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 Secoh
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| posted on January 7th, 2004 at 08:12 PM |
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Swapping kombi floors?
What is involved in swapping the complete floor pan from a bay kombi? is it even concievably possible?
Here's the theory. You can get a brand new bay kombi body shell in a crate (price unknown) but you would have to rego it under current
ADR's. AKA no way it'd ever pass.
But you can get a local kombi and in theory use the kombi "chassis" with a new body, therefore it'd be a rebodied '76 (ish) kombi
and only have to comply with '76 etc ADR's.
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| posted on January 8th, 2004 at 07:34 AM |
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Not possible, the Kombi body is part of the chassis.
Why not change the numbers?.... Did I say that!!!
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Andy
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| posted on January 8th, 2004 at 08:49 AM |
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As Dave say's.
Passing on what I've heard from other's your better putting money into a reasonable original and end up with a better bus anyway.
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57kombi
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| posted on January 8th, 2004 at 10:30 AM |
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If you buy the body shell it comes with the floor and chassis as they are one piece
http://www.beetles-uk.com
sell them for 4750 pounds.
thats about $11,000 then you will have to pay shipping and import duty, and it still needs engine wheels gearbox, interior.
Is it worth it???
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Dave
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| posted on January 8th, 2004 at 05:27 PM |
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Kelly Brown did it on a '56 Bus
Check out http://www.metwiz.com
Huge job. You just can't cut & shut, you need to cross brace the upper body to stop it distorting.
I personally doubt that it's worth doing it on a bay. A '56 deluxe bus? Well that's another matter!
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