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cyclonefence

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14. Look at those whitewalls!

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #10)

Tue May 29, 2018, 05:21 PM

May 2018

Mine was red, needing a lot of rubbing compound to bring it to the shine your car had. Now I remember those sunroofs--and I see your car had a Wolfsberg crest? I thought 1954 was the last year for that.

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