This Monday will hitch up the trailer and head to Mansfield to pick up a splitty ute, I havent seen it before, all that I know is that it has some sort of large cargo/box type arrangement as a food carrier or something from many moons back. This will be a challenge as the owner removed the reduction boxs n axles for a shooting buggy some 20 years back, so this splitty has been sitting next to the snow fields rusting away. I am expecting the worst, but am still excited and no matter how bad it is, it"s still coming home!!
Now to shed some light on how this all unfolded, we were at "Re Volks" down here in Geelong with our "unfinished" corvair powered bug, when my eldest sons fiance's parents wandered through the crowd and said hello. Whilst chatting, the father points to some splitties and says, "Hey, see those old kombi vans over there with the two front windows? I say yeah, well, down on the farm at Mansfield, we have one of those sitting there. 馃お
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Hah..................... thats funny 馃憤
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Back from Mansfield, 63 splitty on trailer, but guess what?? it is not a single cab with a box/cargo arrangement on the back, its actually a VW Australia built "containervan" The back section is in real bad shape and the trans & engine gone into a shooting buggy, cows have been rubbing & nudging it over the years but the actual front cabin has no major rust, front & rear bumpers perfect and had to laugh at the rear brass hinges as the cows did a great job of keeping them polished! have a peep at the pic and maybe look up VW "Containervan" on the net for some info of these rare splitties cheers Frank