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.

Looks cool with an enclosed cabin! :P Needs to be slammed...

hay mate is he selling it u2u me did u get the 57

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

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.

tea up for me 2 have a look at it mate :P please

LOVE the rear wheels! Dualies?

Nah just crappy fatties by the looks of 'em

Now wrecked and stripped by 62 deluxe and co. Was a basket case and would not move. volma1

and someone els got it cut in half and front went 2 melbourne ??? for the frount spindels i think :thumb

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Cabin looked well designed....

shame these are disappearing so fast.....

Lee

:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry

hopefull tho its helped other cb 2 get on road u can only hope hay

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

God that piece of #$&* brings back memories. None good!!!

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.

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.

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

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

And a good time was had by all!!!!

You're right Ed, sometimes have to wing it take a gamble and occasionally not come up trumps. Cheers, Greg

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

The correct Country Buggy steering wheel is original Type 1 from the early split screen beetles. It was three spoked.
Picture is attached
Countrybuggybill

Wow,
No wonder they are rare as, Bill

Do You think VW had them in stock???

Lee

The splitty wasn't that bad, i saw it up at the wreckers and it sold for $800

And the cabin and doors from this country buggy are now in my garage