Last month Paul and myself took a quick drive up to JHB to fetch 3 newly acquired Deluxe early bay kombi’s.
Here is the first one I had to collect. It’s engine had been removed around 25 years ago, so this had to be trailered. It was inherited from the current owners father with the engine also still removed. It had dropped a valve somewhere outside of Beaufort West, stripped and never put back together. The original motor was still kept in boxes and is matching its number to the original service book.
This is a 1970 model, Aquamarine colour on the outside and a very strange brown interior, chairs, mats, vinyl padding and floor panels are all brown.. Brown certainly seems a odd colour with turquoise, but it was listed. Its a first ive ever seen.
Colour code 070 and Tutone brown interior.
Here are a few pics.
As it has been out of use for so many years, the interior is extremely well preserved.
Some of the original docs.
Spares that came with the bus loaded up.
All loaded up with the engines and gearboxes strapped to the trailer and ready for the trip home.
Oh, the other red item on the front of the trailer is Paul’s fire pump that we had to pick up in Pretoria first. I’m sure he will have more pics of that later, it certainly is a rare item, I think dated 1957.
Well, the Mercedes now had a 1.2 ton trailer, 2 x 1.4 ton kombis, the very heavy fire pump, 4 engines and 4 gearboxes all in tow. 
We thought we may have an issue, but actually it didn't hinder it much at all.
