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I suspect a little airbrushing. Funny they would only choose to retouch the beak though. Doyle Dane Bernbach must not have had a '66 available for the photo shoot when the ad was in production, which I'd guess was in early 1965. It wonder what date the ad originally ran? Anyway, the interesting thing is that VWoA originally sold the Squareback as the "Squareback Sedan", probably reinforce the "outside the box" image that DDB's advertising campaign had helped create for VW in the US, and also to differentiate it from the "VW Station Wagon", which is what the microbus was called here back then. If you think about it the name was a huge marketing risk, but also pretty sophisticated by mid-60s advertising standards. I think they dropped the "Sedan" part by 1968. Scott 62 343, 65 361 Everett Barnes wrote: > The hubcaps/trim rings are 64-65 but the long beak looks like '66. No side > markers. Looks like the 64-65 interior with the platic trim on top of the > door panels. ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/