Vintage photos *

[Volktales]

Thought this would be a good picture for the nostalgia section. This was taken around 1995 at the last VW event I ever took my 1970 Beetle to. It was held in Coombs, I think it was put on by Country Volks at the time but I am not sure of that.



That Beetle to the right with the weird two tone was much later owned by a long ago customer. Unfortunately the kid totalled it (and ruined the two other beetles he had too)



This picture was the last one I ever took of my car where it still looked relatively respectable. Don't look too close or you will spot the rust/primer spots... These wheels will be returned to this car someday!







Found this original Volkswagen postcard lastnight.. Don will approve.



This postcard was sent to my Granny's friend back in 1971 as a reminder to bring her new fastback in for the 6000 mile service. Does anyone remember Maguire Motors in Duncan? It was in business from 1968-?. Incidently my Granny bought her 1970 Beetle from Maguire as she was pissed off with the treatment from the local Harrison Motors in Nanaimo. Maguire further sweetened the deal by giving her a very rare accessory, a Kamei parcel shelf assembly which had a trap door in it to access the rear luggage shelf and was covered with the same material as the headliner. I have never seen another one of these. Too bad I cut it up when installing speakers in it almost 30 years ago!




How about my very first VW's.



Only one owner since new! Had them both since the very early '70's. Funny to think I ended up with the real versions too!

[Volktales]

While looking for the photos of Tony's new '53, I discovered this.....



That is my first car in March of 1986 just before it was to be taken apart for new Green paint. Looks solid doesn't it. 27 years later it ain't. Still miss the old S&S header hanging off the back.







1960's weirdness.. I spotted this in a Chemainus antique shop almost 20 years ago and couldn't say no....



It is actually a drink decanter set, and contains a bottle of scotch (looooong gone) and four shot glasses, sadly missing two of them.



The top pops up revealing the booze inside. Turn the steering wheel and a mechanical music box inside plays "Around the World in 80 Days". This version is all metal and dates from the early 1960's. I have also seen later 70's era plastic ones as well. Did anyone actually ever use these things? Kind of weird....







This kind of qualifies for nostalgia.... Went up in my attic today to take a look. Found some dampness which had unfortunately got into things I had stored up there almost 20 years ago. Took all the stuff down and look what happened....



The above picture shows about only 1/4 of the stuff I dragged out of there. Long before I had real cars, I did a lot of car models. This ended once the real cars came along, just like Dad said it would... As my kid has zero interest in this type if thing, I think it is time to go e-bay....





Did find some VW's I had long forgotten about. Custom painted the big Tonka dune buggy years ago. Original owner of the smaller ones.





And finally here is something different. I can't take credit for doing the fine construction job on this one. My sister was a HUGE KISS fan back in the 70's and this was her one and only model build. Sweet, isn't it!







Ok this was a Christmas tradition started by me well over 30 years ago...



Mom always liked to put out this little village display with sugar for snow. I couldn't resist and drove my VW through it.



And here is the culprit. My grandma gave me this Beetle when I was little. Been "driving" it one day a year since then

[rustybug61]

No pic. But the first vdub I recall was when I was 2 or 3. My folks had a red and white 23 window. A garbage truck hit the side of it and they had it towed away. Sad

[nanaimobeetle]

Here is/are pix of my first VW. A 1958, complete with rag roof and those lovely big whitewalls. Sigh.




Hey!  Finally got the links to work  It's not Photobucket, rather "Smugmug" for those Mac users out there.

dg

[PICTUP]

Oct 21, 2014 10:58:20 GMT -8 nanaimobeetle said:

Here is/are pix of my first VW. A 1958, complete with rag roof and those lovely big whitewalls. Sigh.

Sorry about pix size, just experimenting.

Welcome to the site nanaimobeetle,

You will have Volktales drooling over your 58 shod in its fatty whitewalls! Check out the following Volktales posted for easily making big photos on the site:

miacvw.proboards.com/thread/62/post-big-juicy-pictures-photobucket


My hope is that most will move to this Photobucket method because we do actually have a limited free storage space on this site for attached photos. At some point we will have to start paying for space, but with Photobucket this will not be an issue. It is a great way to share pics with others too, not just on this site.

Cheers,
Don