Just curious about the number of hi top kombis on this forum. I have a 74 model with two very large box section steel hoops evenly spaced and fixed to the upper body. Is this standard? and its a fibre glass roof with 74 dated glass allround, there is also a heavy steel plate bolted to the under carriage aft the jacking points and before the rear guards. Anyone else got one? Mine is $1500 away from rego plus or minus a few homebrews;-)
I have a '69 hi roof. Was originally a camper but, most of camper interior was long gone by the time I got it. Currently serving as a storage
shed.
Nice, does the ole girl have an engine or g'box? At least your using it for good. Any plans for it?
yes, the kombi complete mechanically and was driven under it's own power from where I unloaded it from the trailer to where it is parked in the
pics.
I originally wanted just the gearbox for the baja project but have since decided that it is too good to part out and maybe one day I'll restore it
back to its former glory.
They are becomiing quite popular especially in UK as canvas poptops wear much more quickly in UK weather even though many don't use them in
colder/wetter months.
Well worth restoring.
Were there many early type 2 hi tops imported during the 60's ?
Thats a snapper head
cool
VW Kombis sold in Australia were not imported. They were assembled in VW's factory in Clayton, Melbourne, from German CKD kits together with some
Australian-made components like batteries, tyres, glass, paint etc. Kombis were made in Melbourne from 1955 to 1976.
Hi-tops were a special-order model only, so not many were made. The FCAI's Australian sales figures for the '60s were fairly detailed but did not
give info on high-roof models. In 1964, for example, VW sold 3,086 'wagons', 507 'utilities', 1,869 'panel vans', 191 'Microbuses' and 2
'Ambulances', for a total of 5,655 VW Type 2s. But I dunno how many high-roofs.
Sopru did, for a little while, make an official VW Campmobile version of the high-top. This model was called the Wanderer Deluxe, and was available to
order along with the more usual pop-top versions (called the Adventurer). This is a scan of the 1976 brochure - it did not appear in the earlier 1975
brochure.
Hi-roof T3s were available in Europe but were not imported into Australia. Locally-converted hi-roof T4s were made to fill a contract for Ambulances.
The current T5 is available in hi-roof by special order, as is the larger Crafter.
sicko, that is a beauty. it'd be great to see this on the road, pete
Phil, thanks heaps for the info and pic... Legend! I really need to do a 'bit' more research on the topic. Yep, i have one of those, minus the mint interior. Old bugger; it will be a little while b4 mine looks like that, the int would cost a couple o grando to replicate that! I am getting my bus to a roadworthy and bare neccessities (interior)level for rego then concentrate on the fine details. Will add pics when the rego sticker is on the bus.
This one was for sale back in September in W.A.
http://thekombikonnection.myfreeforum.org/sutra16578.php#16578
I am not a fan of high tops, but that bus looks to be in real good condition
With the co efficient of drag being on the hi end of the scale, will 'slightly' lowering and replacing worn suspension items do much for the atrocious handling of this groovy bus? It has AP before engine # so is that 1700cc or 1800? Thanks