For some reason, Vern's ad here: http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=3969.msg34675#msg34675 doesn't show his pictures on my computer anymore. Vern, do you still have those pics on file? If so, would you be so kind as to post them again for us and give us a dissertation on the versions that were used by KONI. Anyone else with original examples, please feel free to elaborate. TIA!
Quote from: NC TRACKRAT on July 05, 2021, 12:48:44 PM
For some reason, Vern's ad here: http://www.saacforum.com/index.php?topic=3969.msg34675#msg34675 doesn't show his pictures on my computer anymore. Vern, do you still have those pics on file? If so, would you be so kind as to post them again for us and give us a dissertation on the versions that were used by KONI. Anyone else with original examples, please feel free to elaborate. TIA!
The easy way to tell a vintage brochure is if the illustration inside has the old style winged Koni logo and dome shape nut caps or not. ;) There are variations within the time period but all of the early versions have those characteristics in common. The logo in the illustration changed to the newer style in the late 60's.
Here are the pictures posted in that thread...they are showing up on my browser so Ive saved and attached them below..hopefully they show up!
As bob said, the earlier brochures have the earlier "winged" Koni logo on the shocks as opposed to the triangular logos which came about in the later 60s and used into the 70s-80s and up to current day.
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3lG-DY8vMMjwbx_urpAYl39ywQoW66hK4ly69IyKjTvubEd8eEVau6h8lXDhn96X_x5q7Jtu7KdI49UO3MX210l_R29ZCRKIUdymK7L1WwxnW-mkQscR1zVUFhs-yOnvtrsXWlRPBEJ0HFwIyGpXybk_pPCPXgQvBEH8miDZYknmqBjJOsYZedFivKT4FzEJO7bFtTT-B0Arru8WDrTe_ZEj3CITKXjmwfHRh7TDYR2MDXbPw2bP_Nsjf9k_IvCOxxAOUdJRH4CmlYOLd1rIwYdMvE8BFgDbRzt-MnpGRNYMTFsWSTGuGtdT-xMul6Dw4Wq2zculSl4FbVnGIl2mIcIcS4brgdoMZ8ymZzjRCwyJvlk1iHYneQa1YDyxU77PVqt-pSVWtrWMspyp681IOw9AcmUYIE2PDnV_widNOtB59oqC-ruQDh-yMPXtx7LnheIKo4lolyJs8FeVP3B3w4TD4gNt25SMGC5rKfcYAwD-W0QGOQKNNQ-oY_71hyXNoA9-5FcJqAw1e0J3BQ8g_ayyXCD7ReRlYZ9Mjh8NOzPIJz2Rc9UFjYiaFWnRTa3QpFeI4cS_0aoV8ztZf4pehu5JLTY5OrPUWtNgLnM0Atp9jVGUccBIOcllvQsHUwBYwXrUhe7hBCtYvapLIuBgpM9DXcPkcNXAKz2q-i_rjNiXp3j3kIxuKJXjqKd9j6ZlsYXxDYWG7Vwr7y9e_6k-Pi6p=w1244-h933-no?authuser=0)
Kind regards,
Vern
Thanks to you both! We've been cleaning out old files and I found a couple that I knew I had but didn't know where they were. I'm not seeing the images so it must be a deficiency in my computer's installed programs but, based on the descriptions, I have an early version and a later one. :)
Vern, can't see the photos in your post ?
Mike
I can't view them either.
Craig R.
Same
Whew! Thanks, guys! I just thought it was me being an old geezer having trouble figuring out what was wrong with my laptop!
Not sure why they arent showing up on other peoples' browsers...they are showing on mine.
Id upload them as basic attachments to these replies (as i tried to do when I post above) but, when I try that, I get a message from the forum that some picture file is full and that the attachments have failed to upload.
Vern
Here are photos of the early 1965-1966 Koni brochure.
(http://www.saacforum.com/gallery/44-070721011355.jpeg)
(http://www.saacforum.com/gallery/44-070721011454.jpeg)
(http://www.saacforum.com/gallery/44-070721011543.jpeg)
Here is a photo of the later Koni brochure (printed in 1968-70).
(http://www.saacforum.com/gallery/44-070721012117.jpeg)
Vern's photos from his Hi-Performance Motors email October 26, 2018
Thanks Brian. I sure would can love to find a 65/66 brochure :D
Cool brochure! Shock absorber in different languages of which the one at the bottom is Swedish.
In the 60's and 70's and maybe 80's there was a shop in Stockholm, Sweden called Stotdamparverkstaden and he
was a Koni specialist and had all parts required to rebuild them. Wish I could step back in a time machine.
Texas Swede
Thanks for posting the pics, Brian! Yep, I've got one of each. My wife was nagging me to pitch out a couple of boxes of old files I had stored in a closet. I said I would but would go through them before tossing them in the recycle bin. So glad I did. Got her attention when I told her how rare they are. ;D