The storm caused by the obviously faked '52 split is intriguing:!:

I have seen others advertised over recent months which I have been very sure are duds, and not for small sums of money either :shock:

Has anybody noticed just how many oval-dashed (zwitter) splits come up for sale? Considering a short production run from October '52 to March '53:?:

These zwitters are nearly always deluxes with new headling and a full respray. Now we know for example, that an April '53 Oval is very much the same as a November '52 split.

It seems that early ovals are becoming less, as well as many discovered split wrecks in woods losing their rear window:!:

I have no more to say other than I would not buy a zwitter. However if a car offered had the original stained headling down to and around the rear window, and preferably very old dull paint, or I knew the car's history very well I would consider it :wink:

A 'proper' pre October '52 split is a better bet, and judging by the mess of the red and white "52 split" in the previous thread, much more involved to fake from an oval :p

Study the end curves of the rear window on the car below…  Fake Split1.JPG You have insufficient rights to see the content.

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Agree, the rear windows do not look correct. They should also have the aluminium trim in the rear window rubbers.

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No it wasn't that, although the trim should be there on a deluxe zwitter, being missing does not make it a dud. Look at the end curves again and how close they are to the louvres:!:

It's an oval with the centre pillar put in. On a split window the end curves move further away from the louvres, but on an oval the curve follows the louvres.

This was for sale as a zwitter and not cheap. Usually the complete window from a wrecked donor split is welded in, so this is unusual :wink:

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Adrian's (beetlemania on here) '55 sunroof standard confuses a lot of people. The window was put in by a previous owner before it came in to the UK.
There's a note in the window explaining that it's really an oval!
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Such a rare car it was anyway before the alteration:!:

Really nice too. Just shows you how careful you need to be about buying a zwiitter::wink:

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Really nice too. Just shows you how careful you need to be about buying a zwiitter::wink: