Aircooled VW South Africa

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C104832/

http://s230.photobucket.com/albums/ee9/ ... s/?start=0


This is crazy expensive

Hey Splitz, when can we see your busses??? Why does your dad always keep the garage door closed so nobody can take a peek???

Guess who is trawling the BUS forums. You have to admire the work that's gone into that bus !!

Here's a thought, and I don't want to start another debate on the E word, BUT, perhaps just perhaps, we should not complain too loudly about bus prices locally, becuase there is nothing wrong with the skill in the country, and we pay half to a 1/4 of what these guys pay to have work done on their busses. Sure, parts that are imported will cost an arm and a leg, but local labour is lekker !

This brings me to an idea, if someone is willing to spend 50K sterling on a bus restoration, perhaps we should offer a south-african bus restoration specialist service.We ship the bus here, restore to customer spec, then ship it back. That way, local labour makes the money, we can order parts in bulk bringing the prices down for the rest of the local guys, and we bring forex into the country?!

Or am I living in a dream world?
(of course we would need a number of busses to make this happen, one or two won't allow the economies of scale required to do this)
Sorry for the lengthy hijack.

hitlers revenge wrote:Hey Splitz, when can we see your busses??? Why does your dad always keep the garage door closed so nobody can take a peek???

Big stuff is happening behind that closed doors,the fleetline is the same, paint problem , will need a respray.
The panelvan is getting some work done,inside and out,. opening a project thread soon


I have been looking at all the project pages on ssvc website some really amazing stuff going on there.

I'd love to have a resource here that lists the mutts nuts of people who can do stuff to cars. Bodywork, paint, engine, interior etc. That bus forum is pretty impressive, those guys take it to another level and the quality of work is often nipple standing.

To get on the list, the person would have had to have been used by a few members and seen to talk the talk besides walk the walk.

same here , even finding a painter that know what he's doing is a problem.,I have been looking at all our projects paint jobs and find that most have paint problems...DIRK any problems ??

Now I'm a bus owner, I'd like to ideally get it dumped into acid to remove all the crap, they are all over the UK but I've yet to hear anyone here use one.

How do you all remove every ounce of paint, filler, crap, dogs, spiders, dirt, old ladies etc?

Park it in Hillbrow.

bugspray wrote:Park it in Hillbrow.

I think that method of stripping will completely remove the bus aswell

I don't think they have acid baths big enoigh for a bus here.....sandpaper, paint stripper and time is the best way.

Be careful if you decide to get it sandblastered!

yeah won't be going down the sandblasting route, it's just not worth it.

pity about the acid bath

I havent had to go down that route yet, my busses as pretty rust free, I used paint stripper on the dodgy places, but thats it,
Will probably have to check the panel once Im back, think that might have rust and really dodgy areas, but not to sure

karmakoma wrote:...This brings me to an idea, if someone is willing to spend 50K sterling on a bus restoration, perhaps we should offer a south-african bus restoration specialist service.We ship the bus here, restore to customer spec, then ship it back. That way, local labour makes the money, we can order parts in bulk bringing the prices down for the rest of the local guys, and we bring forex into the country?! ...

I think you'll find that Dingleberry established our (SA's) reputation when it comes to doing resto work for the poms. Between him and the bush mechanics who sent our buses to the scrapyards in the first place, SA buses in the UK really only have a (comparative) lack of rust to recommend them.

fig wrote:... SA buses in the UK really only have a (comparative) lack of rust to recommend them.

That is so true the busses overhere are really badly rusted, they look real nice from far but upclose they look