Remspoor Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 Keeping in with the theme that @MiniMinorMk3 is running here is another one of those "pesky foreign cars" Leeidse Veer Utrecht Three Speed, lesapandre, DSdriver and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felonious Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Three photos of the Quai de Javel Citroën fatory in Paris. First one in 1956, the other two in the early 1970s. GeorgeB, Dyslexic Viking, RayMK and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EML Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Grimsby lockhill roundabout 1983 Photo snaffled from the Gy Telegraph website Remspoor, Dyslexic Viking, lesapandre and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Three Speed, Austat, RayMK and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Austat, Andrew353w, lesapandre and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 lesapandre, RayMK, Remspoor and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 lesapandre, MiniMinorMk3, RayMK and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 The Cotton Club in Harlem (Noo Yoik), 1938. lesapandre, Dyslexic Viking, RayMK and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Norway 1969 Remspoor, martc, Skut and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Norway 1950s or 1960s Macscrooge, Skut, RayMK and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 Remspoor, Andrew353w, lesapandre and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 lesapandre, sheffcortinacentre and Remspoor 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 21 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said: Norway 1950s or 1960s Left over ex-German army Kubelwagens? MiniMinorMk3, lisbon_road and Macscrooge 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 1 hour ago, lesapandre said: Left over ex-German army Kubelwagens? Yes. There were a good number of them here after the war, some even got new bodies from beetles. lesapandre, lisbon_road and Remspoor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 Oslo Norway 1962 Remspoor, lesapandre, MiniMinorMk3 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisbon_road Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 3 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said: Yes. There were a good number of them here after the war, some even got new bodies from beetles. May I ask how that works? Would the Norwegians buy a new body from VW and fit it to an old Kubelwagen? lesapandre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 7 minutes ago, lisbon_road said: May I ask how that works? Would the Norwegians buy a new body from VW and fit it to an old Kubelwagen? Sweden had a better economy than Norway in the 1950s, so cars were scrapped earlier there, and Norway had purchase restrictions on cars then, so there was a big market in buying car parts in Sweden. So I guess they used beetle bodies from scrapped or cheap beetles in Sweden. But I could be completely wrong. lesapandre, Remspoor and lisbon_road 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 9 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said: Sweden had a better economy than Norway in the 1950s, so cars were scrapped earlier there, and Norway had purchase restrictions on cars then, so there was a big market in buying car parts in Sweden. So I guess they used beetle bodies from scrapped or cheap beetles in Sweden. But I could be completely wrong. I can also add for those who don't know. These have a separate body and bottom part/frame, so it is possible to change the body. I don't know how well a beetle body fit a Kupelwagen bottom part, but Norway had creative and clever mechanics back then who could make most things work. Beetle bottom part/frame lesapandre, Yoss and lisbon_road 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisbon_road Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 12 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said: Sweden had a better economy than Norway in the 1950s, so cars were scrapped earlier there, and Norway had purchase restrictions on cars then, so there was a big market in buying car parts in Sweden. So I guess they used beetle bodies from scrapped or cheap beetles in Sweden. But I could be completely wrong. Perhaps then the owners of some very old beetles in Norway might not realise that parts of their cars are even older than they thought. lesapandre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 5 minutes ago, lisbon_road said: Perhaps then the owners of some very old beetles in Norway might not realise that parts of their cars are even older than they thought. It is possible but I don't know how common this was. At least I have read about one that was rebuilt like this and there should be more. One thing I came across now. In Narvik Norway 2012 they found and dug up a Kubelwagen that was buried in a garden in 1965. MiniMinorMk3, lesapandre, lisbon_road and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisbon_road Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 There are other examples of how shortage of money makes people innovative. I've put here a picture of a bus on Malta, made from a 1959 Bedford SB chassis with a locally built body. I am sure many of you know how famous the Malta bus builders were. I suppose at the moment in the UK there are cars being fixed now that a few years ago would have been forgotten! Remspoor, Yoss, Dyslexic Viking and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 Barrow in Furness Shite Ron, lesapandre, Dyslexic Viking and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 20 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said: Yes. There were a good number of them here after the war, some even got new bodies from beetles. Maybe they were/are a VW Type 82E, which is a Kubel chassis with a Beetle body. VW built almost 700 of them lisbon_road, Dyslexic Viking, Remspoor and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Remspoor, lesapandre and RayMK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 4 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said: Maybe they were/are a VW Type 82E, which is a Kubel chassis with a Beetle body. VW built almost 700 of them It could be. But I've read that some Kubelwagen got beetle bodys here so this is something that happened. lisbon_road, MiniMinorMk3 and lesapandre 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Remspoor, RayMK, lesapandre and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisbon_road Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 I believe that this is Trinidad? Dyslexic Viking, RayMK, MiniMinorMk3 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Barras Bridge, 1975. RayMK, Dyslexic Viking, MiniMinorMk3 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Berlin 1978. Remspoor, lisbon_road, MiniMinorMk3 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 55 minutes ago, lisbon_road said: I believe that this is Trinidad? Flags or mascots on the Cortina bonnets. lisbon_road 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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