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    First Post - Follow Up on the Lost Porsche

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    • mtdrift
      mtdrift last edited by mtdrift

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      Greetings to the Hyphen.

      Here's an experimental first post, and a follow up on my search for a color code for my grandparents' 356A.

      https://oppositelock.kinja.com/a-parting-gift-and-one-last-plea-for-help-i-know-oppo-1845647938

      My grandmother thinks she may have tracked down some paperwork over the weekend related to the import of the car - they shipped it back home to Oregon in 1963 or 1964 (there's some confusion on this). I'm hoping there will be a chassis code or a VIN buried in there. We'll see.

      We've definitely landed on Aquamarine Blue Metallic on the color, 5607.

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      I'll keep a steady drip of info on this super cool car as it comes in. I'm planning to write something big about it, too.

      Here's a Tatra found in the same trove of slides.

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      Land Rover Masochist.

      1992 Defender 110 200Tdi
      1995 Range Rover Classic
      1971 VW Beetle

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      • ClassicDatsunDebate
        ClassicDatsunDebate last edited by

        Cool shots and welcome!

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        • mtdrift
          mtdrift @ClassicDatsunDebate last edited by

          @classicdatsundebate Thanks! I'm over the moon with this group of slides - there are hundreds of them - and not just the ones with the Porsche, it's an amazing documentary of Europe at a pretty interesting time in history. They owned a "submarine hatch" VW Westfalia for a while, too, after they sold the Porsche.

          Land Rover Masochist.

          1992 Defender 110 200Tdi
          1995 Range Rover Classic
          1971 VW Beetle

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          • ClassicDatsunDebate
            ClassicDatsunDebate last edited by

            Looking forward to seeing more of them.

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            • RallyDarkstrike
              RallyDarkstrike last edited by

              @mtdrift Oh wow, considering they are one of my dream cars and were rare to begin with even in their own time, seeing an old Tatra just 'in a picture' (as stupid as that sounds) just feels......weird, haha! Awesome stuff, will be following this! 😄

              '09 Hyundai Accent | Loves 2-cyl FIATs, old Euro, Eastern Bloc & kei cars!

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              • mtdrift
                mtdrift @RallyDarkstrike last edited by

                @rallydarkstrike Yeah, clearly my grandfather was intentionally trying to photograph the Tatra (he was a car nut, after all). Which is saying something because he obviously was just shooting from the hip here as it drove by, and he wouldn't have known if he captured it or not until he developed the (very expensive) color film later on. I think this was taken in Sarajevo in 1957, but we're trying to confirm that.

                Land Rover Masochist.

                1992 Defender 110 200Tdi
                1995 Range Rover Classic
                1971 VW Beetle

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                • RallyDarkstrike
                  RallyDarkstrike @mtdrift last edited by

                  @mtdrift said in First Post - Follow Up on the Lost Porsche:

                  @rallydarkstrike Yeah, clearly my grandfather was intentionally trying to photograph the Tatra (he was a car nut, after all). Which is saying something because he obviously was just shooting from the hip here as it drove by, and he wouldn't have known if he captured it or not until he developed the (very expensive) color film later on. I think this was taken in Sarajevo in 1957, but we're trying to confirm that.

                  He was an Oppo before his time 🙂

                  '09 Hyundai Accent | Loves 2-cyl FIATs, old Euro, Eastern Bloc & kei cars!

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                  • mtdrift
                    mtdrift last edited by

                    He would have been down in the shit on Oppo for sure.

                    Land Rover Masochist.

                    1992 Defender 110 200Tdi
                    1995 Range Rover Classic
                    1971 VW Beetle

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                    • Superdave847
                      Superdave847 @mtdrift last edited by

                      @mtdrift Damn, that’s perfect. That car in parts is easily worth $300k these days.

                      Current:
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                      • mtdrift
                        mtdrift last edited by

                        Its fate will make you cry - more on that in later posts...

                        Land Rover Masochist.

                        1992 Defender 110 200Tdi
                        1995 Range Rover Classic
                        1971 VW Beetle

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                        • Jordan
                          Jordan last edited by

                          I'm glad you got that figured out, as I thought it definitely looked more Aquamarine.

                          2003 Corvette Z06 / 1995 4Runner SR5 3.Slow/shame

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                          • Superdave847
                            Superdave847 @mtdrift last edited by

                            @mtdrift I'm already clenching my buttocks.

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                            • Superdave847
                              Superdave847 last edited by

                              I hope @Stef-Schrader Is seeing these pictures because, damn, nice Parshë.

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                              • Stef Schrader
                                Stef Schrader last edited by Stef Schrader

                                this is excellent parsh

                                (Also, TIL your Beetle is the same year as my 411!)

                                World's Least Employable Zündapp Janus Stan

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