Tonight, I found some of my old photos from when I were a lad, so I scanned a few of them in. Most of them were my cars, but there's a few others thrown in for good measure and a couple of old show pics..

151MMP. Very early 'big window' '58 RHD UK car (originally Agave Green). This had more history with it than any other car I have ever owned. A couple of years before I got my hands on it, somebody acquired it from the original owner, lowered it and painted it Bahama Blue. Really nice car though...


54 matching numbers Oval that came from Northern Sweden. Super-original with lovely interior. It had rare Swedish 'double heater channels' fitted from new.



1960 RHD Beetle 3303VW, found in a garage...



1953 Oval rotting away in somebody's front garden...


My first Beetle. Daily driver for 3 years or so, I clocked up so many miles in that car...


7682FM RHD '64 Steel Sunroof Beetle. I bought this for the princely sum of £60. Super-rare RHD steel sunroof car. Here I am stripping it down...


9375HA RHD '64 Beetle. Barn-find. I got this one back on the road and sold it to a friend in 1998. He took it off the road in 2000 and has been restoring it ever since (Cal Looker)...


KDX843 RHD '60 Beetle...


UBH925 RHD '54 Oval. Where is it now??..

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Peppercorn 1996. Owen selling two Swedish Splits, one a sunroof car. I drooled over this, but in my wildest dreams I could have never afforded the asking price (which was about £5000). Those were the days!...


Bewl Water 1997. Another sunroof Split from Owen...


Peppercorn 1999, original RHD Oval Sunroof. Anybody know where it is now?

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Nice original '51 in Brighton...

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Nice pics Rich, is the last one Omars car ? and do you have any more info on the Swedish double heater channels, I'm not sure I've ever seen them ?

Cheers
Kev

I know Sweden had oil heaters in the sump but the double heater channels i have never herd of them ( but thats not saying much :roll: ) Any one got any photos to put up ??? Was it that thay were duble skinned or something?



Andy W

Hi Kev,

I don't think the spilt is Omar's, I think his was green when he bought it (but I could be wrong).

The double heater channels were an accessory for cold climates. It was an extra, smaller channel that mounted on top of the heater channel and ducted more heat up the screen (from what I can remember). I will see if I took any detailed pics. There was a thread on thesamba about it years ago, but I can't find the thread now.

Rich.

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Great thread Rich! Always cool to see old pics :thumbup:

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Thanks Rich. The photos really brought back some memories.

The line up at Peppercorn was one of the Hampshire VW Owners clubs finest moments. We travelled in convoy.

The brown split was owned by Laurence Downer and the green oval is the car that Mike Tudor recently put a sunroof in and changed the colour to brown. Next is Robin Allens split then Mike Webbers split then Roger Pascoes oval then Dave Cantles split and lastly Martin Jewells Cabrio.

I think thats correct......................memory plays tricks you know.