SA bus in the UK

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SA bus in the UK

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Hey all, been lurking in the background for a while but thought I'd post up some pics of my bus.
Now I'm sure some of you may think this should be in the Stolen section, being a South African bus now in the UK :wink:

It's a 61, had it for just coming up for 2 years now and thankfully the welding is coming to an end

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Needed the usual bottom 6" doing , she's just about back to bare metal now....

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Some of the repiars...
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It's had inner and outer fron valance and lower nose, passenger side cab floor, passenger side repir in the cargo area, short rear sill, inner and outer sill on the cargo door side, lower repairs on the cargo doors, long outer sill, bottoms of the A and B posts, these were replacement panels and then loads of patching in work :)

So after 2 yeards of bady work I'm hopefully going to respray it this summer then probably another 2 years of doing the rest of it :lol:
It's going back together pretty much stock apart from the cargo area, this will be a home made thing mainly to cater for the dogs.

It's got a nice little SA dealer plate on the cab seat area, I'll get a pic and post it up.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the pics

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Post by Blitzkrieg »

Thanks for the pictures - don't worry about the origins of the Bus -at least over there it's getting a proper resto :wink:

Keen to see how this turns out! :hangloose:
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Lots of hard graft has gone into that so far man ! Good luck with the rest of the resto.
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nice one Andy...all the best.
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Nice bus but you sure it's an SA bus as that's a lot of rot? You are doing a nice job, maybe we can meet up at some point? When Mrs Dutch has had the baby I'm thinking of doing a UK meet if anyone interested.

Nice work keep the updates coming please!
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Another bus getting saved in the world. Love it. :hangloose: :hangloose: :hangloose:
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good to see another one being done. Dutch, at this rate, I think a meet-up would be good as if all goes to plan, i'll be back home next year sometime (with toys of course)
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Thanks for the good comments, here's the Dealer badge that's on the cab saet panel....
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For you guys thinking of coming over, there seems to be shows all summer long here, having said that we don't actually go to any :lol: :lol:

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andy f wrote:Thanks for the good comments, here's the Dealer badge that's on the cab saet panel....
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For you guys thinking of coming over, there seems to be shows all summer long here, having said that we don't actually go to any :lol: :lol:

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Is the company still going?
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Hi, love your project! Capital Motors still exist, but I believe they are just normal VW dealers these days?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=za

They used to be importers & distributors of 'performance' VW parts...

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Pine,where do you get all this stuff from? :roll: :shock: :drunks:
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R39 for a BRM.... :shock: :shock: :shock: :oops: :roll:
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http://www.cylex.co.za/company/capital- ... 58648.html


This may be the same place.. nice work. :)
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WOW i wish i was around when things we selling at that price.

Nice bus :hangloose: What did u use to take it down to metal?
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