Aircooled VW South Africa

Paladin wrote:I can never get a straight answer...its always someone chirping something... HAhahahahaha

Hell, yeah - it is a lot more fun than twittering!

Pine wrote:Hey I see that is an old decomissioned SADF Crew Cab, with the anti-tank missile launcher on the right?

(I do hope that launcher is de-activated??? )

Yip dis reg oom.

Die donnerse firing pin is so half in en half uit...

My Boetie het dit vannie border gebring...

Paladin... you missed the boat...err make that bus.... 5 of them for free...

http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... ree+busses

Sucks that i missed that, it wouldve been an awesome project

Muderick wrote:

Now you are heading for ...

By the way, my mate wants to sell his low mileage 72 early bay crew cab for R50K...

Contact me for details...

Let me know if he wants to sell me the aircooler - keen !

Welcome "Hello I have a 1954 Fleetline Kombi" Paladin - you'll have a bit of fun around here

Paladin wrote:It looks similar to the back of this one- except for the paint job....I also have the slatted windows like this one does...

I missed that last comment. Is your bus a camper?

I dont really wanna sell the Thermador Swamp cooler, but make me an offer either way...

Muderick wrote:

Chris has 1090 times more posts than Paladin...

Hey Paladin , welcome man i only saw this now its sucks to have to work (i now see not everybody has that problem ) cant wait to see this bus !!

Hello .

Yes it is a camper.

Paladin wrote:Off topic question---Do we get the Crewcab in SA? Are they rare or easy to come by? Is there a webpage with ppl selling there VW's?

Here is lowlights project he is busy with:

http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... 23&t=15080

Here is mine I built and sold:

http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... =23&t=3387

Here is my T3 I had

http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... =23&t=5511

And the only T4 in SA i know off.

Paladin wrote:Hello .

Yes it is a camper.

OK, now we're talking. Do you know if the camper kit is home made, or an official Westfalia conversion, or something else?

Post some pics already! I'm curious about what you've got!

As far as i know its standard. Its got the slatted windows similar to the ones on the kombi in the pic i posted earlier. I know nothing about the details of the car, thats why im on here. Also, i can only get into the place where its stored when i move into my new place for various reasons, so There wont be some pics for a while...Sorry guys

I'm in Cape Town so let me know if I can be of help......

So to try and give some straight answers.....

For local parts I use a guy called Dave Rowley in Killarney Gardens.....or you can use Volkspares. Nearly all parts have to be imported, but things like bearings, rubbers, glass can all be made in SA. For imported parts, I use CIP1.com in the USA.

Your bus as fig says seems later than a 54. Few questions as you can't get pictures at the moment.....

1) Do you remember if the VW emblem on the front was pressed in the metal or was a added badge type?


2) Do you remember the shape of the rear lights......were they long like Mo? (my bus)


3) Do you remember what the front indicators looked like? Where they pointy ones or oval and flat?
or


4) Do you remember how the door handles opened the front doors? a push button or did you pull the whole handle?

Some of us actually work during daytime hours, hence the hour of my post
Excuse Dutch for all the pics, he is just showing off his stunning bus - Mo while he still lives in a country with sunshine.

Muds, you and your swamp cooler pics hijacking other threads, it's gotta stop ! How much ? (Sweet DC btw )

With that, welcome Paladin, you have us all curious, now drive out there and take those pics !

ps. For your sake, I hope it's not a fleetline, else Pine will let loose the "rocket launcher"