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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Eighty-one: A city portrait – impressions of Cuenca, Ecuador > Where old VW’s go to die, Cuenca, Ecuador, 2011
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15-SEP-2011

Where old VW’s go to die, Cuenca, Ecuador, 2011

People seem to keep their cars forever in Ecuador, particularly old European models. I found this trio of old Volkswagens lingering in a neighborhood scrap yard – amazingly sporting the three primary colors of yellow, blue, and red. The years in the Andes have not been kind to them, but here they are, still hanging around, waiting to die.

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Phil Douglis24-Jan-2013 16:50
Thanks, Bob. I guess that is why there are still so many of these vintage cars on the roads of the world. I loved the evocative wear and tear on those bodies -- it speaks of hard use and hard places. It is nice to to know that even these battered machines can be rather easily reborn.
bob smith 24-Jan-2013 15:22
the thing about classic vw is, they rebuild very easy and cost effective.
Phil Douglis03-Nov-2011 22:53
Yours and everyone else's, it seems.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)02-Nov-2011 23:42
So this is where my 1964 VW wound up!!
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