Posted by: six-o-one - 13 May 2007 20:52:53
I've found a few ads from December 1950 and a dealership photo from March 1951...

Posted by: six-o-one - 13 May 2007 20:54:12
From December 1950... [ATTACH]880[/Attach]

Posted by: six-o-one - 13 May 2007 21:02:04
Dec 1950... [ATTACH]881[/Attach]

Posted by: JD - 15 May 2007 09:31:50
Why do the guys in these old adds always smoke a pipe?

Posted by: six-o-one - 16 May 2007 13:36:03
[quote="JD"]Why do the guys in these old adds always smoke a pipe?[/quote] They're all wearing slippers too, but you can't see their feet! :wink:

Posted by: 48REME - 16 May 2007 16:00:47
And it always looks like the cars are so roomy that you can fit about six people, legs stretched right out, plus huge amounts of luggage! :D

Posted by: JD - 16 May 2007 16:06:18
[quote="48REME"]And it always looks like the cars are so roomy that you can fit about six people, legs stretched right out, plus huge amounts of luggage! :D [/quote] I understand the evil practice of exploiting pipe smoking midgets in automobile advertising was only stopped in `57 when the midgets got unionised. See any Hillman Ad from the Fifties. They were by far the worst offenders.

Posted by: 48REME - 16 May 2007 19:27:33
And why is everyone always smiling? Mummy and Daddy aren't speaking to each other but a radiant look of joy adorns their very Arian faces. Meanwhile the kids at the back, identical miniature versions of the parents, often wave at what we can only guess to be Friesian cows or maybe some huge factory in the Ruhr. Let's face it, the marriage is probably over, he's having an affair, the kids are uncontrolable, early 50s post-war Germany looks bleak and those cable brakes and crash gearbox are a pain especially since it's probably raining too! :wink:

Posted by: JD - 17 May 2007 00:26:18
They really were just lying through their teeth weren't they. Look at the size of these. It looks like Buick or something. [img]https://www.charm.net/~pdbragg/whatsahillman/59iiia.gif[/img] [img]https://www.charm.net/~pdbragg/whatsahillman/supminx.jpg[/img]

Posted by: Tina - 17 May 2007 11:28:57
they where waving and smiling and pipe smoking because ww 2 was over and they where alive.......................... only few of them had a car before and after ww 2 almost everybody was thinking and saving money to get his very first own car........ and this when just aged 40-50, not as today we got the car with ages 16-18 in the garage.......

Posted by: JD - 20 May 2007 00:28:29
Makes mental note to self for the hundredth time, never again to attempt humour in the presence of foreigners.

Posted by: mrsherbie - 20 May 2007 11:04:45
[quote="JD"]Makes mental note to self for the hundredth time, never again to attempt humour in the presence of foreigners.[/quote] :lol: But I think you are right Tina :D

Posted by: six-o-one - 21 May 2007 20:19:31
Okay, back to the initial post... Has anyone come across any later references to the two seater cabriolet in VW literature? :D

Posted by: vintagevw - 22 May 2007 22:56:22
[quote="six-o-one"]From December 1950... [/quote] Could you make a copy of the december brochure? My car is a AMAG Swiss one! Let me know, thanks!