Aircooled VW South Africa

Hi Guys!

I just collected my 1958 splitty, Very Excited!!!!

I was referred to a gentleman who lives on a plot, north of Pretoria who had owned the bus since new.
Once I had convinced him that I was not an exporter, and had showed him pics of some of the other cars in my collection, He felt assured that his baby was oing to a good home. We agreed on a fair price, and the bus was soon on the trailer.

The bus is 100% original as it was on the day it was delivered from the factory! It starts and still runs beautifully, and the owner was actually upset that I wanted to trailer it back to JHB. "Just drive it!" He said!
Has a full service history, and has been licensed up to date every year!

Question to all of you....... Do I restore it.... or just service it and leave it as is?








[EDIT:] Fixed the pics for you.

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Leave it as is.
Service the mechanicals, brakes & engine, keep it original, it looks great the way it is.
Great find.

very very nice

Congratulations on your find. It will give you alot of joy.

There is such a lot of patina there, it is a difficult choice to restore or not. Personally I would have probably painted to conserve the body and prevent any rust, if there is none and repair if there is any. That way the car will be preserved much longer. But you have to do it right the first time.

Congrats!

Congrats! I'm with the "leave it as is" crowd

Congrats!

Leave it as is.

Nice to see that they are still out there

Enjoy your Bus

CHOP IT, DROP IT AND THROW ON A SET OF TSW's, PAINT IT RED. muhuhuhahahaha. *not in the face, not in the face* hahaha. just joking bud. awesome find, just clean her up and keep her running.

Congrats! That was a very nice find. Keep it original if possible and just fix the mechanicals so that you can drive it without problems.

Thats 1 good looking bus, great find...keep AS IS!

If you molest it, FIG will find you (and to be honest, I will help him find you) and kick the @#@# out of you.
Keep as is, just clean up and maintenance. You don't know how lucky you are to find a bus like that!

keep it as is and store under roof. Nice bus.

Congratulations......as long as you use it rather than put her into a museam then I don't care.....lovely bus. I would leave until I had to do something!

Well done would love to see in the real.

I will say, congrates mate, but keep it like that!!!
nice to see original original!