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Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:11 am

heres my freshly painted hitop

Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:17 am

Schaaweeeeeet ^^^^^

Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:13 pm

BOOM !

Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:59 pm

^^^ Oh man! speechless...

Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:58 am

heres the resto link http://www.ssvc.org.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=70229

Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:31 am

Looks awesome buddy can't wait to see it finished :-)

Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:18 pm

HiTop gathering update - http://www.ssvc.org.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=79232

Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:40 pm

211vanman wrote: heres the resto link http://www.ssvc.org.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=70229

Dayummm ! That makes me drool.

Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:41 pm

Wow! absolutely gorgeous! Keep up the good work, can't wait to see the final product. What color is that ? :D

Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:34 am

here's another one in the UK getting there as well.

swiss post van sold by me a few years ago.

Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:07 am

oorwullie wrote:

Is that a window cut into the sliding door ?

Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:15 am

yup. quite a useful thing. :D

there's a few earlier pics on this thread if you go back several years.

Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:53 pm

So is anyone running chunky tires on there's? Thinking of going back to stock height and running decent tires on it for some trail bashing antics :D

Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:34 pm

A quick question to revive this thread;

Swiss High Roof Postbuses were yellow (???), does anyone know for sure if they had any logo on them? Does one survive in OG paint with a logo (if there was one)?

May be something like this diecast model?

Edit: Ok googled for a better pic and this is what came up (though I am not sure if its in Swiss Postbus paint scheme);

Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:12 am

Hi

Here is a pic of my model postbus, bought in Switzerland when we lived there a few years ago. I found an ex army bus but we couldn't afford it as we were saving to go travelling at the time, so my wife bought me this!

Hope it helps a bit.

Simon

Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:16 am

hubcap wrote: Hi

Here is a pic of my model postbus, bought in Switzerland when we lived there a few years ago. I found an ex army bus but we couldn't afford it as we were saving to go travelling at the time, so my wife bought me this!

Hope it helps a bit.

Simon

Thanks Simon, you pinned it. Nice gift there :)

Can you please post a closeup of the logo for all of us? I would very much want to have a closer look at the logo to rather get an idea of its exact position on the sliding door.

Thanks in advance

Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:35 pm

Gentlemen, I present to you "Evolet", recently unearthed, Pakistan's Only Split Highroof, 1965 (Sept. 64) RHD Walthrough Swiss Postbus (sliding door/belly pan). Yours truly is the new owner. :)

Pictures as seen after surfacing after 25yrs of hiding:

For your comments please.

Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:48 pm

^^ Great find !!! Love it

Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:54 pm

mtnbus wrote: ^^ Great find !!! Love it

Thanks man. Yeah it surely is, especially for the fact that Pakistan gets its first highroof.

Though in pictures it might look rather pretty beat up but matter of factly, its pretty straight with the exception of rear left corner. However lower 6-8" are all rotten and looks like Gerson is gonna love doing this one with his funky green panels :)

About the paint, OG Swiss Postbus paint is all there somewhere under the ugly blue which will buff out, I am sure, in its own good time.

Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:45 pm

if that's really an original swiss front license plate on the back then you have a rare collectors item. :D