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Feast your eyes on the most fabulous collection of period photographs of Volkswagens from LIFE magazine:

http://images.google.com/images?&hl=en& ... =0&ndsp=21

A small selection:
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Im gona hav 1 of those beetles 1 day,thanks for the pix Fig,lank cool!!
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Weird how something so good can be borne from something so bad.
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Love the old pictures....thanks
"MO" - 1965 Splitscreen bus --> http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... =37&t=9305" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"BOBBIE" - 1963 Beetle --> http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... 23&t=11338" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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gazzapen wrote:Weird how something so good can be borne from something so bad.
Whats so bad about having a poor country and then getting all the automobile companies to tender for a car which is to be made cheaply so that the entire population can have transport?

Hitler may have been an evil person, but he was one of the best leaders this planet has ever seen
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Tony Z wrote:
gazzapen wrote:Weird how something so good can be borne from something so bad.
Whats so bad about having a poor country and then getting all the automobile companies to tender for a car which is to be made cheaply so that the entire population can have transport?

Hitler may have been an evil person, but he was one of the best leaders this planet has ever seen
That man was a genius, albeit in an evil way..

Without him, there would be no Volkswagen today :shock:
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Tony Z wrote:
gazzapen wrote:Weird how something so good can be borne from something so bad.
Whats so bad about having a poor country and then getting all the automobile companies to tender for a car which is to be made cheaply so that the entire population can have transport?

Hitler may have been an evil person, but he was one of the best leaders this planet has ever seen
WTF. A leader? I honestly cant believe you admire Hitler.
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Yes, you are damn right. Other than his sinister plans to take over the world, he was a great leader. Better than any of the idiots in charge of SA right now.

How many leaders can take a country that is in such poor state that it matches Zim today and turn it around to be one of the strongest and wealthiest countries on the planet in only a few years? Yes, I admit, then he did think he could rule the world...
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Never mind Hitler, how about posting some of your favourite pics from the link in my first post.

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