Old photo......'52 Beetle
HappyDaze - June 20th, 2014 at 08:11 AM
Found an old photo of my '52 Beetle, just before I sold it [around 1981].
sander288 - June 20th, 2014 at 06:29 PM
That's some patina!
What's its story?
cnfabo - June 20th, 2014 at 09:37 PM
Why those later tail lights
HappyDaze - June 21st, 2014 at 07:12 AM
The car was like that when I bought it from the original owners, who lived in East Maitland, NSW. They brought it with them from Germany, where they
bought it new.
It had been 'modernised' [tail lights, etc.] here and there, and the sun-roof was coverd in by pop-rivetting a turret section from a Beetle over it.
Apart from that, it was very original.
Anyone guess what the car next to it is ?
sander288 - June 21st, 2014 at 09:53 AM
I've got nothing on the car next to it..... something British? or other body on VW chassis?
bat69 - June 21st, 2014 at 01:03 PM
Austin?
oldskoolguy - June 21st, 2014 at 01:11 PM
Nash Healey?
HappyDaze - June 21st, 2014 at 03:18 PM
It is Pommy, and they only made 254 of them....in 1954. Chassis is chrome-moly tube, and the body is steel and aluminium. Engine, and other
mechanicals are Triumph TR-2.
hellbugged - June 21st, 2014 at 04:18 PM
Nash
HappyDaze - June 22nd, 2014 at 09:44 AM
Really shouldn't expect you 'young fellas' to know.
It's a Swallow Doretti...had it for nearly 40 years. Actually my son, David, has it now.
oldskoolguy - June 22nd, 2014 at 09:49 AM
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Really shouldn't expect you 'young fellas' to know.
It's a Swallow Doretti...had it for nearly 40 years. Actually my son, David, has it now.
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Wow, never would have guessed that mate, going to have to look that up,.........nice looking car from the images I've seen so far.
Rob.
Undis - July 5th, 2014 at 08:50 PM
Thanks for posting the picture. Looks like it was modernised quite a bit. Seems the rear guards together with the lights have been exchanged for ones
from mid-sixties. Also the engine lid is from a late oval if it's the same as on the car now. I do wonder what had happened to the original parts
considering the owners had the car since new.
Pastit - July 8th, 2014 at 01:00 PM
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Really shouldn't expect you 'young fellas' to know.
It's a Swallow Doretti...had it for nearly 40 years. Actually my son, David, has it now.
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Wow, never would have guessed that mate, going to have to look that up,.........nice looking car from the images I've seen so far.
Rob.
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I have seen another one of those, I thought it was Italian. A bloke in the bush has two TR2's and the Doretti. I haven't seen it in a few years, I
thought it had aluminium panels.
Joel - July 8th, 2014 at 01:08 PM
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Seems the rear guards together with the lights have been exchanged for ones from mid-sixties. Also the engine lid is from a late oval if it's the
same as on the car now. I do wonder what had happened to the original parts considering the owners had the car since new.
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Going by the major height difference in the tail lights between the 2 sides I'd say its a pretty safe bet the RHS guard is original, just the LHS is
a 60s guard.
Might have been in a light accident going by the wrong guard and decklid.
Undis - July 19th, 2014 at 08:06 PM
I see what you mean Joel. however the picture seems to be a photo of a photo and there is some serious distortion going on as it seems to be taken at
an angle. Original split guards should have an indentation behind the tail light. This area was always covered when later model tail lights were
installed resulting in a strange positioning of the lights. This can be seen on many updated splits in Europe.
