Aircooled VW South Africa

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:


Eugene's M-plate:


Note the same production date on both and VINs 291 apart.

Mr&Mrs fig's Samba:


Eugene's:

Congrats will be in order
All the best with the next 100 years

Congrats!

Wishing you both many more open roads and sunny skies

Congratulations and may there be many more.

Congrats.

How can they both have the exact same numbers?

Congratulations!! Life begins at fifty

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.

Congratulations Brilliant mile stone.

Cool! Nice to see that SA still has Buses that we can be proud of

Happy birthday to the Samba twins. Wishing them a long, dry and rustfree life.

Feels like only yesterday when I only had 6 months left to have her fixed up for her birthday

SambaOwner wrote:

Feels like only yesterday when I only had 6 months left to have her fixed up for her birthday

I hope mine will be restored before the next 50 years is up ...

Get to it then boys....chop chop

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?

Samba's are beautiful things