Samba twins turn 50!!!

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Samba twins turn 50!!!

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50 years ago today in the Volkswagen factory in Hannover, two Deluxe Microbus Sambas were built as part of a batch destined for South Africa. Amazingly those two buses are still around, one owned by Giz & I, and the other by Eugene SambaOwner.

Mr&Mrs fig's M-plate:
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Eugene's M-plate:
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Note the same production date on both and VINs 291 apart.

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Congrats will be in order :drunks: :drunks: :drunks: :drunks:
All the best with the next 100 years :D
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Congrats! :hangloose:

Wishing you both many more open roads and sunny skies 8)
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Congratulations and may there be many more.
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Congrats.

How can they both have the exact same numbers?
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Congratulations!! Life begins at fifty :D
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Chris wrote:How can they both have the exact same numbers?
They don't. The VINs are different; the buses were 291 apart on the production line. All the other numbers are the same because the buses were built on the same day with the same spec.
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Congratulations :hangloose: Brilliant mile stone.
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Cool! Nice to see that SA still has Buses that we can be proud of :wink:
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Happy birthday to the Samba twins. Wishing them a long, dry and rustfree life.
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:shock: :shock: :shock:

Feels like only yesterday when I only had 6 months left to have her fixed up for her birthday :( :( :(
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SambaOwner wrote::shock: :shock: :shock:

Feels like only yesterday when I only had 6 months left to have her fixed up for her birthday :( :( :(
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I hope mine will be restored before the next 50 years is up ...
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Get to it then boys....chop chop :zhelp:
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I'm still collecting the parts for my resto. Restoration won't start until I have all the required parts, which is actually not that much. The main sticking point is the nasty collision damage on the RHS of the bus. To repair it properly I need to find the complete right-hand side bodywork from a semaphore bus.

Anyone?
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Samba's are beautiful things
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