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

Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:36 am

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

Whoa, I need one of those. How much is shipping to USA, 78664?

:lol:

Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:43 pm

BENTYL wrote:
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/ Remember that the factory had a reconditioning line set up for wrecked or damaged CCG and BAOR cars. Nothing was wasted back then. The wrecks were disassembled and rebuilt, often with a new body. This would explain a factory '47 body on a '46 chassis.

Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:32 pm

Yep-Blue Baron is right ! They "recycled" a lot of CCG Cars ...(and also kubels.)

Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:30 pm

OK, thanks Baron.
My "real" -46 is a recycled -43 so maybe your right. http://www.vwsplit.se/mapp01/mapp01.htm

I checked my collection of early VW-pictures and found those pictures of ID-plates:

Anyone who have more pictures of early ID-plates or examples of "recycled" cars?
(Isn't strange that I got two of them...) :shock:
/B

Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:43 pm

I looked at your split junkyard site. All those old split you found are you gonna try to restore them or just leave it like that?

Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:26 pm

One possibility is that it was built in 45 or 46 shipped to the occupation military, damaged in an accident and refurbished and shipped back out again, with mixed tags and parts. They stripped any and all that they got back for usable parts, definately in 46 and probably into mid 47 somewhere.

Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:37 pm

Brett Ross wrote: I looked at your split junkyard site. All those old split you found are you gonna try to restore them or just leave it like that?
Well, I really hope we will have the money and time to restore most of them. (at least the better ones)
My brother and I dream to built up a real VW-split museum with restored and unrestored cars. The -40 wrecks we found should be like we find them with a sign who tells the story behind each car.

Untill then, the site www.vwsplit.se is our museum... :wink:
/B

Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:23 pm

BENTYL wrote: Brett Ross wrote: I looked at your split junkyard site. All those old split you found are you gonna try to restore them or just leave it like that?
Well, I really hope we will have the money and time to restore most of them. (at least the better ones)
My brother and I dream to built up a real VW-split museum with restored and unrestored cars. The -40 wrecks we found should be like we find them with a sign who tells the story behind each car.

Untill then, the site www.vwsplit.se is our museum... :wink:
/B
If you do ever restore those old splits then post some pics it would be interesting to see.