Re: A last VW shot - for Olaf
| November 30, 2019 02:25PM |
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Olaf's recent posts with his 1967 Beetle inspired me to add this shot. Among our photos was this one of our 1957 Volkswagen, altho it was actually taken showing my cousin who bought it from us as his first car in 1960. Info about the year of the car and photo is from him.
Like Olaf's Beetle, that little car did a decent amount of railfanning, including the 1959 trip to Edaville. I forget if it had a heater, but if it did I recall it was useless. There was a small "shelf" behind the rear seat, essentially below the back window, and on long trips as a small kid I'd climb up there and have a snooze. Boy, if the police caught parents letting their kid do that now.....
Cheers,
P.S. - Is it Ed-a-Ville or is it EEd-a-ville? It's a made up word, so I don't know which.
Like Olaf's Beetle, that little car did a decent amount of railfanning, including the 1959 trip to Edaville. I forget if it had a heater, but if it did I recall it was useless. There was a small "shelf" behind the rear seat, essentially below the back window, and on long trips as a small kid I'd climb up there and have a snooze. Boy, if the police caught parents letting their kid do that now.....
Cheers,
P.S. - Is it Ed-a-Ville or is it EEd-a-ville? It's a made up word, so I don't know which.
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