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DONT MENTION THE WAR!

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vdub2c Magazine Dude

245 posts · joined Oct 2002 ·

#15410
love the pics man...
especially the last one.. where hitler is laughing at the beetle...
he probably started production of them in the hope that the americans would laugh themselves to death at the sight of it!

Andy Andy\'s Adventures

2,820 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#15426
Hitler and Mr Porche were pretty good buddies. He did a good sell job to hitler, and hence the beetle was born!

[Edited on 17-12-2002 by Andy]

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#15575
Andy
Hitler and Mr Porche were pretty good buddies
you should read the book Small Wonder, Porsche had so much trouble, getting to Hitler n getting the project under way.
I read it on FACEBOOK so it must be true


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Andy Andy\'s Adventures

2,820 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#15642
Thanks Dave, I'll look it up!
Andy

jenz58 Postal Menace

9,121 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#15719
OK won't say anything!

😎 pics

fatboy Disciple of Kol

603 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#15722
This Basil,
This Basils Wife,
This Slap on Head 😀😀😀

Oh the memories
" Captain Picard, why are there no Indians on the Enterprise ? Don't you need IT Support ? "

Grey 57 Old Grey Cruiser

2,937 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#16021
Don't mention the war.
"You started it"
" no we didnt'"
"yes you did, you invaded Poland"

Classic Fawlty. Luv it.

Whose going to be the first to Photo shop that Hitler pic with a speech bubble????
:rudolf:beer:tree

The_Bronze. Minister of Volkswagenism

1,922 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#17656
I'd actually like to know what the waiter in the back ground is saying to the guy in the white suit beside him.

Hmmm - to be a fly on the wall!
Bronze.

Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#18837
The fellows in white coats weren't waiters. The one with the patches on His white coat is an officer of some kind, and the other one in a white dust coat , is probably an engineer ..... I wonder what ever happened to that model????
and its a sad fact that without BRITISH intervention After the war... the Beetle would NEVER have been a Success, and Yes, I've read the books & seen the photos.... I have a collection of VW & Porsche books.... and a few Models too..
Many VW owners like to know as much as they can about the history of "the little wonder of the world":thumb
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#18847
Did You know that in the episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil Hits Manuel on the head with a large frying pan - He knocked Manuel unconscious and split his head open....
and that POLLY was BASIL'S Real Life Wife when the series was made....

Memories.... and don't mention the war!

"A dirty Rat Fawlty- Vermin-" [the Major]
"Where is the Generalisimo?"
"in Madrid" [Manuel]
I love em....

:bounce😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

Grey 57 Old Grey Cruiser

2,937 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#18851
"Did you know" that were only ever 8 episodes of Fawlty Towers ever made!!!
Seems like a lot more. :thumb

jenz58 Postal Menace

9,121 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#18876
You are kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!:o Only eight I don't believe it. Seems like so many more.


Must be that each time you watch them you pick up on something new?!😀

fatboy Disciple of Kol

603 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#18883
Yes definatley 12 - and I have almost downloaded all of them (about 50% of the last one to go!)
" Captain Picard, why are there no Indians on the Enterprise ? Don't you need IT Support ? "

Grey 57 Old Grey Cruiser

2,937 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#18901
Thanks guys for the correction. I had the same argument with the person who told me it was 8.
I couldn't believe that it was only 8 either.
Now I know fer sure.
Cheers

jenz58 Postal Menace

9,121 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#18995
Well 12 is only 4 more🙂 Still doesn't seem enough, but there you go.

Hey got that Woody Allen movie 'Sleeper'😀

I walk by this cult movie store in Elizabeth St every day and had never noticed the sign before. Well it is up a narrow flight of stairs between other shops, very dark and smells of stale body odour:puke

I thought this place would have it for sure and it did. Sweet!! Bought 'Soylent Green' while I was there, apparently very rare. It's a classic.

Still haven't mentioned the war😉

HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#18998
This guy just sets himself up for so much grief!



arghhh where'd the pic go?

[Edited on 7-1-2003 by HotRodMatt]

HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#18999
Bloody hell! Where did the pic go?

jenz58 Postal Menace

9,121 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#19040
LOL

There's a few of us that ask that question at times🙂

You'll get used to it and eventually master it. Good Luck, I'll watch out for it!!! Loved the build up to it:thumb

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#19098
Hi

The last pic with Adolf looking at the Beetle, I know a guy in Australia who has one of those models, one of 3 I think, it was given to ?? Hartnet when he went the factory after the war when the ??? Hartnet went over to look over the factory to see if it was a vaible car for Australian production. ??? Hartnets grandson gave it to my friend. I dont want to mention my friends name here without his permission.

I hope get some picturs of the model soon for the Toy Department in Zeitschrift, the Club VeeDub Sydney mag and they will be posted on the club site as well.

1302Steve

Jay_1965vw Chatting Babe

1,429 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#19327
LMAO. Oh dear... hehehehe


Jay

Dubless in Canada
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