Aircooled VW South Africa

Tiger0107 wrote:

Sambabus wrote:Interesting adds in the Ultra VW this month.

bienie wrote:Very interesting!!

Oh boy.. here we go again...
hmmm.. Whats so interesting.. it looks like a normal add... lol..
Those are actually old adds, was posted on Ultra VW site the same time that I posted the panel van on http://www.ssvc.org.uk.. . That was like 2 months ago..

But u are all welcome to jump to any conclusions u want..

Your Buses - You can advertise them wherever you want to

managed to get some parts for the D/C...

Got the engine lid/hatch....
Got a set of headlights, but they from a fleetline..
and then also got the rear light bulb holders (left and right)... Just need the lenses..

List of metal/body parts needed so far..

Lower inner valance
Lower outer valance
rockers - Left and right....lower side rockers 6in high
under 3rd door rocker
behind 3rd door rocker
under 3rd window rocker
outriggers
inner sill/rocker - Left and right...inner rockers
battery trays - Left and right
rear corners - Left and right

Nice one, making some progress - Fleetline headlights should be ok, same wiring up, connections, mountings, etc. Are your rear lenses the small round ones ?

jolas wrote:Nice one, making some progress - Fleetline headlights should be ok, same wiring up, connections, mountings, etc. Are your rear lenses the small round ones ?

Hey dude.. No, it the oval-ish ones, same/similar to the early bay ones..

oh and I've got myself a set of bay window D/C tail gates.. That going to use and cut shorter or going to see if I can use it to fix the split tail gates....

Also got the fuel tank of the bay window D/C... Will that work on the split window D/C?

You can get the rear tail light lenses locally, here in the Cape anyway, Dave Rowley and others import them, not original
Hella quality oviously, but nice and new. Unsure about the bay fuel tank in your split DC. I have a bay window tank in
my Fleetline SC (previous owner), will have to make new or improvise the fixings, the filler neck also looks awkward, but
it works, I'll probably put a split tank back in later. You can have your old fuel tank cleaned/refurbished.

Progress Ilike.
Bay tank will work, I think it will carry more feul

jolas wrote:You can get the rear tail light lenses locally, here in the Cape anyway, Dave Rowley and others import them, not original
Hella quality oviously, but nice and new. Unsure about the bay fuel tank in your split DC. I have a bay window tank in
my Fleetline SC (previous owner), will have to make new or improvise the fixings, the filler neck also looks awkward, but
it works, I'll probably put a split tank back in later. You can have your old fuel tank cleaned/refurbished.

Yip, I will get it from Rui when I need it.. First rather need to get body work done..
I don't have a petrol tank for the splitty's... Never came with one..

lowlight wrote:Progress Ilike.
Bay tank will work, I think it will carry more feul

Thanx.. Ok that is kewl atleast.. Will use it until and if I can find a spiltty D/C tank..

Oh and I also forgot, I need all the floors..

Cab floor,
cargo floor, and
loading bed floor.....

Nice project...all the best !
are you thinking of getting the panels from Klassic fab ?

splitbusahollic wrote:Nice project...all the best !
are you thinking of getting the panels from Klassic fab ?

Hi, splitbusahollic...
Thanx man...... Trying to see if I can first get them locally... But I have already mailed Gerson for prices..
So will see what happens..

Hi Tiger good luck as I am basically at the same spot with my 66 panel as your DC
I just bought the steel today to build a Rotiserie for my spilt bus as I took it to a sand blasting company for blasting but stopped them as I got details of someone that I have seen his work and they do a nice sand blasting job and cheaper than the 1st option
They normally charge R1000 for a fiat 500 but he quoted me R1800 to do my bus inside and out
Will keep you posted
What is the gearbox code on the fleetline box you got

Hi Bugger, please will you take pics of your rotiserie, how you make it, etc, etc. What are they going to blast it with? I've has some bad luck with sand blasting, especially the panels. But it is without a doubt the best way to go. Are you going to put it in primer yourself?

Bugger wrote:Hi Tiger good luck as I am basically at the same spot with my 66 panel as your DC
I just bought the steel today to build a Rotiserie for my spilt bus as I took it to a sand blasting company for blasting but stopped them as I got details of someone that I have seen his work and they do a nice sand blasting job and cheaper than the 1st option
They normally charge R1000 for a fiat 500 but he quoted me R1800 to do my bus inside and out
Will keep you posted
What is the gearbox code on the fleetline box you got

Hi Bugger..
Ok that is kewl.. Good luck to you too..
The grey D/C is at BUGGOFF's(Ferdi's) place.. he is going to be doing all the body work for me..
But he still got a few to do before he gets to mine..

The gearbox code is 113 301 103.2.....

jolas wrote:Hi Bugger, please will you take pics of your rotiserie, how you make it, etc, etc. What are they going to blast it with? I've has some bad luck with sand blasting, especially the panels. But it is without a doubt the best way to go. Are you going to put it in primer yourself?

I have also heard alot of stories about sand blasting that has gone wrong....
But it is true, sand/media blasting it first is the best then you know what you got to work with.
I did find one place in JHB that I was going send it for sand blasting too.. He quoted me R1200 to sand blast and R700 for MS primer or another primer that you can weld, etc with.. cant remember what it called. When I spoke to him, he said they use a very very fine sand to blast with so there "shouldn't" be any warping of panels....

But I didn't take it there.. decided to hang on a bit and see if BUGGOFF could do it.

This is the place details below..
http://blastandplant.co.za/services.htm
JRL BLAST <jrlblast@absamail.co.za>
Johan Lubbe
0823271375