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◊ 2011-03-19 11:00 |
Another one:![[Image: vlcsnap2011031908h00m13.3840.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is340/vlcsnap2011031908h00m13.3840.jpg) |
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◊ 2011-03-19 12:09 |
....perhaps a '73. Let's wait for Ingo, The K70 specialist...! |
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◊ 2011-03-19 12:32 |
The main one also seems to be a K70 taxi, by the colour and the taxi sign holding bar. I remember Ingo said a few German taxis were K70s, and this image proves it. Great find .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2011-03-19 13:17 |
The only time I've ever ridden in a K70 was 25+ years ago on Rousay, a small Orkney island off Scotland, when a local was using their own K70 as the island taxi. No special fittings, I remember it as a mid-blue/green with yellow/tan interior, 4 headlights and lots of space in the front. Chatted to the owner about his unusual choice and remember him saying it was cheap because no-one knew what it was but he was dreading problems due to lack of spares, so doubted if he could run it for long before having to scrap it. I assume it died on the island - never saw it again on any of several return visits. "Island cars" is shorthand in local newspaper adverts for a car in poor condition which could chug around a little island for a few months before something terminal happens or it becomes uneconomic to repair, but this K70 seemed in better condition than the usual Rousay traffic. Rousay is only 6 miles long with only one real road and has no police station, so attitudes to roadworthiness were more "relaxed" than normal. |
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◊ 2011-03-20 09:07 |
 Great, something very hyper-rare  Yes, both are 1973+ K 70 L versions, to identify by the double round front lamps, the modified front (should have been more aerodynamical) nd no vents in the C-pillar any more. |
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◊ 2011-03-20 09:39 |
@Lateef: only a very very few. One K 70-taxi (but later converted) has survived. It ran in Berlin and is since over 10 years in the K 70-collection of my friend Joseph from Luxemburg: http://www.k70-club.de/images/pdf/motor_klassik_aus81998s.pdf My newest information are 50 K 70. Plus 35 Range Rover 1st gen, he collects, too. And a dozen or so Eicher-tractors. I must admit, that the German taxi-brochure is one of the few single items, which are still missing in my literature collection. Very embarrassing, yes. It was a 12 sheet-leaflet from 1973 fore the taxi-versions of the K 70, the T2b Bus and the 412 Sedan. But sooner or later I'll get it. As everything else, which I got until now. But I own the even rarer Swedish K 70-taxi-brochure @dsl: my former, now retired family doctor, owner of ![[Image: img3725w.2808.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is140/img3725w.2808.jpg) has seen at that times annother K 70 on a Scottish island, on the Outher Hebrides. He still remembers it, because it was so horribly rusted, that you could the the passenger's feet from outside - but it still ran And annother anecdote about K 70 in Scotland from me .gif ";)") It happened at our summer vacations in 2001. I drove relaxed (no, no granddaddy-like smoothly  ) northwards on the A68, when I saw a brand new big Alfa Romeo, passing the other cars behind me in a really crazy way. But then he stayed behind me, for many miles. Really irritating. Then I drove on the "Scottish Border"-viewpoint, and he followed. An older couple get off and the gentleman went to me, really with tears in his eyes "Oh, a K 70! I'm so happy, that I can see one again aftr so many years! We had also one, back in the 70ies, and it was our best car ever! Even when we had sold it with 180.000 mls, it was still our best car! This crappy junk *showing with one thumb over the shoulder to the brand new Alfa* I'm only driving - but I don't enjoy them. Never as I did with my K 70" This was our first experience with a Scotsman on Scottish ground  |
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◊ 2011-03-20 09:41 |
 to Britain. Maybe some of the gentlemen around here can help me a bit with my concern Link to "forum.imcdb.org" It would be very appreciated |
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◊ 2011-03-20 14:45 |
See Link to "www.direct.gov.uk" for rules and procedures. |
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◊ 2011-03-22 18:43 |
 Thanks for the link, but it seems, that nothing fit's to me. Either the rules are for UK-residents and/or for non-EU-countries. Hmmm, maybe I should really try to make an arrangement with the seller, that I can use the original registration for going back.Uuuh, annother question for the gentlemen around here which a knowledge about modern car-technology: What's up with the Xenon-lamps? Do they have to be changed completely from RHD to LHD? This would be f.cking expensive, they cost around 1000 €. Or is it possible just to change the lenses? |
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◊ 2011-03-22 18:47 |
You can adjust the beam manually on some cars. On others a dealer will have to do it. |
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◊ 2011-03-22 18:53 |
Not, that I have to take this patent, I've seen at a 2nd gen UK-Zafira on a ferry from England to Holland. It had a kind of plastic lenses on the lamps, mounted with a click-holder on them. It was an original Vauxhall-parts due it's logo. |
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◊ 2011-03-22 19:05 |
"Früher war alles besser!" When I went to England in 1998 with my 1956 Citroën 2CV AZL (made in Belgium), all cars on the ferry got stickers on their headlights, except my 2CV because it still had symmetrical light beams |
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◊ 2011-03-22 19:18 |
A Dutch K 70-friend once have said (he has a 1971-model with the horrible gloomy square Bilux-lamps): "Recently I drove the whole day accidentally with the high beam-lamps on - noone from the opposite direction gave me a lamp-flasher" |
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◊ 2011-03-22 19:38 |
Email DVLA through https://emaildvla.direct.gov.uk/emaildvla/cegemail/directgov/en/vehicle_3.html or http://www.direct.gov.uk/emaildvla and ask them your questions. Something like "Dear Mr Faceless Bureaucrat, I am the Great Ingo from Germany and want to buy a car in Britain, fill the boot with boxes of Marmite and drive it home to Germany. What steps do I need to take to do this purchase and permanent export in terms of tax, insurance and registrations? Lots of love Ingo" should work fine. |
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◊ 2011-03-22 20:14 |
We should definately need some device as the "I like"-button on facebook.... |
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◊ 2011-03-23 13:58 |
Sorry dsl, but you are too late. The most potential taker of such things is slightly indisposed at the time http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/libya/rabta.htm  |
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◊ 2011-03-23 14:03 |
It sounds really honest, compared with the utterances, I'm used to do in my plate-collector-forum about his German colleagues  Though there are some thousands in some hundreds of local authorities in Germany, I've really the worst opinion about them (caused by the big problems, they usually make, when you want to save an ancient plate-number  ) |
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