Thanks! iMovie - with text added from After Effects.

pre67vw wrote:

Very good little film.

How did you make the part with the pen drawing the logo? Some kind of Aardman animation style thing where you spent six months of your waking hours devoted entirely to drawing a bit and taking a picture and so on?

JD wrote:

Interesting that neither the VW38 or RT are even in the film...?

But for the record, the VW38 is painted in the correct nitro-cellulose paint - a lot of extra work but something they are rightly very proud of

pre67vw wrote:

By all accounts, Volkswagen has rather a lot to sort out regarding their VW38 if the Grundmann's is anything to go by.:shock:

However, I thought that they were finished in gloss paint though. What does anyone make of these running boards. :?

Rattletrap wrote:

I was told that VW's VW38 was 'restored' by VW back in the 50s and rather than make sure it was correct they simply used parts from the production line (even using a new shell).

pre67vw wrote:

Goodness, just how much of that is from 1938 then…:shock:

Rattletrap wrote:

That's a strange exhaust in the picture. :?

Rattletrap wrote:

Old-speed... :thumbup:

pre67vw wrote:

Not as much as #6... :wink:

pre67vw wrote:

The car in the Volkswagen museum is a type 38 - built by Porsche. In the early 1940s - during the war, Volkswagen used it for testing wood Gas and modified the body.

Thats the reason why it survived the war. In the early 1950s, the car was rebuilt back as its design of 1938 - but they used for the restauration components of different years.

In the late 1990s, the car was restaured again by Oliver Herbolzheimer and he tried to give it back the original looks of 1938

So why was the body thrown-away.:?

I presume back then it wasn't so important to have originality and so replaced the body from the production line rather than go to the trouble of repairing the original.

Rattletrap wrote:

I guess so. In the picture you posted it looks like it has rounded corners on the bonnet, which means the front scuttle area must be wrong at least - which is part of the body and supports the body change story.

That must be an older photo, I think it looks closer now...

pre67vw wrote:

Anything would be better than the horror of an early Beetle in the Porsche museum.

JD wrote:

Interesting that neither the VW38 or RT are even in the film...?

But for the record, the VW38 is painted in the correct nitro-cellulose paint - a lot of extra work but something they are rightly very proud of

pre67vw wrote:

Its clear from the image below and the image on page 3 of this thread that the VW38 was a shiny car, so why have the Grundmann's used such a paint.:?

Rattletrap wrote:

Because it is more than obvious looking at the car in final finish,they have chosen exactly the right product to use.The finish is perfect for the car and they have got it 100% right.

'50 Karmann wrote:

I'd always though that nitro-cellulose paint did not have a really deep shine.

Rattletrap wrote:

?? Celly paint is the one to use for a shiney finish. Any of the modern stuff just looks plasticy.

JD wrote:

I'd always though that nitro-cellulose paint did not have a really deep shine.

Rattletrap wrote: