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Oct 29, 2005 12:40:13 GMT
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So what's the deal with this Type 2 support truck? robbed from the Asconna thread 23 window samba split screen rear 1/4 windows but without any roof windows as far as I can tell and bay window rear lights?
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Oct 29, 2005 13:06:15 GMT
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id guess its one of those south american bay/ split busses.bay front with a samba rear. don't have any pics, but I'm sure darren will.
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Type 2 questionarthurbrown
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Oct 29, 2005 13:10:12 GMT
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There was one of those for sale on the bay last week.... looked really odd!
Agree with TCC that they were built for the Brazilian market.
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Oct 29, 2005 13:25:49 GMT
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as soon as you move away from europe and america you get odd variations.... the vehicles tended to be built locally out of kits sent from wolfsburg, as time goes on a few parts are stockpiled and then the design changes so old meets new. my friend has an irish-built beetle that is a '74 registered, it has a lateish body but most of the bolt-on bits are much earlier so it just looks badly restored. or that splitty might just have been badly repaired on a related note, i've just been looking through the VW options lists - see www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/mcodest2.php - these are the codes printed on the build plate showing what was specified for your vehicle in the factory. they even had the modding scene wrapped up back in the 60's.... option 149 dechroming, 156 is a bigger air filter and 100 was debadged
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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HytestA
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Cant beat a good bit of rubbing :D
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Oct 29, 2005 22:30:15 GMT
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thats probably a South African Fleetline or one of the many variants from Brazil. Brazil is full of oddities, bay fronted with split window rear ends, split fronts with bay back ends, 11 window splits with added rear corner windows... the list goes on.
23 and 21 window deluxes isnt that uncommon, they are the 15 and 13 window deluxes. Bizarrely it was an option with the deluxe range to have no roof windows it was also an option to have no sunroof, both being fitted as standard.
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Last Edit: Oct 29, 2005 22:33:54 GMT by HytestA
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Oct 30, 2005 10:24:13 GMT
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'ere, hytesta, what happened to the G? Thought you flogged it, was it the new owner that 'remodelled' it?
< /thread hijack >
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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HytestA
Part of things
Cant beat a good bit of rubbing :D
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Oct 30, 2005 15:31:53 GMT
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yup 'fraid so Unfortunate but these things happen. But the G has given back to the community, its now been broken up and its parts distributed throughout the land
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Oct 30, 2005 21:41:02 GMT
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Cheers guys, thats what I love about splits, the amount of different variations of spec over the years/ countrys. I knew a girl a few years back that had an ex jail bus, no conventional side windows but two sets of roof windows mounted in the side panels!! rotten was not the word for it and I don't know where it ended up
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