A guy who has ben doing a bit of panel beating on my car has this beast hiding away. Thought it was a cool never seen one with a cab like this, any ideas?? Some one has chopped it and put in a toyota crown motor into it. Pretty rough it has been used as a paddock basher but he saved it from going to the crusher.
silverbullet ·
silverbullet ·
PrettyBlueBug ·
Looks cool with an enclosed cabin! :P Needs to be slammed... 😉
handycam ·
hay mate is he selling it u2u me did u get the 57
BrisDubba ·
Hmmm I see that it is chained to the tree, like some mongrel dog... perhaps that is an omen- but it does appear to have the proper steering wheel
silverbullet ·
Just needs a kennel to keep it warm. Parked on the side of a hill chained to stop it rolling away but pretty sure the back brakes were seized any way. Seemed to be pretty well complete and original just had a hard life by the looks of it.
handycam ·
tea up for me 2 have a look at it mate :P please
sinecure ·
LOVE the rear wheels! Dualies?
VWCOOL ·
Nah just crappy fatties by the looks of 'em
volma1 ·
Now wrecked and stripped by 62 deluxe and co. Was a basket case and would not move. volma1
handycam ·
and someone els got it cut in half and front went 2 melbourne ??? for the frount spindels i think :thumb
[ Edited on 23-7-2006 by handycam ]
68AutoBug ·
Cabin looked well designed....
shame these are disappearing so fast.....
Lee
MickH ·
:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠
handycam ·
hopefull tho its helped other cb 2 get on road u can only hope hay
ragtopp ·
It actually went into getting two C.B's back on the road.
When restoring cars that what happens, some shitters go into getting good cars going, they cant all be saved.
Werent you trying to jump in on the deal volma1? Wish you had of taken it, trust me it didnt need the chain, that thing was going nowhere but to vw heaven
62deluxe ·
God that piece of #$&* brings back memories. None good!!!
silverbullet ·
was out there the other day i assume the back half is still there chained to the tree. The guy still cant belive the interest that it raised. I really dont know how he got it off the trailer when he dropped it off but it definately wasn't going any where.
62deluxe ·
For anyone who thinks it's a crime etc etc to cut up a country buggy, I dare you to make anything out of this thing. It was waaaay past salvage. Don't:cry kiddies. It went to save others.
MickH ·
62deluxe wrote:For anyone who thinks it's a crime etc etc to cut up a country buggy, I dare you to make anything out of this thing. It was waaaay past salvage. Don't:cry kiddies. It went to save others.
Not crying about that...the front end would have been good in my buggy!! Pity it was left to rot though.At least it was an organ donor:thumb
volma1 ·
I was only interested till I heard it was sold Ed, then interest waned after seeing the poor thing. Only good for parts as you found out. volma1
ragtopp ·
Greg we didnt even break even on the parts we got. The splitty we bought at the same time was even worse than the buggy, sight unseen of course, but sometimes you got to take a chance. The splitty wasnt even brought back to hobart. Two T4 kombis and two broken trailers and busted self esteem sent us on the 250km trip back home!!!:cry
62deluxe ·
And a good time was had by all!!!!🤪🤪
volma1 ·
You're right Ed, sometimes have to wing it take a gamble and occasionally not come up trumps. Cheers, Greg
BUGBOY ·
The front end is now rebuilt and is going into one of my CB's.
The car was way to gone to restore, but it has helped me put two back together.:thumb
68AutoBug ·
BrisDubba wrote:Hmmm I see that it is chained to the tree, like some mongrel dog... perhaps that is an omen- but it does appear to have the proper steering wheel
I just found out that a 1971 [Non Super] 1200 Beetle sold in the UK & Europe had the same black plain steering wheel as used on the Country Buggy.....
I knew VW wouldn't have specially had them made...
I presume the steering wheels were German??
or maybe Aussie Made...??
Well, I'm guessing they were the same....
Lee
[ Edited on 16-8-2006 by 68AutoBug ]
58camper ·
The correct Country Buggy steering wheel is original Type 1 from the early split screen beetles. It was three spoked.
Picture is attached
Countrybuggybill
68AutoBug ·
Wow,
No wonder they are rare as, Bill
Do You think VW had them in stock???
Lee
Rural Baja ·
The splitty wasn't that bad, i saw it up at the wreckers and it sold for $800🤪
Craig Torrens ·
And the cabin and doors from this country buggy are now in my garage🙂
Dak-A-Tak ·
Rod Richardson has just pick one up ! very good body.
4stud brakes - will be built for criuzing!
Hertz ·
68AutoBug wrote:Wow,
No wonder they are rare as, Bill
Do You think VW had them in stock???
Lee
Nah the steering wheel fairy left them in each car every night.
MickH ·
Hertz wrote:
68AutoBug wrote:Wow,
No wonder they are rare as, Bill
Do You think VW had them in stock???
Lee
Nah the steering wheel fairy left them in each car every night.