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Dave, Why I said I thought it was "tacky" to fudge over their brochure illustrations with an air brush or some other device they used in those days before Adobe Photo Shop etc is that: (1) it reminds me of the bad old days of the USSR when similar techniques were used to distort photographs of historical importance such as deleting a party official no longer in favour and (2) I like to examine the details of photos in order to date a particular model or note features about it. The brochure which Everett Barnes refered to is typical in that the photo is useless to me because the actual car in the photo is a German model but with only the script on the back changed from "1600TL" to "1600TS". The rest of the features are German and anyone with a sense of the detailed changes over the years would assume therefore from the picture that Australian models had disc brakes. I know the technical text later on says they had only drum brakes but that is not what the cover picture shows. The picture is untrue in that it makes out that it shows an Australian model when it doesn't.. (3)in many cases where they have painted in steering wheels on the right hand side or painted in a fuel filler flap it has been done by a sloppy artist and looks distorted and, of course, the artist sometimes also forgets to rearrange something else like windscreen wipers in the wrong direction - basically it cheapens the brochure. If they went to the expense of producing glossy colour brochures with quality paper, surely they could have retaken some of the photos or simply told us that they've used left hand drive cars in some of the photos or that they've used photos of last year's model or of a model for another market. Instead, they must have assumed all customers were little old ladies who knew nothing about VWs. (Actually, even my own 84 year-old mother has noticed some of these tacky changes to VW brochures.) Regards Simon Glen Toowoomba, Australia. P.S. Dave I'm sorry you will have received two copies of this message. I forgot to change the address before sending it. Dave Hall wrote: > They were at their worst > > with brochures for the British market - they had steering wheels > > painted in on the right hand side and, when they used mirror > > images, they used to have fuel filler flaps painted out and painted > > in on the other side. It was really tacky. > > Why is that tacky, Simon? I think it's incredible they bothered; on two > apparently identical brochures, one in English and the other in German, it's > amazing the lengths they have gone to, all for us. More recently they just > say that some illustrations may show a LHD image and specifications may > vary. > > Dave. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe