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		| volksfahrer.nl Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:11 pm    Post subject: L345, show your light grey busses! |   |  
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				| Starting to like this color more and more... What does your bus look like in that sweet grey?
 
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		| marl345 Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:47 am    Post subject: |   |  
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		| bloovw Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:47 am    Post subject: |   |  
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 i just shed a tear when i saw that bus..
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		| Sweet Rides Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:54 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Why mate? Has it now received the full F Uk`d treatment since that pic was taken? |  | 
	
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		| marl345 Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:17 am    Post subject: |   |  
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	  | Sweet Rides wrote: |  
	  | Why mate? Has it now received the full F Uk`d treatment since that pic was taken? |  
 I have no idea what has happened to that bus since I sold it - I've never seen it since
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		| bloovw Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:47 am    Post subject: |   |  
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	  | Sweet Rides wrote: |  
	  | Why mate? Has it now received the full F Uk`d treatment since that pic was taken? |  
 i dont know what happened to it.. i made a couple of very good friends through that bus.. ie i sold it to them... the "shed a tear" was because i remember all the fun it brought to alot of people...
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		| volksfahrer.nl Samba Member
 
  
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		| bloovw Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:01 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| [quote="volksfahrer.nl"]On topic please   
 
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		| OCTOman Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:04 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Before my bus got it's extreme makeover to be a refrigerated meat delivery bus by a company in Austria, the original color was L345.  The inside of the cab still has it's original paint.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The bus is currently up for sale.  If it doesn't sell, it will eventually find it's way back to L345.
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		| Stocknazi Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:20 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| That refigerator bus is cool.  Think there are some old logos under that fingerpaint stuff? _________________
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 58 Westfalia cabinet knobs (3 needed), roof rack, and (7) privy tent poles (silver painted).
 
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		| diamondgrey Samba Member
 
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:56 am    Post subject: |   |  
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 my may '59
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		| amg3 Samba Member
 
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:17 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| here is my Riviera 
 
 
 
 
 
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		| VWAdam Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:11 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Mine is mostly surface rust, but here's what's left of the L345 on my '64. 
 The driver's door isn't og, btw.
 
 
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		| OCTOman Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:24 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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	  | That refigerator bus is cool.  Think there are some old logos under that fingerpaint stuff? |  
 There are.  You can just make out some outlines.  I've done some small testing to see if the "fingerpaint" will come off.  It doesn't come off as easy as resprayed auto paint.
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		| Ian Samba Moderator
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:50 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I've had it since 2001. It is 90% OG paint, except the door. 
 If anyone has a cargo door, please help!!
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		| Ian Samba Moderator
 
  
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				|  Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:19 am    Post subject: |   |  
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		| Ian Samba Moderator
 
  
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				|  Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:43 am    Post subject: |   |  
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 My M-plate is from a 62 Deluxe, somehow.
   
 I took pictures of the wear spots, the inside headlight bucket and the drivers door. I'm certain my Bus has never been repainted.
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		| vwcrazybus Samba Member
 
  
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		| BUCIOBATISTI Samba Member
 
  
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				|  Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:29 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| 1960 L345 Light Grey Kombi, all original, original paint, 34,500 original miles, 6 popouts, all 3 seats that look like they've never been sat on, original primer inside that has never seen a drop of moisture, absolutely no rust of any kind anywhere, all matching logo Sigla glass all the way around with no blistering/clouding/fogging, original rubber throughout.  This shot is before I stuck the NOS Commercial hubcaps on it several years back... 
 
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				|  Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:33 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| interior, yes, that's the original primer on the doors, floors, etc.... 
 
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