Found in a Brisbane backyard last week

Any comments , advice or help with these two would be great. I think they are 57 & 54 models going by the chassis numbers....

so did you take them home?

3 days of hard slog including the removal of 2 ute & trailer loads of timber from inside both them , they were finally removed.
Have a few more pics of them but are not sure i can add any more to the post.

add more pics for sure!!! Hard slog more than worth it for the find. Did the timber make rust worse or better? Absorb moisture off the shell, or held it and added to rust?

No rust in the brown one, but the blue/green one has a bit in the front of the cabin. Not much considering they have been sitting this way since 1975 or there abouts. Will post more pic's in readers rides .

A few more pic's of the 57 & 54 kombi's found last week in Brisbane.

nice treasure hunting there 👍

A few more....

They look like an awesome find More pics !!!

more shots

Geez they look pretty solid too! They'd have to be the best barn finds I have seen for along time.

Just realised where the rest were. Those engines look quite good. Are you gonna restore them or put a larger donk in? I cant believe how clean they both look for the amount of time they have stood!

Wow!!!
They look fantastic ... what a great place to start from.
How on earth did you find them?

A few more pics.
I have loaded more pic's at a new thread in members rides.
I am still utterly astounded how good a condition these 2 vehicles are in after being used as a timber yard for the best part of 33 years .

nice find
matt

nice find Rhys

Thye will bring 30K no worries

looking at rear tail lights i am thinking more early 60's
what suburb did they come out of. either way great find and should make great resto's

Rhys that green one is a BARNDOOORRRRRR its heaps cool

they look like some i seen on a TV show, uno one of those reno gardening, pet rescue shows , it had old Kombis stuck down the back yard. Not sure if it as their yard or the neighbors who was being filmed.🤪maybe not them at all🤪😂🤪

don't think its rhys but yeh good find

winerot wrote:don't think its rhys but yeh good find

No hes a house owner he carnt afford these, all the money and time going into house renos

very very nice. great find.😎

Ohhhh man......the green eyed monster just reared its ugly head!

Very envious mate, I love them both! 👍
Al

Wow! Congratulations. Mutherload. So what's the story? How did you find these?

Good on you ........ like winning lotto.

These little beauties were found because the house is for sale.
It is very much like a hoarders paradise or a garbage tip, depending on your point of view.
You would knock the house down & start again, factoring in 100k or so to clear up the garbage inside & outside the house.
The only other thing recognisable in the yard among the old washing machines & assorted crap is a early 50's skoda bonnet.
Have tracked the chassis numbers down via samba.com as the plates on the brown one have been removed.
It seems to fall under the december 57 production run but anything is possible !

you lucky lucky lucky lucky bugger!😎

Better than winning 30k on a scratchy. Cool find

will you restore or just get them on the road? One or both?

A dream half a decade away for me...one day! very nice mate.

Unreal find, love the barny... must be more out there

Great Find ..one mans junk is anothers treasure ...no definitely not Rhys' find unfortunately!!!

man that shit$ all over a lotto win. well done

Awwwwwsome find, Just when you think all the good ones are gone !

that cartoon pic does look alot like you rhys, and thats gotta be a op rum bottle

yeah the brown one (blue painted front interior) is definately early,,, pre 59 for sure

what a find,,, i`m jealous as sin mate

great find. well done.
just goes to prove they are still out there.
have a look around there for the back bumper off the Barny. it's bound to be there somewhere.
as they both have ribbed bumpers, they are both '50's.
the tail lights on the "brown" bus are later added trailer lights. the centre rear brake light puts it 55 to 57
the "green" one is obviously a Barny, given away by the no roof overhang over the windscreens, the dash pod, the 3 spoke steering wheel, the 16" rims, etc.
congrats to you.

wow what a great score!
Did you try not to run down and control your excitement when u saw them whilst trying not to look impressed at the house , man your heart must have been pumping like a freight train

lucky bastard.awsome find🤪

Fantastic brother.
Thankfully builders hoard everything.

That later bus looks like the weight of the timber over the years has lowered her permanently.
Definetly barndoor there.

i hate you now

Fuckin hell! A green BARNDOOR!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This truly warms my heart... just like annimal rescue.. they needed to be pulled out and unloaded, looked as if they were keeping he shed roof up! They would be glad to be free of all that wood pile Weight!!

as far as barn finds go........you win😏

Update please!

What are your plans for them?
Are you going to keep one or restore them both?

What is the floor like in them?

They both look pretty good considering the condition they have been kept in.

nice one , good to see their still out there.

WAOW! A barndoor with safaries 🙁.

I have nothing to say, apart from 'you suck!'
What a score! I didn't think barn finds like that were still possible

Spectacular find Kid....congrats!!

More to the point how the fark did you get them out of there !!! I hope they turn out well for you that looked like a serious rescue mission.

Well done.

I just have to keep telling myself that happiness is being satisfied with what you have, not getting what you want........

I really wish I'd kept a few of the splits I had back in the late '80s and early '90's. Only have a few photos and the memories now.

thats a freakin awesome find! 😵👍what suburb in Brisbane were they from?

Greetings,
I have finally got around to joining up, my little bro posted the pics.
To answer some questions: A mate stumbled across them in a backyard in Bardon, called me immediately.
I went round that arvo, checked them out, and made the guy an offer, on the proviso that we would take all of the firewood stored inside both vans, and dig them out, for.......$500!!!
For both!!!
And even then I think I could have had them for $200, he seemed surprised when I mentioned the number.
Needless to say I called in sick for work for the next 3 days. Every arvo when the guy got home from work, I was sure he would have made at least 1 simple Internet search to find their real value and demand more money, but it never happened.
It took 2 days to remove the firewood from both, we jacked them up off the stumps that they were stored on, inflated the tyres, 7 of the 8 held 40psi!
The rhf tyre on the Barndoor blew out approx 10 secs after inflation, just as I went to walk away from it, sounded like a bomb went off !!!

We knocked a retaining wall down and used a 4wd recovery hand winch to skull drag them up and out, with 1 wheel on each van locked on.

The barndoor is an Nov 54 build, no motor or seats, lots of rust in both doglegs, inner sills all the usual spots.

The Chestnut Brown one is Oct 57, complete minus the rear seat, with the semaphores bogged into the B pillars, an d some poxy 70's Hella trailer lights in the rear, and indicators screwed into the front. Both of which have been removed.

I have spent approx 3 full days labour on it so far, and have managed to fit a new 6 volt battery to it, and 1 hour later, jerry rig some fuel into the carby, reset the points,crank the engine into life after 32 years sitting idle!! I got sprayed with a rusty shower from the pee shooter exhaust tip, but not a hint of smoke.
I took off the tappet covers to reset the valve clearances, to find what looked like a top end rebuild. The oil looked like it hadn't even been used, and the heads are immaculate.
It did have a death rattle, sounded like a gudgeon pin on No1, but it turned out to be the Exhaust pushrod not located correctly. Refitted and reset the clearances, and ran it again, reset the idle by ear. It now purrs like the day it left the factory. Unbelieveable.

Stuck a new gear linkage in it so it had a gearshifter that worked, adjusted the rear brakes so the handbrake worked, and took it for a drive around the paddock, the box sounds like it all works properly too.

Can somebody tell me when the next VW get together is on and when?

And is anyone interested in the 54? It's too much project for us at the moment, love to see it go to a good home.

Does anyone have any idea what the Barndoor is worth?

crazy.. some win lotto others drag that out and flip it..

Backyard Barnfind wrote:Does anyone have any idea what the Barndoor is worth?

Plenty mate, always worth what someone is willing to pay I'd guess up to 20 maybe more things have tightend up of late though

i doubt if anyone who knows you got it for 500 will pay you 20k,but... good luck

I think its good that he is honest about how much he paid for them, most people would not be.
And i'm sure we all would want as much as we could get for one if we were selling.

Agreed Bob.
If it goes toward putting the other one on the road so good on him.

This is a great thread.....Has to be plenty still left out there, 😎

swap you my nsw regoed 62 panel for both of them😁

I have been nothing but honest through the whole process.
I don't mean to rub anyone's nose in it, just telling it how it played out.
After having been at the pointy end of new VW sales for the past few years, it's really refreshing to chat with fans of the product who aren't only interested in "my best price" when their trying to buy(steal) one from me.
Thanks Bob.
And yes it will go towards getting the 57 back on the road. Just pulled the engine and fuel tank out today, turns out the tank is 1/3 full of rust/crusty goodness.
Is the easiest way out of this replacing it with a Bay unit? Or perhaps a custom Stainless jobbie?

Any suggestions folks?❓

you can get new tanks but best to put a baywindow one in , modify filler neck and straps , bonus is its 12v .
check out DSK for more split porn, and info

Backyard Barnfind wrote:I have been nothing but honest through the whole process.
I don't mean to rub anyone's nose in it, just telling it how it played out.
After having been at the pointy end of new VW sales for the past few years, it's really refreshing to chat with fans of the product who aren't only interested in "my best price" when their trying to buy(steal) one from me.
Thanks Bob.
And yes it will go towards getting the 57 back on the road. Just pulled the engine and fuel tank out today, turns out the tank is 1/3 full of rust/crusty goodness.
Is the easiest way out of this replacing it with a Bay unit? Or perhaps a custom Stainless jobbie?

Any suggestions folks?❓

Come join dsk, plenty of barny folk on there... www.dsk.com.au

Id be interested in a price? Otherwise how can anyone know what to pay or offer? I did send a PM...

Come join dsk, plenty of barny folk on there... www.dsk.com.au

Id be interested in a price? Otherwise how can anyone know what to pay or offer? I did send a PM... [/quote]

hah hah & naturally so did i send a p.m.
get what you can i say & good luck with it.

Here we go again! watch this space

okrasa power wrote:Here we go again! watch this space

haha, new barny mikki?

nice one mikki , if it goes thru you need to have a barny n beer show and tell.

Hey your welcome at my place anytime just bring your welding helmet, there is always plenty of welding to do

i'll organise a BBQ in a month or so

Talk soon

Well done for scoring such a find!!
Appreciate your honesty ... why wouldn't we be happy for you while being jealous at the same time.

No bitter feelings here ... enjoy it !!!👍

jesus! what a score. congrats

stick it on ebay with links from www.dsk.com.au and you will see how much it is worth

nice find.

The Barndoor has gone to a good home, and I believe is being restored currently. I hopeto trailer the 57 to the next get-together, anyone have any ideas when and where that might be??

On www.dsk.com.au yet?
Just for splits.
AVD is a wealth of knowledge too of course.

Joined the DARK SIDE yesterday!!🥷

fwooor lucky bugger

dsk has some pretty good specific stuff

great find, any updates on these two?