There was also a 69 Beetle, which hardly raised a bid - strange?
Durban Classic Car auction
- RobCoombe
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Durban Classic Car auction
Spotted this really neat double cab on auciton. Any idea whose this might have been?
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There was also a 69 Beetle, which hardly raised a bid - strange?
There was also a 69 Beetle, which hardly raised a bid - strange?
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Re: Durban Classic Car auction
Neat custom. It looks like a 68, although it says 1979 in the windscreen.
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It was at least five years too young. Funny, when I started my interest in buses in the early 1990s, I was usually the only person with a bus, bay or split, at VW shows; in those days it was always about Beetles and Karmann Ghias. Buses were worthless and no one was interested in them. Bugger's Bugfest show at Kyalami in 1999 was the first I attended where there was a significant bus presence. But while we were sleeping the scalpers were already hard at work exporting all the R1k buses that no one in SA wanted.RobCoombe wrote:There was also a 69 Beetle, which hardly raised a bid - strange?
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- RobCoombe
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I challenged the auctioneer, who swore it was a 1979, and there was another guy there who said he had a 1978, also with the low-lights and small oblong back lights? But I don't know how to tell without the platesfig wrote:Neat custom. It looks like a 68, although it says 1979 in the windscreen.
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Low front indicators ended in 1972, along with the rounded bumpers and a whole lot of other stuff. Low front indicators with rectangular taillights would be 1972 (crossover year between early and late baywindow body).RobCoombe wrote:I challenged the auctioneer, who swore it was a 1979, and there was another guy there who said he had a 1978, also with the low-lights and small oblong back lights? But I don't know how to tell without the platesfig wrote:Neat custom. It looks like a 68, although it says 1979 in the windscreen.
Most people use the year of first reg in the papers as the model year. In my experience this is seldom correct. I often tell people the year model of their ACVW and they argue with me. I explain to them the VIN numbering system and they still disbelieve. At that point I leave them to think whatever they like.
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FTR, from August 1964 (ie, beginning of the 65 model year), the third digit of VW VINs represents the year model. That DC's VIN wil start 268 if it's a 68 (2 = Type 2, 6 = pick-up, 8 = 1968). The only thing that suggests it's a 68 in the photo is the rearview mirror, which looks like the one-year-only 68 mirror that has been bent.
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Re: Durban Classic Car auction
That particular bus was for sale on the forum more than once if memory serves, and I think a forum member bought it, or knows the owner.
Wonder what happened?
Wonder what happened?
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Well spotted karma! I didn't recognise it until you pointed that out. Now I look at it again, the old Passat steering wheel jogged my memory.
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