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frog - May 27th, 2003 at 06:00 PM

Just type 2's to keep it simple.
To give us an idea of how many kombis and which model we have on A.V.D.

baybuscamperkid - May 27th, 2003 at 08:07 PM

ive always wanted to do this!

jenz58 - May 27th, 2003 at 08:14 PM

A '58 Type 1 and a '70 Type 3

Well had to add my rides:bounce

Hey Type 2's are cool just not enough of me to drive another 'type' at the moment but would love one one day:sandrine

jenz58 - May 27th, 2003 at 09:00 PM

Any more??? and how big is your shed????

I'm out of here before I mess with the thread any more

Love Type 2's :cool:

BenettonVW - May 27th, 2003 at 09:22 PM

What is wrong with the Poll percentages...

jenz58 - May 27th, 2003 at 09:40 PM

I can't vote cos I don't have one Does this mean I can't see them??? That what you mean

Someone give us current stats if you can see them pleeeease

frog - May 27th, 2003 at 11:01 PM

I have never submitted a poll before and not sure if it has been done correctly.How do you vote on this thing,how have other people voted as some have and some can't or maybe I can't vote because I set the poll,should'nt there be small white dots to click on to cast a vote or maybe I am dreaming and have lost the plot.

fish - May 28th, 2003 at 05:15 AM

ive got two. a 1966 bus and a 1960 which is not on the road as yet. money money money.

fish - May 28th, 2003 at 05:16 AM

oh we also have two bay windows. one reg and one nearly reg.

Bizarre - May 28th, 2003 at 07:56 AM

Ok ok

where is the air cooled vanagon section
The T2.5!

c'mon c'mon - i dont wanna get nasty here !!!:P

Spook - May 28th, 2003 at 08:07 AM

I got a split & a bay, so have quite a few others....... :cool:

pyr0 - May 28th, 2003 at 10:52 AM

i got a bay :bounce

Andy - May 28th, 2003 at 11:33 AM

Got a few Bay's. Just how it worked out for me.
Like a lot of people would love a splitty single cab one day.

VWFOOL - May 28th, 2003 at 12:51 PM

a '57 panel van and a '60 11 window split
:bounce

kombi_kid - May 28th, 2003 at 07:52 PM

3 bays and 2 splits , 4 type 3's and a beetle know all i need is a NB (its coming) and a type 411 or 412 and a KG
:jesus:jesus:jesus:jesus:alien
to many cars are trippin me out
cheers
rhys:jesus

Grey 57 - May 28th, 2003 at 07:55 PM

kool avatar Sam. Hows the splitties coming along?

Herbie - May 29th, 2003 at 01:16 AM

I have a 67 Kombie a 62 beetle {herbie}
and a 69 German sarcwirth

Tony and Herbie

fish - May 29th, 2003 at 06:06 AM

hey the splittys are streakin ahead. ( as they should be, he he he )

Robo - May 29th, 2003 at 06:59 AM

BAY'S RULE

KOM123 - May 29th, 2003 at 10:16 PM

Go Bays

duncombemu - May 30th, 2003 at 12:46 AM

Does it count that I live next to a bay. Great Oyster Bay on Tasmania's east coast.:P Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!
Regards,
Mark:thumb

Phil74Camper - May 30th, 2003 at 02:03 AM

According to the Oxford Dictionary that came with my Britannica Encyclopedia CD:

Bay Window: noun A window built to project outwards from an outside wall.

Can someone please explain what that has to do with VW Kombis?? T2 Kombis do have curvy screens, but they DON'T project outwards. They follow the curve of the body and, if anything, slope inwards as they rise to the roof. They don't make an alcove like real bay windows in houses do.

Is this another inaccurate, lazy term we've picked up from overseas? I, for one, refuse to use it.

Same with Vanagon - the name used in the US for the T3 Kombi, only available in Microbus form in that market. What are you going to call a T3 panel truck, or window van, or pickup (single or double cab)? These weren't sold in the US and therefore CANNOT be called 'vanagons'.

I have a series 2 Kombi which, incidentally, was sold in Australia as the VW Commercial. The T3 was called the VW Transporter.

fish - May 30th, 2003 at 04:58 AM

c'mon splittys, the bays are starting to get ahead.

fish - May 30th, 2003 at 05:01 AM

Hey phil. is your avatar of a BAY kombi or a CURVY kombi. He He He!!!!

Phil74Camper - May 30th, 2003 at 09:09 AM

Exactly! My avatar is a shot of my '74 Campmobile, which is certainly curvy (I love looking at curves...)

But it DOES NOT have 'bay windows'. The roof goes up - maybe that makes it a cape cod. Who knows.

Andy - May 30th, 2003 at 09:44 AM

I thought the term 'bay window' came out of England?
Phil, I call mine a Volkswagen Microbus Deluxe thanks :o
As much as I agree with the term T1, T2, T3, T4, T5. The problem I often see is many people abbreviate Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3 to T1, T2, T3 etc.
Gets very confusing. Typical Germans!!!

sand kombi - May 30th, 2003 at 10:13 AM

GO THE BAYS ,THE VANAGONS ,THE WESTFALIAS , THE TYPE 2'S ,THE T2'S OR THE CURVEY ONES , WHICH EVER ONE YOU WANT BUT GO GO GO !!!!!!
:beer:thumb:beer:thumb:beer

Phil74Camper - May 30th, 2003 at 10:27 AM

Hi Andy, yes it did, I first remember seeing the term 'bay window' in UK VW books and thinking 'what a strange thing to call a Kombi'. The Yanks just call them VW Buses. I call mine a 'Kombi Camper'.

The Poms also call the T3 Kombi the 'wedge'. Thank goodness that hasn't caught on here...yet. I wonder what they call the current T4 model? The bedford maybe??

'ere, wot sort o' dynamo ya got on yer bay window - cor blimey, got any wings for a firteen oh free?'

Andy - May 30th, 2003 at 01:28 PM

hehehe, you crack me up!!!
Not sure about the 'poms', but the 'yanks' call a T4 a Eurovan.

frog - May 30th, 2003 at 04:50 PM

You have a point phil,I am an Aussie and should not take after other countries naming of kombis as I did in this poll,so from now on there is...
1950 to 55 barndoor.
1955 to 67 splitscreen.
1967 to 79 curve screen......sounds good to me.
1980 to 83 aircooled square kombi
1984 to 92 watercooled square kombi...and so on.
This seems universal so everybody know which kombi your talking about,
But hows bout we come up with our own Aussie names for each model and baffle the rest of the world.