1973 Volkswagen K70 [Typ 48]
1973 Volkswagen K70 [Typ 48] in Drakarna över Helsingfors, Movie, 2001
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![1973 Volkswagen K70 [Typ 48]](/i394834.jpg)
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◊ 2011-04-28 20:39 |
Something for Internet Movie K70 Database lover .gif ";)") |
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◊ 2011-04-28 20:39 |
@ingo: A K70 in Finland for you. .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2011-04-28 20:44 |
I thought Ingo might appreciate this  The K70 seemed to be parked at every street corner: /vehicle_394844-SAAB-96-V4.html and /vehicle_394839-Ford-Cortina-1965.html |
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◊ 2011-04-28 20:46 |
ingo probably knows who owns it. |
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◊ 2011-04-28 20:57 |
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◊ 2011-04-28 21:22 |
 As you can see the taillights on the other pics, it's easly to identify as an early 1973 MY, built between August and November 1972 (facelifted body, but still with the costlier BOSCH-taillights). @tonkatracker: no kidding, I'll ask our Finnish member about that. Our universe is very very small.  P.S. The colour is not original. It looks like silbermetallic, as it's not blue enough for marathonmetallic, a colour, which was not in the 1973 rangfe any more. -- Last edit: 2011-04-28 22:11:31 |
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◊ 2011-04-28 21:31 |
Is that the one with the chrome divison insert on the taillight lens? |
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◊ 2011-04-28 21:42 |
Yes, from outside only to identify by this chrome-stripe. The following ULO-lamps were cheaper made with less parts ad cheaper material. One of the several tries of VW, to press down the production costs. Sorry for now, but I cannot show a demonstration pic  Though every K 70-freak usually has dozens of taillamps lying around, because both versions are nearly never defect, I don't have any any more. I gave all to our spare-parts-man for those, who maybe need some. And for getting my cellar clear, as this stuff had blockaded my space since 20 years - without I ever had any use for one. |
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◊ 2011-04-28 21:45 |
P.S. What is mounted on the grille or the bumper, this little metallen looking part over the bumper-rubber? An extra horn or just a badge of a automobile-club or so? |
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◊ 2011-04-28 21:47 |
Probably it is automobile club badge, after all this one is at least 28 years old and in good shape at the time of filming  |
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◊ 2011-04-28 21:52 |
Oh, or maybe the plug for this Scandinavian pre-heater? This electrical plug for activating this immersion-heater-like cooling-water-warmer. Many Scandinavian parking-lots have an electric connection for that. It's easy to mount, as my Swedish friend has shown me. You just have to pull off one of these anti-frost-shives of the engine-block and mount the heater in the hole. -- Last edit: 2011-04-28 21:54:22 |
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◊ 2011-04-28 22:14 |
Ah thanks, it's the brochure for the 1974 MY. It's one of the two Finnish brochures, which I own. Very strange, that it was forgotten to name the upholstery- and paintwork-colours. I've seen that only at this 1974-Finland-brochure. In the 1973-version (my other Finnish example) the body-colours are named, but not the upholsteries.But anyways it's a perfect example of the disgusting cobblework, Volkswagen has made in their sales brochures in the 70ies (and later on, too)  For changes at new model years and facelifts weren't new photos made - they were handmade retouched with copying pencils. Worst! |
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◊ 2011-04-28 22:20 |
Interesting... I imagine it would be much easier (and cheaper...) to take some new photos rather than use a pencil and try to make it realistic -- Last edit: 2011-04-28 22:21:57 |
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◊ 2011-04-28 22:24 |
Hah, forget it. The brochures for the UK and other RHD-markets became even worse! You will not find any real RHD-car there - they only have mirrored the existing pics  |
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◊ 2011-04-28 22:52 |
At least I know there is no such as factory RHD K70 ever made. If I see one like that, I would say it must been aftermarket conversion. |
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◊ 2011-04-28 23:07 |
There are some UK K70 brochures on e-bay currently. Link to "cgi.ebay.co.uk" Link to "cgi.ebay.co.uk" Link to "cgi.ebay.co.uk" |
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◊ 2011-04-28 23:18 |
 I'm referring about the brochures. The K 70 itself was officially made as RHD-version, since November 1971 until end of 1974. Sure, it ws cobblework, as they took a ready LHD-car and have constructed the RHD-version on this base, so it wasn't an own construction, but this is still the usual way at Continental-European car-makers. But it was regularly produced by VW. We have one at IMCDB: /vehicle_181997-Volkswagen-K70-Typ-48-1973.html Sure, in the brochures you will not find any pic of the RHD-pecularities. But it's the same with other VW-RHD-brochures from the 70ies, too. In one 80ies-brochure for a Netherlands-specific car, a Van-version of the Golf II, which wasn't sold here, they made it "Dutch as Dutch can be" - with colouring the regular WOB-plate (for Wolfsburg) in yellow... |
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◊ 2011-04-28 23:23 |
@Sandie: thanks for the tips, but my collection is well-sorted with UK-brochures Except one -maybe the only ever made one- real UK-brochure with a real UK-car (made by the importer or even a single dealer), of which I have seen only one time one pic - at eBay I've tried to keep pace, but finally the price was climbing unbearable high Anyways, not a big drama. My hope are considerate fellows in the UK, who keeps my spleen in their brain's backyard...  |
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◊ 2011-04-29 02:18 |
Oh, okay. I think I misunderstand myself with the RHD K70 and the brochures Yes, they designed the brochures cheaply as possible to make it marketable. I have seen some advertising pictures really cobbled up |
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◊ 2011-04-29 11:45 |
@Deltagolf:  Is the plate somewhere completely visible? If yes, my Finnish friend could find out the details. Black plates starting with "M", are "museum-plates", as he wrote me.Btw. His own K 70 appeared in this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372461/ |
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◊ 2011-04-29 12:50 |
Sorry, the numbers on the plate are never shown I read on some forum that there are less than 10 K70:s with museum plates in Finland, and probably the amount was even smaller in 2001. I could maybe try to find that movie in the library on Monday, and post the cars on IMCDb. |
