Aircooled VW South Africa

Does anybody know how many crossover buses, panelvan, single cabs and double cabs was manufactured in South Africa ?

Not specifically 72 model I made the mistake at ferdi's to generalise a bus to be a 72 while educating one of my twins, but it was a late 71 model and man was I in the dog box. So I guess any late 71 to early 73 "crossover" models. Lowlight in the front and square light of the late bay in the back.

Also if someone has one of these be it project or saved let's see those pictures.



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Everyone stumped here ?


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The baywindow "crossover" bus is indeed a 1972 model year only. Remember that VW model years ran from August to July, so the 1972 model year cars were built between August 1971 and July 1972.

I don't know how many were made in SA, but I do know that 1972 was the peak year for baywindow production. IIRC they made about 1,500 of them every day. I'll look up some figures later.

Great thanks fig. Just have not seen many double and single cabs in SA will be nice to know. I am busy with one Bus and maybe soon one Double cab both crossovers.


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My old lady spotted this one near the Angola boarder last week.

And I spotted this panelvan
one also last weekend on a wine farm outside of Paarl.

Nice clean panelvan there


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According to the table posted ion thesamba.com (https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/in ... #baywindow), the 1972 model year saw 294,932 buses built, which was the highest total of buses built in any year of air-cooled production. Breakdown by model was as follows: Microbus 25.7%, Kombi 35.0%, Ambulance 0.7%, Panelvan 21.6%, Double cab pick-up 6.5%, Single cab pick-up 10.5%.

The breakdown per model changed each year, but the proportions remained similar through the years. In 1972, more than 50,000 pick-ups were built. It's anyone's guess how many of those were earmarked for ZA.

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Thanks fig. Appreciate it. Certainly interesting to see wonder what those figures will be for SA
A nice one will be if people out there can send some pics of their crossovers.
I certainly have not seen a lot of them and have also asked the question on Facebook with some success.
So let's have it it acvwsa lets see those crossovers in all their glory all different flavours !!

JC sorry your link seems incomplete please repost if possible.



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This used to be mine, but then it landed up in the skip.
It was also a Westfalia.

http://www.aircooledvwsa.co.za/viewtopi ... 23&t=32846

Hope this works

sean wrote:My old lady spotted this one near the Angola boarder last week.

Sean's scouts at work

I came across this at a scrap yard a few years ago, cross-over Deluxe.

I can kick myself now for not salvaging it.

This one also ended up in the skip !!!