santa came early !!

[splitbusahollic]

at 11: 35 this morning this truck drove into PE bringing 3 of my new projects home !!


the three buses are the following :
'57 ambulance





a rare '58 with winding windows in the back and a external corner compartment !







and then the little blue one....


and that's it for now folks......

[jolas]

Oh my oath ................................ what a sight !!!!!

Fig wrote about this camper or a similar camper years ago, on the vintagebus.com I think, what a find man .....

Can't get over this lot, really, congtrats man, and an ambulance with bits and bobs, eish !

Which one are you going to restore first ? Good luck and enjoy

[bugspray]

Wow! Absolutly WOW!

[Bugger]

Holy moly congrats man where the hell did you find these busses like the rag top

[ZeroAxe]

You have been screwed over.... This is a fake. Those tail lights are not even the right model year!!

[eben]

Nice buses!!!

[splitbusahollic]

Thanks Guys...been working on this since August...
jolas , it is the same bus Fig mentioned on the Vintage site..

http://vintagebus.com/cgi-bin/gallery-s ... g&reverse=

half way down the page

i saw these buses in 1988 in the same place they were when i bought them in 2010 !!
in fact the pic's Fig posted is exactly where the rag top stood when i bought it !!
they need LOADS of work but i think they are special buses and i am a lucky man !
there are 3 more to come but we will only fetch them in jan 2011.
i am stoked !!

[splitbusahollic]

just in case you are thinking that i am being greedy buying so many buses...let me explain my idea :
(my wife by the way thinks that im crazy,but she loves me so much she overlooks my disorders !hahaha)
i intend restoring and turning them into campers..then hire them out to tourists to travel the Addo ellephant park, jeffereys bay and the Garden route in a vintage bus !! whether it will work remains to be seen but being in PE is central on the coast so it may be seasonal but it may also work !?
some thoughts on this will be great..........

[Klaus]

Nice one - I see Craig is finally letting some of the buses go to be restored /used - well done really good going !

[karmakoma]

What a sight!

That 58 Ragtop, aint she sweet. Good idea on the tours, I am pretty sure once word gets round you could be onto something. Good marketing and even better insurance would be key... Good luck with the projects

[CooP]

Congratulations, I am having a couple for you

You're gonna be spending a lot of time in the Projects thread...

[fig]

Congratulations! It's very unusual for Craig to actually sell anything. I bought The Ratmobile from him back in January 1993. He has lived on that farm since 1974 and has been collecting scrap VWs on it ever since; I first met him in the 1980s, when his collection was at its best. Unfortunately a few veld fires and scrap metal thieves caused a lot of damage. At one stage he had three Karmann Ghias and five oval windows in one of his sheds.

It's sad to see how that 58 camper has deteriorated since it arrived there. I'm glad someone can give it the TLC it deserves. It's a very interesting bus; I hope you can find out more about who built it.

I think a vintage VW camper hire may go down very well in the southern Cape.

[splitbusahollic]

Thanks Fig...half his house got burned down..i think that made him decide to sell and a good price !!(in his favour of course)
the 4 Karmann's are still there and some other stuff....i'm not sure if he'll sell more stuff or not...
i will chat some more with you regarding the 58 camper in due course..

[Klaus]

[quote="splitbusahollic"]Thanks Fig...half his house got burned down.. quote]


Thats when he lost his split bug (posted in the wrecked thread) Very sad. I hope he would allow restoration of the other vehicles in his possesion.

[fig]

So that was Craig's split that burned? I knew he had a 51; didn't know who was involved in that story.