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Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:52 pm

(Pic borrowed from the gallery)

How rare is this SO-34 as far as color/year etc. ?

You don't see a lot of Flipseat buses let alone turkis ones.

Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:17 pm

Well that there is a pretty sweet bus... rare as the rest of them for what it's worth :) turkis on a 61 is cool flipseat in a 61 is cool, congrats on that beauty!

here is my turkis flip... but it is just a 63 :oops:

Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:23 pm

bmx2c4me wrote:
(Pic borrowed from the gallery)

How rare is this SO-34 as far as color/year etc. ?

You don't see a lot of Flipseat buses let alone turkis ones.
This bus is super duper rare, as it is a April 1961 turkis/bw flipseat. It is rare simply for being an April 1961 turkis bus, let alone the flipseat part. Pretty cool. Then again, the April 1961 thing probably doesn't mean squat to anyone but me, I like April 1961. It has that pointy dash/ later parcel tray thing going on:

Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:31 pm

KrisBalfe wrote:

This bus was made 5th April 1961, VIN 756 xxx, and like yours has the early parcel tray, but lookes like the cut out in the speedo pod is for the later tray:

Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:37 am

Clara wrote: bmx2c4me wrote:
(Pic borrowed from the gallery)

How rare is this SO-34 as far as color/year etc. ?

You don't see a lot of Flipseat buses let alone turkis ones.
This bus is super duper rare, as it is a April 1961 turkis/bw flipseat. It is rare simply for being an April 1961 turkis bus, let alone the flipseat part. Pretty cool. Then again, the April 1961 thing probably doesn't mean squat to anyone but me, I like April 1961. It has that pointy dash/ later parcel tray thing going on:

I guess that makes Kris's bus rare too since the color is SK692A??

BTW - Kris, nice work, you remind me of this nut in OH. :wink:

Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:27 pm

check out the classifieds for light green over dark green so-34 westy. I guess that there are now going to be 2 westys w/ that paint in utah! you go chris!

Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:28 pm

check out the classifieds for light green over dark green so-23 westy. I guess that there are now going to be 2 westys w/ that paint in utah! you go chris!

Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:06 pm

Huh? :?:

Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:53 pm

KrisBalfe wrote: Huh? :?:

I think he's saying that there's another bus for sale with the same paint code;
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=583598
Light green over dark green.

Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:48 am

something like that.

Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:30 pm

My 62 flipseat is light gray: how unusual is that color?

K

Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:12 pm

bmx2c4me wrote:
(Pic borrowed from the gallery)

How rare is this SO-34 as far as color/year etc. ?

You don't see a lot of Flipseat buses let alone turkis ones.

Really, really regret selling this one. Here's one of the last pix before it went to NorCal (I actually repainted the roof and scored the orginal Turkis bullets before it left). I sectioned in the rocker/floor very similar to the way KrisBalfe did. This bus was VERY rusty (the floor/rocker section I replaced was actually missing when I got it, and you could put your foot through the middle of the front floor.....not just the outer sections!).

Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:15 pm

62 flipseat that's cool do you have any pics,

Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:17 pm

adam beefcake bruno wrote: bmx2c4me wrote:
(Pic borrowed from the gallery)

How rare is this SO-34 as far as color/year etc. ?

You don't see a lot of Flipseat buses let alone turkis ones.

Really, really regret selling this one. Here's one of the last pix before it went to NorCal (I actually repainted the roof and scored the orginal Turkis bullets before it left). I sectioned in the rocker/floor very similar to the way KrisBalfe did. This bus was VERY rusty (the floor/rocker section I replaced was actually missing when I got it, and you could put your foot through the middle of the front floor.....not just the outer sections!).

Nice work on that one sorry you sold it too, hope it went somewhere good

Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:24 pm

Clara wrote: bmx2c4me wrote: (Pic borrowed from the gallery)

How rare is this SO-34 as far as color/year etc. ?

You don't see a lot of Flipseat buses let alone turkis ones. This bus is super duper rare, as it is a April 1961 turkis/bw flipseat. It is rare simply for being an April 1961 turkis bus, let alone the flipseat part. Pretty cool. Then again, the April 1961 thing probably doesn't mean squat to anyone but me, I like April 1961. It has that pointy dash/ later parcel tray thing going on:
that bus is the oldest known turkis bus...

Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:31 pm

Prof...do we know that for a fact?

Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:55 pm

Clara wrote: Lind, is it really the oldest known turkis bus? Perhaps one should qualify that with "still existing".
The brochure flipseat is a turkis high hinge bus, FWIW. Although I've heard no rumors of that bus surfacing.
turkis/bluewhite started in april '61, and that bus is april 6th 1961.
high hinge ended a few months before that, so any high hinge turkis bus would have likely been a prototype. maybe westfalia made a turkis/bluewhite prototype flipseat and VW liked the color so much that they started the color mid-year.

I would like to see a dozen earlier turkis buses show up, but until they do, that is the oldest known turkis bus still in existence.

Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:06 am

KrisBalfe wrote: adam beefcake bruno wrote: bmx2c4me wrote:
(Pic borrowed from the gallery)

How rare is this SO-34 as far as color/year etc. ?

You don't see a lot of Flipseat buses let alone turkis ones.

Really, really regret selling this one. Here's one of the last pix before it went to NorCal (I actually repainted the roof and scored the orginal Turkis bullets before it left). I sectioned in the rocker/floor very similar to the way KrisBalfe did. This bus was VERY rusty (the floor/rocker section I replaced was actually missing when I got it, and you could put your foot through the middle of the front floor.....not just the outer sections!).

Nice work on that one sorry you sold it too, hope it went somewhere good

It recently came back to WA :) the roof is prettier now.
Here is is between a April 11, 1961 deluxe and a April 18, 1961 SO-34
I've always thought it was a neat bus.

Interesting idea about the brouchure westy being a special order paint or westfalia paint bus. That color was popular for a number of makes in the early 60s.

Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:10 am

That Turkis '61 is simply gorgeous. Reminds me of the Mouse Gray '61 standard sunroof recently uncovered....

Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:23 am

The interior needs a LOT of work. The cabinets are in somewhat rough shape, and missing some hardware. The wooden frame the cushions sit on is trash. All the interior paneling is gone. The wooden bows around the subhatch are rotten (of course, as they tend to be.) There is a rust hole above the engine... a little more welding needs to be done before the interior is sorted out.
It also had no front seat bottom. The seat back and cushions need padding and recovering.
But it does have most of the cabinets, and with some work it'll be nice on the inside too, and campable. That stuff I feel good about doing, while the rust issues kept me from pursuing it when it was for sale in Texas cheap some years ago.
It is also a running driving bus, which, of course, is nice.
I think Adam did a great job of keeping as much of the og paint as possible while fixing rust.