{"id":1637,"date":"2018-12-20T22:36:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2018-12-21T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:36:49","slug":"one-for-the-real-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/?p=1637","title":{"rendered":"One for the real nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dear VW-friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

last week I shared the following new picture of my little collection of historical Barndoor pics with some BD-freaks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The vent wing proofs this Samba is build before end of 1952, the VW logo confirms it\u00b4s even a 1951, the license plate tells the Bus is at home in D\u00fcsseldorf<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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In my eyes\nthis picture is very interesting in many aspects. First, it shows a\none-tone-color Samba. I know the VW books clearly say that there was just one\nsingle-tone color for Barndoor Sambas: stone grey (which is a kind of dark\ngrey). But this Samba here has a very bright color, which is for not stone\ngrey! Sure, it could be resprayed, but the old black German license plate, this\n\u00b451 shows, were replaced in 1956 by the well-known white DIN-plates. So this\npicture was taken between 1951 and 1956, that\u00b4s for sure. I wouldn\u00b4t respray a\nfive year old car, would you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\npersonally believe this Samba wasn\u00b4t older than two years in this picture,\nbecause the Bus looks quite new, maybe it was just brand new. Just have a look\non the people! The guy in the black suit seems to be the proud owner, presenting\nhis new vehicle to his friends and neighbors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\nsomething else made me finally sure that this is a brand new Samba. It\u00b4s quite\nweird! When I shared the picture Julian Hunt wrote me: \u201cTwo things I noticed about the (lovely) picture: The\nbadge doesn’t look quite right which could just be the reflections, and the\nwipers are black, not silver……\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK, I guess the\nbadge is just right for a \u00b451, dear Julian, it\u00b4s the badge with the open gap\nbetween the \u201cV\u201d and the \u201cW\u201d. But the black wipers made me thinking! A look in\nthe VW spare parts book of March 1951 confirms there were chromed and black\nwipers. Black for type 21A (panel van) and type 23A (kombi), chromed for type\n22A (micro bus). The \u00b454 spare parts book says the same and adds that also the\nSamba had chromed wiper blades. So, is the \u00b451 Samba equipped wrongly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was kind of frustrated, cause I already have a very nice set of black wiper blades for my Samba at hand and accepting they might be wrong was a little pain. So, just to be sure I grabbed my other Samba pictures and discovered a little mystery! Have a look at this beautiful picture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sealing wax red, chestnut brown and a white roof: this beauty is another \u00b451 Samba! The license plate says: “I am at home in Darmstadt”, the owner says:”Hopefully she will say ‘yes!'”<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Black wiper blades again and again a \u00b451 Samba which looks as new! OK, you could say, a wiper blade is easy to change and could be worn out in just one winter. But the clamping bracket is good for at least ten years! And it is black also on the bright one tone Samba and the three color one above! So, could it be that the very first Sambas were generally equipped with black wiper blades and black clamping brackets? It seems so, have a look on the next picture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cover of this company-internal magazine shows a prototype Samba in the very first IAA (International Automobile Exhibition) in Frankfurt, April 1951<\/em><\/strong>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We do have the\nfinal proof here, haven\u00b4t we? Maybe it is related to the fact that they build\nup the very first Sambas at least up to 1952 in the factory\u00b4s prototype department,\nbut to be honest, I don\u00b4t have a real clue why the factory decided to equip the\nfirst \u00b451 Sambas with black blades and brackets while chromed ones were at hand\nto equip the stock micro bus right from the start some months before Samba\ndebuted. The following pictures of a 1950 micro bus confirm that the factory\nhad chromed blades back in these days! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Have a look on the roof gutter! This is an early 1950 Micro Bus, must be one of the very first ones they ever build! The license tells this type 22A was based in Gelnhausen, Hessen (near Frankfurt)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You better believe, the owner of this Micro Bus had a very good reason not the choose a beetle but a bus! <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Daddy must have been kind of rich to purchase such a vehicle in spring 1950! Look how happy the kids, the wife and even grandma are with the new car! <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This Micro Bus had a hard life! You can see the first dents in the bumper and isn\u00b4t the left headlight smashed? But still daddy seems to be happy. If he would have stored away the Bus after its regular life his kids or grandsons would be happy AND rich today, but I guess the Bus went to junk decades ago. Or did daddy dumped it in the forest and we just have to find as my Samba? Who knows…..<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I know the spare parts books say all Sambas had chromed blades, but the pictures above proof it\u00b4s wrong, at least when it comes to \u00b451 Sambas. Now before you suspect the spare parts book might be simply wrong, let me teach you different. Have a look here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OK this is a \u00b456, \u00b457 or \u00b458, but anyway it got clearly chromed blades and clamp brackets. (Hey, lokale Bus-Fans, wei\u00df einer wo dieser Ahrweiler Samba aufgenommen wurde? Maarten?) <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Don\u00b4t we have a\nwonderful hobby? Let them call us freaks, nerds or even idiots, but VW science\ndoesn\u00b4t hurt anyone, neither makes it the world a worse place, I guess it\u00b4s\njust the opposite!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florian<\/p>\n

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Dear VW-friends, last week I shared the following new picture of my little collection of historical Barndoor pics with some BD-freaks: In my eyes this picture is very interesting in many aspects. First, it shows a one-tone-color Samba. I know the VW books clearly say that there was just one single-tone color for Barndoor Sambas: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}