TheSamba.com :: View topic - Strange -47 found in Sweden

Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:06 pm

Hello,
This wreck was found and rescue in Sweden this year.

Now see this:

It looks like a -47 but in my world "1-056950" should be an early -46... or? :?

Then I remember the ugly green -45/-47 who have the same problem...
(chassi # "1-053572"=-45 but stampt as a "1947")

Anyone who know something about this? :roll:
/Björn Svanberg, Sweden
www.vwsplit.se

More pics from our -47 wreck:
http://www.vwsplit.se/pic/47/

Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:13 pm

would love to see progress shots :roll:

Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:51 pm

I don't know if there are any plans for it, but it seems to me that metal such as shown in the pictures after sitting outside rusting all these years must be paper thin and just as fragile.

Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:16 pm

It's ready for a rag top conversion.

Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:53 pm

zoti wrote: It's ready for a rag top conversion.

They didn't have rag top's in 47 :roll:

Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:26 pm

Does the engine turn over?

Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:56 am

:D
Not sure if its possible to make a car of it again... Maybe in 2058 if I start now... :?

But if we try I promise to show some progress shots of it. :wink:
/B

Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:58 am

please do! and how did you come across the car? i want to go mushroom picking in sweden too...

Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:54 am

tstracy39 wrote: Does the engine turn over?

I think that at this condition it's not going to be all original anyways :P

Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:55 am

BENTYL wrote: :D
Not sure if its possible to make a car of it again... Maybe in 2058 if I start now... :?

But if we try I promise to show some progress shots of it. :wink:
/B

In 2058 you will probably be able to go back in time to the day they left it there and throw a tarp over it so you can save it in 2008.

Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:42 am

zoti wrote: BENTYL wrote: :D
Not sure if its possible to make a car of it again... Maybe in 2058 if I start now... :?

But if we try I promise to show some progress shots of it. :wink:
/B

In 2058 you will probably be able to go back in time to the day they left it there and throw a tarp over it so you can save it in 2008.

LOL!

Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:57 am

Can you say,"Skim coat"?

Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:23 pm

Wow, it went this long and nobody said it?????

That $h%t will rub out :D

Well, maybe not :D

Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:30 pm

Just set it on a late model pan and, Viola! Hoodride extraordinaire!

Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:36 pm

Incredible that despite everything being nearly gone the rear glass is still there and seemingly unbroken. Also strange that the ID tag has screw heads instead of rivets, any other signs that its actually a 47?

Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:42 pm

Somewhat off the topic but I checked out an original '47 beetle ID plate I purchased many years ago in Gemany for my '47 beetle (the ID plate on my '47 at the time was in pretty sad shape). Although it is hard to see by the photo, this chassis number is 1-056680 - exactly 270 bugs older than this Swedish bug. Fortunately, my '47 (although long since sold) was in much better condition.

Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:51 pm

Don't take any of this personally, most of us here have paid $ for worse cars than that. And not just a little $ either.
Just as a joke take it to the paint shop and ask if they can match that color green :twisted: and how much they'd charge for a respray. Videotape the reaction and post it. I'd be more interested in seeing that than another restoration album.

Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:55 pm

kaferdude wrote:

The ID plate on my '47 is of a different style compared to that one. My ID plate is of the acid etched variety, not embossed.

Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:56 am

Brezelwerks wrote: Incredible that despite everything being nearly gone the rear glass is still there and seemingly unbroken. Also strange that the ID tag has screw heads instead of rivets, any other signs that its actually a 47?

Yes, I think ist a -47 (or a -46)
Here some pics:

I havent found the chassi# on the pan yet but I will try to do that.
/B

Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:14 am

olo wrote: please do! and how did you come across the car? i want to go mushroom picking in sweden too...

I havent found this one by my self. The mushroom picker who I got it from, found it when he cleaning up a military area. :D
/B