather photos of changes throughout the years, the top post will then be edited to show all the relevant changes in date order (with other oddities like convertible options)

So then anyone needing to know what their car should have, they can use this section as a reference.

This isn't something I can do on my own, so I'm looking for help - pics of your own cars, friends cars, pics from shows etc. Suggestions for other components etc. Beer My thoughts so far are:

Door handles
Tail lights
headlights
semaphores
rear view mirrors
engine parts?
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#2 Posted : 20 August 2009 14:30:06

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Until which year, he asks speculatively? To the bitter end, or just til 67?
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#3 Posted : 20 August 2009 14:43:36

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great idea Rob!
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#4 Posted : 20 August 2009 14:59:54

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Let's concentrate on up to '67 for now Rolling Eyes
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#5 Posted : 20 August 2009 16:13:08

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pre67vw wrote:
Let's concentrate on up to '67 for now Rolling Eyes


Ok just wondering - should we just send pics of what we have, because I don´t personally know what years things changed? That way we may turn up unknown differences also.
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#6 Posted : 20 August 2009 16:32:23

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Ok just wondering - should we just send pics of what we have, because I don´t personally know what years things changed? That way we may turn up unknown differences also.


Post them up, I'm not sure of all the changes of all the years either - kind of the idea of the section. If you know the years then put it, if not then lets work it out Cool
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Great idea! Cool

Can we have a section on glass logos?
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#8 Posted : 20 August 2009 17:33:01

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As above, great idea Rob. I've just kicked the handle thread off but I bet that turns out to be a bus handle! Laughing

I'm surprised this has not been done before as there are many books that detail the changes but nothing on the web that I know of and I'm always surprised how many times the same question gets asked on the Samba.

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#9 Posted : 20 August 2009 22:31:47

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Great! Glad people are up for it...

What I'll probably do is delete or move and off-topic posts from this section so that it's tidy and easy to find stuff. Then when it's about done I'll probably lock the posts to stop people asking questions on the threads.

I have a few detail photos from shows from when I had this sort of thing in mind, I'll add those as well.

Thanks people!
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#10 Posted : 20 August 2009 23:14:47

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54 Gertie wrote:
Great idea! Cool

Can we have a section on glass logos?


Yep, but probably tricky to photograph?
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#11 Posted : 21 August 2009 11:26:01

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Yep, but probably tricky to photograph?


It can be done, just need to get the angle right. Normally takes me about ten shots one after the other to get the correct combination of settings and angle etc. Wink
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#12 Posted : 23 August 2009 10:30:02

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54 Gertie wrote:


It can be done, just need to get the angle right. Normally takes me about ten shots one after the other to get the correct combination of settings and angle etc. Wink


Yes, 10 attempts is about right, about the most difficult thing to photograph! Laughing Laughing

GREAT idea Rob! Beer

( but I just realised I should have kept quiet as my own intrigue could make me a lot of work Mad Laughing
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Until which year, he asks speculatively? To the bitter end,


'79/80 is NOT BITTER YOU GIT! Laughing I'll get you Butler..
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#14 Posted : 23 August 2009 12:13:46

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'79/80 is NOT BITTER YOU GIT! Laughing I'll get you Butler..


Shocked Very Happy Beer
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i have PR #1 -62 and PR #2 62-67 (jan 6eight) pm me your address and i can send you copy of both on a cd...scanned from my original copies 15 years ago. i got tired of sending these out so if on web much better.
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#16 Posted : 03 June 2010 18:54:53

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Like those really nice but subtle curve differences of the pre-1950 front wings.

My '47 and '49 have their originals – so nice to the trained eye, but difficult to show well on camera Confused

Legendary car and megastar, the UK's most famous and loved Volkswagen – Rattletrap the Beetle Cool

'A Beetle's an even bigger hit when the rear window is split' Wink
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