Mate
What about the 2nd highest bidder?

if you were the 2nd bidder, please contact me via email.

you should use the second chance offer button. Did Lestar buy it.

we can't use the ebay 2nd chance offer until 3 days have passed I think, then the 2nd bidder gets first option.
its all up to my brother, its his, not mine.
we put stuff on ebay together, he also has an old truck but both split and his truck are project cars and need work. he will buy a modified transporter one day.

bugbits56

might be a bit later than a 61 as it has the egg flip indicators????

does it have amber indicators in the rear????

am interested, will send you an e-mail - h

i think the front indicators are not original either and have been grafted on to the nose. I had a look and they have been cut around front metalwork. Had a vw friend over today and he dates it as a 61 also. the low rear tailight holes are there. bus chassis plate number supports this.
I might grab a grinder and gently remove the light filler plates to confirm.
I'm open to questions , the chap who was the 2nd ebay bidder still has first option to buy. If not we may keep it...they kinda grow on you, like fungus.
David

we grabbed a grinder and wire brush to see if tailight hole is there. A big plate of tin has been welded on so we did one side of hole only as we don't have the tools and didn't want to make a mess of it. It's sorta a hole with 2 slots, 1 top and 1 bottom.
looks like it's is the right spot? don't know.
bugbits56

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Bitsa......was a panel.....looks to have push button front door handles and has small rear window and the rear holes look in the right spot and may have another above maybe as some 61's had amber above the red in Aus.
Maybe had a complete front to the doors graft from a 64+ as everything from front doors onwards looks to be 61ish for sure.

I thought these splits were popular? I'll stick to bugs.
oh well, she's down to $1700.
unreg. needs total restoration, has rust. subaru engine not running...no battery or key.
she's a panel dated between 61 - 64?
chassis 21 - 707108
collect in brisbane.
email dnicholson42@bigpond.com.

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hey give Gary a Ring at Conti Engines on Bribie Island he is after a split which needs some lovin ....

thanks but need his number please.
its got to go, need cash fast.
I'm surprised by lack of interest but thats veedubs for you.
Am i asking too much for it or just plain bad timing?

Thanks , can these corner replacement panels be bought as reproductions? or do we have to find a bus and cut it.
The corner windows would be an easy sheetmetal job as they are above and below the van waistline and roof gutter.
The wheelarches would take some doing but the sheetmetal is there. would it be easier and simpler to buy a replacement arch?

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Roy will have most of that ... or can get it ... you'd still have to stuff about with repro panels anyway to get them to fit. Probably just as hard to size up donor corners, mark 'em on this bus and weld them in. The flarings in the over arch sections are around - Roy probably again....

I agree - it's all do-able, and not that hard to get into with all the stuff about these days.

And on the plus plus side - it's a pretty early panel - and they are getting harder to get, and seem to be getting more popular each year, so if you're willing to look past today then one day it would make a nice ride ... someone should buy it ... it's a panel, and probably no worse than anything else that's around...

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sent u2u

Gary at Conti engines number is 07 34083177.

i've relisted her, if no luck we'll have to keep her I guess.
enquiries to: dnicholson42@bigpond.com

i cant find the listing on ebay, can someone post a link please


Found it.. sorry

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/VW-Kombi-Split-window-1961_W0QQitemZ4581214962QQcategoryZ72456QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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how cool, if they are original, then that makes it kinda Aussie cool. Tell the pommies. That is a top image....kind of makes sense...those window aint the kind of thing Repco stock....perhaps Mr Muller knows...seems like the kind of thing he'd have fact and figures on.....good luck with the sale.....you know you want to keep it doncha.

And not indicators on that bus either....wonder why CSIRO would not want to let people know where they were going.

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That poor old thing came out of our wrecking yard about 4 years ago - it had some interesting modifications to say the least. It was blue & white back then.

The rear windows are landrover series one from memory

what a shame, just when it was getting interesting....

hi guys, she wasn't blue and white, definitely a red van. used acetone and rubbed bits here and there on the bus to confirm. red inside too? is this usual? anyway, bus wasn't in wreckers yard 4 years ago, it was at my place in brissie...though it does look like a wrecking yard at the moment.
I think she is finally sold, maybe I made the mistake of letting go a unusual bus?
bugbits56

thanks for the reply guy h.
do you or hardings have a yard in brizzie?, wouldn't mind a look sometime with some vw diehard friends some time.

The comment intrigues us, and the prospective buyer, that she was blue and white, maybe a sister bus? or is it the same one somehow? we can't find any blue, but some yellow paint through the layers.
regards
bugbits56

Sorry, it was actually 7 years ago - it was a red panel van that had been painted white by a roller, whith cool? blue graphics painted on it - it had this massive scoop under it for the radiator - it the same bus - you remember them!

We sold it to a customer, crazy Roy, who was into "touching" them up - he painted it red & white - anyway - goodluck with the sale!

thanks guy h. must be the same bus!?
lots of interest in the bus but everyone is so far away from brisbane except for one or two...... so see how we go.
thanks again

just had someone look at the old girl. during inspection it was noticed that the rear corners windows are stamped as vw "sekurit" glass. I have sekurit etched glass on my 54 beetle.
This leads me to believe they are factory windows? does anyone out there think this is possible?

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haha.. crazy..

i'll take a pic so you can have a look. crazy stuff all right!?

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it looks the same as those on samba's etc...compare it to something like this...

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=223921