Aircooled VW South Africa

Hi Guys. Here are a few pictures of the white 1969 model bay window I recently acquired.
It was the last one I had to fetch out of this lot I bought.


The bus was still on stands as it had just had a full rebuild underneath.




The final trip to Barrydale with my van fully loaded with spares, engines and gearboxes.

After some finishing off touches mechanically, installation of the motor and gearbox, the bus is running lovely. If you take a look at the interior pics below, you will see its original paint and colour on the dash board, but at some point in its life, some guy resprayed it with a rattle can outside. It looks hideous, but im going to just try and flat it off and hopefully it will reveal the original paint underneath. The bus is in a lovely solid condition.

It still had the Zimbabwean plates on when I got it, the original owners had moved to South Africa in the early 2000's and drove it down. This is also not a locally assembled bus, but a full import.







Take note of the different instrument cluster, its a 69 model with the very early speedo with odometer at the bottom of the needle, but it reads in km/h.

Nice collection there Sean.

Hope the missis don't hold you at BAY.....



Herman

Then finally, the seats I got with it. The original owner had them all wrapped up in bubble wrap and brown paper for protection over the years while in storage. Unwrapping them revealed a rather itchy 70's material which didn't look so good, BUT, it was coverings made over the original vinyl which was still beautifully intact. It is a very different weave pattern on the vinyl we dont see here in SA. I think the vinyl in Fig's 70 Westy camper may be the same. I never seen any others.





More pics to follow tomorrow of how the seats look after cleaning.

supercool

Wow, you keep on finding them! Hope you also uncover the OG paint. Nice bus.

Very nice Sean! U know how to make us jealous!

Great find!

Awesome bus and find