Aircooled VW South Africa

Hi guys,

Been looking for quite sometime now and finally stumbled upon her. We collected her last week Friday and was super excited to finally have her home. Shes a 74 Baywindow, apparently a one owner bus. Here are a few photos from the day that we collected her.











Shes complete, not missing anything that i know of except for the rear door inner panel. Has all her seats, door panels and wheel caps. We have since then stripepd out the seats and threw out the old carpets, scrubbed, and cleaned the floors, door panels and seats. Cut new boards for the front and rear door.

Will upload more when i get some time.

Thanks for looking.
Robin

Congrats, I am glad to see that my add paid off.

Hope you have many happy travels and accumulate a lifetime's worth of memories with the bus.

The most important thing needed before a long trip is to replace the engine seal to prevent overheating.

Enjoy the life of bay travels that you will be starting

What was the damage for the bus if I might ask

jmvv wrote:Congrats, I am glad to see that my add paid off.

Hope you have many happy travels and accumulate a lifetime's worth of memories with the bus.

The most important thing needed before a long trip is to replace the engine seal to prevent overheating.

Hi jmvv, Thanks soo much!!!

Yes, your the reason with have our bus today, without your add we would have still been looking for our bus.

The oil seal that you are referring to is that the slight leak that the bus has?

Warwick-Lowlight wrote:Enjoy the life of bay travels that you will be starting

What was the damage for the bus if I might ask

Thanks Warwick! We looking forward to fun times in her!

We paid R22 000.00

Nice ! Looks mooi ! Congrats

Golfmad wrote:Nice ! Looks mooi ! Congrats

Thanks Golfmad!!

@NTO Congratulation! She looks awesome. We should all do a road once I have my bus sorted and running.

congrats on your new bus, enjoy the roadtrips !!!

yohbie wrote:@NTO Congratulation! She looks awesome. We should all do a road once I have my bus sorted and running.

Thanks a stack yohbie! We are very excited about her and can't wait to get working on her again. Will hold you too it hope your bus is on the road really soon

jolas wrote: congrats on your new bus, enjoy the roadtrips !!!

Thanks jolas! I remember chatting to you when I found the forum, long ago.. it's great to now finally post photos of our own bus. Thanks for the help back then and believe me, we can't wait for the road trips too start

NTO wrote:

jmvv wrote:
The oil seal that you are referring to is that the slight leak that the bus has?

You will notice a gap between the engine tin (black bit) and the body structure (lighter bit) in the picture.

A dedicated rubber seal goes in there to prevent hot air from the bottom of the engine being sucked back into the cooling fan, thus reducing cooling efficiency.

jmvv wrote:

NTO wrote:

jmvv wrote:
The oil seal that you are referring to is that the slight leak that the bus has?

You will notice a gap between the engine tin (black bit) and the body structure (lighter bit) in the picture.

A dedicated rubber seal goes in there to prevent hot air from the bottom of the engine being sucked back into the cooling fan, thus reducing cooling efficiency.

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Aaahhh yes, i see that!! Ill try and get a replacement, Valie gave me the name of a place last night that makes door and window seals, want to get hold of them today and ill ask them about that seal, thanks for pointing it out!

thats a sweet looking bus, congrats

MarshallGTi wrote:thats a sweet looking bus, congrats

Thanks Ryan!!

Will post more photos of the progress we have on her thus far.