My fishing cabin 1951 Kleinbus

Rich's 50 · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 1:41 pm Post subject:

Very Cool

low54 · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 1:46 pm Post subject:

Great find Cool

Keep the pictures coming when you start
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Jacks · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:47 am Post subject:

Any more progress or photos on this?
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Combinations · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 1:41 pm Post subject:

Beautiful patina!!

Demian_S · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:28 pm Post subject:

Jacks · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 6:12 pm Post subject:

Wow

thanks for posting that! How did you know?
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50 split · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 2:25 am Post subject:

When I picked it, the owner told that rumor says that it´s Alice Babs old bus.

I was like "yes, that kind of story I´ve heard before"

But, this was back in my head, and then the old car magazine showed up on Ebay, and I could tell by the colors it could be right.
Then I put this on swedish boxerville.se forums, and than a friend, who´s father worked as mechanic at the local vw dealer back in the 50´s, and Alice Babs showed up with her bus, and he took a photo of him and Alice, in front of her bus.
There are "stamps" of an old roofrack on my bus, and hole for a searchlight, and then when this photo showed up it I were really sure this is the bus! Smile

This will not be a quick fix, the plan is to go to the Hessisch Oldendorf 2021, when the car turns 70 years old, and go back to the factory too.

This spring i was lucky, when a complete, but shortened chassis showed up for sale in my region. This was used as a "tractor" back in the days, so the guy making it, shorted a chassis from a bus, that he got a hold of, when he was working at the local vw dealer. This chassis was complete with front beam, gearbox, steer-wheel and so on.
Not any ch number or anything, but the barndoor guys told it shuld be made ~mid 51 - end of 52. "Alice" (the bus) is a september 51, so this chassis would be all correct for the bus.

When I got it home, I checked the numbers on the frontbeam and the gearbox, and I could not believe what I found, a chassis from SEPTEMBER 1951, to my bus who are a SEPTEMBER 1951....
SICK!! The two cars would have been on the same shipment to Sweden back in 1951!

Some pictures:
my blog:
http://50split.wordpress.com/category/bilarcars/barndoor/

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type 1: 50, 51 (kabrio), 51, 52(zwitter), 56, 57, 58, 60, 60, 61, 63, 63, 64, 65, 72
type 2: 51, 54 Taxi (H-O 2026), 54, 56, 58, 65 (Fridge van), 67(bay) 68, 68, 70, 70 (Burnt westy), 71 (westy) 72, 73, 73, 75, 96 (Kombi)
type 3: variant 62 (october), 66 fasty: 66 (Teak), 67
Tempo: Matador 50(world´s oldest)
DKW: Schnellast 52, E300 29
Porsche: 356 65
Eriba: Puck 65
Alfredo (tent trailer) 59
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obieoberstar · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 6:29 pm Post subject:

A Swedish celebrity owned your bus AND you found a correct chassis for it 60+ years later?

I would say that you are off to a good start.

I will follow this one for sure.

beetleseb · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:59 pm Post subject:

A cool bus for a cool guy Smile

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Shoyrtt · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 5:10 pm Post subject:

Daniel, can you start another thread and tell us about your 54 Barndoor find also?

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