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vw76westy
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 Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject: vw trailer (not custom made) |
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has any body ever seen or even just know about a vw trailer!!! it looks like it has the back end of a bay window.the height is where the bottom of the hatch would be. visulize a bus cut in half at the back of the sliding door & using a split window westy top for a lid.  i saw one on tv about eating in spain or something.then i saw another on u tube showing a vw camp out in canada  utube title-vw busfusion(no space between bus & fusion). has a green bus  i want to learn more about this trailer |
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Mr. Bubblehead
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VDubTech
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No he isn't referring to an Eriba, since it looks nothing like a Bus cut in half. Gregg Potts in Canada has a trailer he made to look like a Bay window, and using a cut down Westy top.
And then there is this one...though it looks nothing like a Splitty top.
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:00 am Post subject: Home-built trailors |
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No he isn't referring to an Eriba, since it looks nothing like a Bus cut in half. Gregg Potts in Canada has a trailer he made to look like a Bay window, and using a cut down Westy top.
And then there is this one...though it looks nothing like a Splitty top.
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In Great Britain and possibly Europe also, if these trailors of more than 1·3 metres (i.e. 4'3") overall width, were created after circa October 1979, then they must be equipped with obligatory rear fog lamps, which must be capable of functioning, even when towed by an old vehicle, which of itself, is not obliged to have rear fog lamps.
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jtauxe 
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I like the mini-bus green and white one. Funny how the mirrors were even left in place. Does it have windshield wipers, too?
Ya know, since the trailer demands power for lights, I wonder how tricky it would be to attach a generator to an axle to produce trailer power and charge its own battery... Of course, you don't get something for nothing, and the trailer would be that much harder to tow.
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EZ Gruv
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I always liked this one...not what you are looking for though.
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vw76westy
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| is that the red trailer i saw on u tube its close but no cigar to what im looking for |
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:22 am Post subject: Home-built trailers |
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I always liked this one...not what you are looking for though.
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A legal requirement for all trailers in Great Britain and Europe, which I noticed were not fitted to these trailers, featured from the USA or Canada, are large, triangular, red reflectors at the rear.
This Dutch one one has the triangular reflectors.
Trailors whose length (excluding the drawbar), exceeds 2·3 metres (i.e. 7'6"), must also have white, front-marker lamps.
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dwill49965
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| I like the mini-bus green and white one. Funny how the mirrors were even left in place. Does it have windshield wipers, too? |
I've always liked it too. More on the "Double Dutch" bus and construction of it here:
http://www.doubledutchbus.nl/
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busdaddy
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vw76westy
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yes ! it was that show & i have wanted that trailer ever since. but i guess that just like the other traiers its cutom  since we are on the subject lets see some more trailers  |
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Birdibus
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trailer made from two buses
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:16 am Post subject: Custom-built trailers |
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Jamie Oliver's split-screen, VW Type 2 & kitchen trailer, was recently put up for auction, for which the anticipated price, was reckoned to be something in the region of £50,000. At only about one third of the average UK house price, this should be a mere snip for your average North American, what!?!
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