Aircooled VW South Africa

In August last year I acquired two unregistered/paperless '61 project split buses. It's taken 14 months to get them introduced onto the eNatis system and today, they finally became registered in my name, with all the required licensing document etc. (bar the roadworthy naturally).

Until now, I've been holding off starting the projects just in case something went wrong with the registration and all could/would be lost and wasted.

Possibly, the 14 month wait has been a blessing as it's given me time to think and decide on what 'restore' option to settle on.



The first bus (in my avatar) had been parked on a friend's farm in the Winterberg for +-20 years. In the late '80s, whilst the farmer was driving it to the barn for retirement/storing , the bus ran out of petrol on his front lawn. Before he could move it, his young daughter had turned it into a Wendy House. Three daughters and 18 years later the girls had grown up and were now embarrassed about the scrap metal thing still parked in the front lawn. So when I showed interest in it they basically begged me to take it away.



The second bus, a DC, had been cannibalized and used as spare parts to keep the first bus going through the '80s. It had been (drivetrainless) flat on it's belly, in the felt, next to the shed for as long as anyone can remember. The farmer insisted I take it too .

Over the past year I've also had time to scout the land for donor parts and I was lucky to find a home made buggy which had been built from a written off Fleetline. The drive train and engine were a perfect fit for the DC.

Another lucky find was a '66 ambulance which had been used for target practice for the last ten years.

Together they virtually furnished me with all the bits and pieces I was missing.

So now I just need to find a way of splitting this post into two project links and I can go and work/play with my buses.

See! You are living proof that legal registrations can be done!!! Congratulations dude. All the best with the project cars, they certainly are a lot of fun when things go right

Man that second bus is beutiful i would get it on wheels and run it as is

If you ever want to sell it please let me know first.

good luck with your projects

congrats those are some seriously cool projects

Congrats !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Enjoy the projects !

Waaaayyy cool. And imagine, them begging you to take away a 61!!! aarrghh, can't we all be that lucky.
Happy for you.
Now to follow through. When will the first one be running and at a show

Congrats!!!

What would be cool is any tips/tricks to getting the process done smoothly (ok 14 months isn't smoothly, but you get the idea)

Well done Chris.Enjoy the retorations.

Yeh right. It wasn't as easy as waiting 14 months for normal Elephant gestation.

The first 8 months were spent going backwards and forwards to the licensing, weight bridge, car theft, vehicle identification, etc etc departments getting all the necessary documentation in perrrrrfect order before licensing would accept them for processing. One day I'll write a book on that ordeal alone.

Then it was a 6 month wait for Bisho to process them. Even then I still don't have any info on the papers for my Beach Buggy intro. So it's only really 2 out of 3.

At least the part is over and the fun part can begin.

So 14 months with no posts on your projects.....you have a lot to make up for!

Love both the buses and can't wait to see 2 project threads created and the work to start.

Congratulations

VW-rules wrote:

Did Goblin work on this Bus...it's slammed to the ground

You better remove these pics....Fig's gonna get you good

Hey i never thought ov that why go to all the trouble to narrow and slam the beam if you can just take the wheels off

if it ain't low, you aint got no ho!

I'm thinking of starting up the SA charter of SteeringBoxScrapers

I love that DC that would have made a cool ride... 2 bad its going to be choped up and used as a donor

YvaneS wrote:I love that DC that would have made a cool ride... 2 bad its going to be choped up and used as a donor

WHAT!!!!