Spotted a few today

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Spotted a few today

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Spotted all these today while walking around the neighbourhood.
I have spotted one mean looking syncro but it was not there today, will post pics of that one as soon as I see it again

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Thanks for the pics, is the westy LHD or another of those RHD busses with sliding door on the "other" side ?
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Thanks for the pics. Those early bugs are lovely :hangloose:
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jolas wrote:Thanks for the pics, is the westy LHD or another of those RHD busses with sliding door on the "other" side ?
That I beleive sir is a LHD, if you check carefully, you'll see the steering wheel sticking out on the wrong side of the dash.. :)
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position of wipers also indicates a lefty
No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.

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John Alves wrote:position of wipers also indicates a lefty
All baywindow wipers park like that, LHD or RHD.
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Dam wrote:
John Alves wrote:position of wipers also indicates a lefty
All baywindow wipers park like that, LHD or RHD.
That's correct. The sweeping pattern isn't best for RHD but VW obviously didn't think it was worth the cost to move them and change the wiper arms and motor. Only some Australian baywindows had the wipers changed for RHD because of local regulations.
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