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Sri Lanka Tsunami - RIP - Early 60's beetle

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BLUE_62 · 2 Jan 2005, 5:01 pm

Bound to happen by out of all the cars they post a picture of a beetle getting removed from a pile of rubble?

The humanity of it all..... Do u think it floated?

BLUE_62 · 2 Jan 2005, 5:02 pm

Oh, was in the Friday Herald Sun (page 11)

Sorry about the picture quality. Scanner is playing up so had to take a photo with the digital camera.

jenz58 · 2 Jan 2005, 8:56 pm

I say that beetle in a collage of pics the other day in the Herald Sun... 🙁

matara · 2 Jan 2005, 9:20 pm

I have a friend in Singapore that rescued a 1951 cabrio beetle from Sri Lanka some time ago!. He can't even register it in Singapore!

Steve

killakornkobb · 4 Jan 2005, 5:12 pm

one of my old mans cousin's is restoring an oval in Sri Lanka🙂 and when he (my old man) went back there last christmas (03) he saw his dads (my grandfathers) old white beetle still cruising around with the same rego plate🙂

Wooh Yeah! thankfully theyre in the west so not terribly affected by the giant wave 🙂

last celtic warrior · 4 Jan 2005, 6:44 pm

Judging by the condition of the Beetle, they should have stayed in their car... It faired really well.