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Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:10 am

my wolfsburg logo'd bus "oremaster",it will get a sympathetic restoration in the yrs to come

ive had a couple handfulls of the pg/sg buses over the yrs,most met sawzalls in the 90s,believe it or not buses were not valuable in the 90s and early/original paint didnt appeal to most

Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:34 pm

jerry.t wrote:

you still planning on chopping the top? i thought you was going to be done by now,

yeah, i just need to find the right person that can chop it 9" correctly.

Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:27 am

When I first bought it

Now
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Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:37 am

hugheseum wrote:
ive had a couple handfulls of the pg/sg buses over the yrs,most met sawzalls in the 90s,believe it or not buses were not valuable in the 90s and early/original paint didnt appeal to most

This bus was given to the PO, who left it sitting a few years
The PPO did the paint job. I can't believe that house paint lasted so long, it kept flaking off.
It was painted before '83 dead tour.
It has an original left taillight, and some gnarley cut wheel wells:

Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:51 pm

my 58 westy pg sg

Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:13 am

What colour would the gas tank and straps be in a PG/SG bus? Black?

Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:42 am

Ya know what I think would be bad-ass? A PGSG 23-window...

UZI wrote:

Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:18 am

thom wrote: Ya know what I think would be bad-ass? A PGSG 23-window...

Im sure that would make some peoples brains melt out of their noses.

or maybe just mine.

thats like pg/sg on a fried egg panel.

Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:46 am

sled wrote: thom wrote: Ya know what I think would be bad-ass? A PGSG 23-window...

Im sure that would make some peoples brains melt out of their noses.

or maybe just mine.

thats like pg/sg on a fried egg panel.

so that would make you mad?
why, they came that way. everything in print shows PGSG on std's and deluxes. so surely VW made PGSG 23's.... i dont know if they were a hot item. I spoke of a pgsg 15 in this thread, and it was backed up (hearsay) by another member. if there exists a pgsg 15, there surely was a pgsg 23.
im personally tired of seeing row after row of SWR/CB 23 windows of all years. make me wanna voimt. :D

pics of pgsg deluxes...anyone? has to be a pic somewhere.

Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:40 pm

check wagenswest site. There is a pg/sg deluxe (kevins bus). He is the guy who did all the racing with it. It was for sale on the samba some time ago. It looks like this is not a real pg/sg as those colours stoped in 1958. Either way it does look good on a deluxe. IMO pg/sg is the best colour combo period and I am lucky enough to own one. I do feel it would be out of place on a later bus though.

Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:22 pm

dave, as soon as a picture surfaces of an original paint 15 or 23, Ill believe they were built. Hard to believe there are photographs of almost every other volkswagen imaginable, yet none of a deluxe pg/sg bus.

I dont think deluxe trim would look good on pg/sg.

$.02

Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:36 pm

I have been blessed.

Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:41 pm

DeadEndVW wrote:

I have been blessed.

sick. :D

Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:39 pm

per request... :lol:

Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:56 pm

I always said SGPG.... not the other way around.

:?

Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:50 pm

Towed the PG/SG from the PO's to our place at the lake with a towbar. The bus had not moved in 35 years and had been sitting without wheels on the forest floor. Only one drum was seized, and it broke free easy. After slow towing for a couple km's, it rolled perfectly. Washed the lichens off of it and it looks better.

Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:56 pm

mabalot5150 wrote: jerry.t wrote:

you still planning on chopping the top? i thought you was going to be done by now,

yeah, i just need to find the right person that can chop it 9" correctly.

have you tried boxrod? he does some good work.

Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:27 pm

Riff Raff wrote: Towed the PG/SG from the PO's to our place at the lake with a towbar. The bus had not moved in 35 years and had been sitting without wheels on the forest floor. Only one drum was seized, and it broke free easy. After slow towing for a couple km's, it rolled perfectly. Washed the lichens off of it and it looks better.

We need to see the "before" pics, please.

Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:29 pm

cdennisg wrote:
We need to see the "before" pics, please.

Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:01 pm

It looks much happier now. Thanks.