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Old 05-29-2017, 02:59 PM   #206 (permalink)
ChopStix
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Not to mention the starry sky in the daytime! Actually, in that era photographs had to be hand-retouched to be reproducable on the printing presses of the time.
No that is a rock face in the background as you can see shadows on it.

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Fingie — People in the 50s and 60s did buy them as a second family car. Or was that the joke?
I think he meant the fins. But actually his joke might have been a truth, as American's were all about the fins. So maybe they would have bought more V-dub's had they had the fins. I know I can't not gawk at a car with fins at car shows!

I wonder which one looks better!

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