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atom ◊ 2010-10-18 00:45	@ingo, this time you don't have to ask
dsl ◊ 2010-10-18 00:46	German plates - he probably owns/owned it. -- Last edit: 2010-10-18 01:39:55
electra225 ◊ 2010-10-18 07:16	1971 for the absence of the bumber gum edges...!!! Therefore a very first one !
Ingo ◊ 2010-10-18 18:58	@dsl: sorry, but it's rather a new Danish plate. To see by the combination and the little red stripe around. @electra: sorry, not a first one. It's a 1973 -only 1973- Standard model (usual in DK due their high luxoury tax on any extra options). It's leuchtorange and had already the new front (rounded fender-edges, bigger front panel with two vents). The rubbers on the bumpers, electra225 has mentioned, were availiable for the L-trim (and, as I've learned at our last K 70-meeting, in Belgium specially they were an extra option for the basic version). But it still has the old front hood with the plastic vent-grille. As after crashes the old hoods and also the front panels were always replaced with the newer versions, this specific car is probably built in August 1972, in the first days after the summer vacations, where they had exhausted their last old-style front hoods. In June 1972 you got K 70 with the old body, but still the new front panel. From this view it could be something really rare - an extra-option-free Standard version. P.S. Specially for rljuna2 These rectangular front lamps are not identical with the pre-1972-version. Completely different, made as a Bilux-version and as H4. These lamps were only made for the (rare) 1973-75 Standard-version. With one exception: In Sweden they were mandatory as H4. So also for the K 70 L, which in MY 1973 got the double round lamps. In Summer 1972 there came a Swedish law, that cars must have H4-lamps. For any strange reasons VW hadn't the round front lamps in H4-version in their programme. Very strange due the fact, that these round lamps were/still are an absolute common part, used by a plenty of other makers for a plenty of other cars. An example for an old version with a new front panel: /vehicle.php?id=31593#Comment816388 Old version, old front, maybe a Standard or one of the very first L without the bumper-rubbers: /vehicle_49223-Volkswagen-K70-Typ-48-1971.html -- Last edit: 2010-10-18 19:16:01
rjluna2 ◊ 2010-10-18 20:19	ingo wrote P.S. Specially for rljuna2 These rectangular front lamps are not identical with the pre-1972-version. Completely different, made as a Bilux-version and as H4. These lamps were only made for the (rare) 1973-75 Standard-version. With one exception: In Sweden they were mandatory as H4. So also for the K 70 L, which in MY 1973 got the double round lamps. In Summer 1972 there came a Swedish law, that cars must have H4-lamps. For any strange reasons VW hadn't the round front lamps in H4-version in their programme. Very strange due the fact, that these round lamps were/still are an absolute common part, used by a plenty of other makers for a plenty of other cars. An interesting regulation At least there are more than one type of headlight that is being used that the Ford did do with the 1978/79 F-Series headlights. The round one were usually reserved for the low trim level meanwhile the rectangluar headlight were reseved for the other trim level.
Ingo ◊ 2010-10-18 21:30	Oh, VW did this up to the 80ies. H4-lights costs extra, without extra charge you got Bilux and later H1. Maybe not for all models, but for sure for the Käfer, the Polo (up to Typ86C) and the T3. -- Last edit: 2010-10-18 21:32:06
Ingo ◊ 2010-10-18 21:42	On these two pics you see four times the same front lamps (size and construction), but four different versions: Left Bilux, still the original make (@130rapid: do you know the brand, I forgit it), on the right H4 Left H1 in French version, right the normal H1. The high beam-lamps on my car (the inner ones) are gone, so for that reason they are looking blind and matt.
Ingo ◊ 2010-10-18 22:54	All three K 70-front-lamps versions on one pic: One of our cats had a surgery and wasn't allowed to climbing stairs. -- Last edit: 2010-10-18 22:55:30
kudos ◊ 2011-09-01 18:48	Is that leuchtorange?
rjluna2 ◊ 2011-09-01 18:53	kudos wrote Is that leuchtorange? Yes as ingo first mentioned in this thread
kudos ◊ 2011-09-01 18:54	Oh, never noticed!
Ingo ◊ 2011-09-03 00:47	So folks, I have to leave for vacations, so please don't post too many interesting cars - think about the work, to check everything after the retun See you!
dsl ◊ 2011-09-03 01:17	ingo wrote So folks, I have to leave for vacations.... Hee hee - shall we be naughty rabbits while he's away and post up all new K70s as K69s to see if he finds them when he gets back?!?
chicomarx ◊ 2011-09-03 01:23	Just had a couple of Olivgrün K70s planned, not to mention one in Preußisch Blau. Bad timing...
rjluna2 ◊ 2011-09-03 03:02	ingo wrote So folks, I have to leave for vacations, [sic]. See you! Enjoy your break!
G-MANN ◊ 2011-09-15 21:04	ingo wrote So folks, I have to leave for vacations I wonder why there hadn't been as many comments from Ingo the last week or so Enjoy your holiday, Ingo. -- Last edit: 2011-09-15 21:05:25
chicomarx ◊ 2011-09-15 21:20	Ingo's vacation also means a mini-holiday for the server.
chris40 ◊ 2011-09-15 21:49	Aber das Bild wurde nicht gefunden ...
Ingo ◊ 2011-10-03 15:15	Hi around, I'm back Believe it or not, but this was really the first pic, I made on the trip. Purely "made for IMCDb":
rjluna2 ◊ 2011-10-03 16:16	Welcome back, ingo!
dsl ◊ 2011-10-03 16:33	ingo wrote I'm back Quick everyone - look busy.
Ingo ◊ 2011-10-03 19:12	Rather tired. Due jetlag, one lost night, plus monosodium glutamate-containing food the day before (which has destroyed my night's rest the night before), I'm totally groggy right now. So more pics will come later (I could make some snapshots for some of you ). -- Last edit: 2011-10-03 19:12:28
kudos ◊ 2011-10-03 19:25	Welcome back!
m.pfaffeneder ◊ 2011-10-03 20:02	Servus Ingo!
Gomselmash11 ◊ 2011-10-03 22:04	Welcome back.
Ingo ◊ 2011-10-06 23:43	@kudos, m.pfaffeneder, Gomsel: @dsl: I'm disconsolate, but I haven't catched any sight specially for you there. No Minxes, no Imps. Only spotted, but not photgraphed: an early (full aluminium grille) Rover 2000, a Spitfire MkI and one Chrysler/Hillman Avenger. Plus a few Jaguar XJ-S, some in running, some in wreck-condition. Maybe you have an use for this subject. A copy has to be placed in my boss'es office. @DynaMike: sorry, nothing French, except one single 2 CV. Nothing from the times of a remarkable French export to Canada has survived. @Nighrider: only one Lada. An early 90ies Niva in olive-green. Oh, before I forget: was the Austin Metro sold in CDN? I think, if spotted a glimpse of one Metro-wreck in the cluttered backyard of a hoarder's house.
dsl ◊ 2011-10-07 01:57	ingo wrote @dsl: I'm disconsolate, but I haven't catched any sight specially for you there. No Minxes, no Imps... spotted .. one Chrysler/Hillman Avenger..... was the Austin Metro sold in CDN? I think .. spotted a glimpse of one Metro-wreck. Thanks for being alert. I don't really know about CDN exports, but they seem to have received some 70s UK cars which weren't sold in US such as Cortina Mk3, including a special US Federal-like bumper version in 73-74. Late 50s Vauxhal Victors were sold there as well (under a Pontiac name??), and I think some 1970s Minis with funny bumpers - we've probably got a few. Imps, Minxes [Arrow-type] and Avengers were sold in US under various names so CDN would be possible/probable. Metro would be a bit of a surprise - did CDN require special bumpers and emissions by the 1980s?? Neither adaptation would have been easy for the Metro, although some MG Metro 6R4 rally cars were sold to CDN, but presumably as non-road competition specials, and there was a plan to sell a batch of Ford RS200 in CDN under what I assume was a similar loophole. As CDN was part of the Commonwealth there would have been better reduced import tariffs than for selling in US - the mirror of previous discussions explaining why some "US" cars in UK, Aus etc were actually Canadian-made, and why "US" V8 engines for Jensen, Bristol etc actually came from Canada. -- Last edit: 2011-10-07 02:00:02
Ingo ◊ 2012-02-02 16:07	Something black-and white leuchtorange - and mine since 5 minutes Link to "www.ebay.de"

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