According to the information with the photo, all of the vehicles have the large front signal lamps that date them to being manufactured in the 1962 to ’67 period. Courtesy of The Old Motor
The pic in the 'Wagons in vintage street scenes' forum with this guy and the Bug with the fabric sunroof, I'd say both pics were staged.
Wonder how many books of S&H green stamps it took to get a VW Van. I think you’re on to something. Is that a ‘66 Plymouth wagon in the background?
I was thinking they were spending their stamp books in the liquor store, and needed that many vans for all the cheap booze they were getting.
There you go. They should introduce difficult to counterfeit Green Stamps again, as a substitute for fiat currency. Backing them up with gold, you can then take S&H books all over the world and then cash them out like travelers' checques in countries starting to back up their currencies with gold again.
Can Apple stamps be far away? Damn Nixon taking us off the Gold Standard. I haven’t heard any of these politicians talking about free wheelbarrows to haul around the currency we’ll need when everything’s free.
Reminds me of a story from high school Euro History: In the days after the Great War, when Germany was forced to pay reparations for starting the war, those reparations cause wildly unchecked inflation in its economy. So the example given was a woman who was heading to market with a laundry basket. I can't exactly remember the circumstances, but the woman was robbed of the basket, leaving all the Weimar Republic TP lying on the sidewalk.
I've heard the same story Andrew, except in the version I remember, it was a wheelbarrow that was used to haul the marcs.
I've heard that one myself, but my history teacher, Mr. Howgate (who just passed away a few months ago), learned the story from a woman whose mother was the one robbed, as her mother washeading to a launderer's; the basket was for her laundry. I've never read any story involving a wheelbarrow in a text book, and I've read about the Weimar Republic in three separate textbooks.
This is an East German "Barkas" which was initially powered by the 2-cycle 3-banger used by Wartburg and was originally designed by Auto-Union (the ragtop pictured in the bottom photo), before the factory fell into the hands of Soviet occupation. Not long before production ended, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the last examples had discontinued the outdated engine, in favor of the 1000 cc Volkswagen in-line four
