Chocolate Beetle

This very customized Volkswagen Beetle with a Sunroof may be circa 1962.  It keeps its classic lines while adding many features.  One is the dark chocolate metallic paint.

Low to the ground

The windshield opens out.

Hood and front details

A closer look at the windshield and how it is held in place.   The windshield wipers are removed to allow the glass to swing forward.  The side mirrors are mounted way in front.

Just as low from the left side

The view of the left side shows just how low this Bug is at rest.  The front windshield and the two side rear windows open out.  The rear "hood" is opened to get more air to the air cooled engine.

Full on frontal view

The front view gives a taste of the dark chocolate color.  Maybe that is a dark roast coffee?

Full on rear view

What this Bug looks like as it pulls away from you.  n.b., the license plate is purposedly blanked out.

Morning dewed

Big drops on small web

The heavy morning dew highlights the grass spider (genus Agelenopsis) spider web seen in the grass beneath our feet.

Wheelless vehicles

 

Prototipo Topolino

A prototype of the Fiat Topolino "senza ruote".  The model year is approx. mid-1950s.

 

 

The Cadillac Motor Car Division of the US auto maker General Motors Corporation investigated wheel-less cars.   This concept ad for the 1955 model year was not used.

 

Cadillac Series Sixty Special concept car

Noted:  the other models in the ad still have wheels.

 

Waiting for a ride

 

Going up the country!

 

After their exciting visit to the Big City, these potted plants sit in the shade, waiting for their ride back to the farm.

 

 

 

Security envelope ambulances

 

organizational pattern

 

This security envelope pattern features utility trucks; the side of the truck has a circle with a cross in it - ambulances.  The pattern is skewed slightly and the images are flipped at the fold.  

 

 

Security envelope dashes

 

Sprinkle them all over

 

This envelope security pattern features sprinkles all over.  Up close, they look like a mix of em and en dashes.

 

 

 

Curvy and windy

 

Arrow = up

This curved and winding  staircase is presented as a relaxed view 3d stereograph.

 

n.b., the mirror staircase of this one is on the other side of this entry way to the building.