What is a Fleetline?

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here is my orange one...
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Nice collection that you have there hifi :shock:
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thanx BB
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hifibug57 wrote:
fig wrote: Light blue:
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but surely the white to the beltline (right) is incorrect?
Here's another one with that pattern:
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ahh, thanx fig
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Fig, Any news on your orange one...painted yet?
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Ja Dutch, you would be interested in the Orange one, wouldn't you?
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Have to say true to the cause! Better than brown.
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No, work on the bus is on hold, waiting for more cash ...
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So i must then ask fig, how would you recongize a fleetline? and is the fleetline the only bus with the vw emblim push up on the front?

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Trevlyn wrote:So i must then ask fig, how would you recongize a fleetline? and is the fleetline the only bus with the vw emblim push up on the front?

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fig wrote:Fleetlines (like all Brazilian splits) were a hodge podge of early and late split parts:
pre-55 style cargo doors, but mirror-image for RHD; 58-style engine hatch, but with pushbutton lock; early-type pull-out door handles; pre-64 corner windows on Kombis (must be the only 15-windows that aren't deluxes); small (pre-64) rear hatch, though both panels and Kombis had the bigger back window; sway bar on front axle; 12V alternator electrics; 1600 DP engine; big-nut transmission; etc, etc.

They also had a few Brazil-only quirks, like a pressed-in VW emblem on the front panel (try steal that!) and no slots in the dash for the radio speaker (just three slots each side of the radio hole).
They also had a small aluminium tag on the RHS of the overhead air box that says made in Brazil, assembled in SA.
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Thanks, alot to look for, reason for asking as i think my father may have one, but just the shell.

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Were they all Division busses? They did not make walkthroughs in the Fleetline line up??
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Yes they were all made with divisions.
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Where any of the VW buses made in SA? Well any of the split windows?
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