Does anyone have information of the BD Sambas productions?

[Pepillo]

Someone has the information of the Barndoor Sambas produced before 1955.

Thanks

Felipe
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1953 w26 SC (To Restore) x Sale
1954 w23 Kombi (Running)
1955 w21 Panel (Rat) SOLD

[Peter_N]

Hi Felipe,

Do you mean the number of produced Sambas? You can find them here:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/info/productionfigures.php#splitscreen

Regards,

Peter
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[Pepillo]

[djfordmanjack]

for your additional information, I just recently counted the registered BD Sambas on barndoor.dk
out of 937 registered still existing Barndoors there are 124 Sambas ( 24G), that is 13%.
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[djfordmanjack]

estimating 500 produced in first quarter of 55 it would make 5137BD Sambas in total. that'd be only 4.3% of total production of 117901 so this makes a Samba 3 times the survival rate of other BD.
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52 Barndoor DLX Coachbuild project
55 Wolfsburg panel project, og paint Taubenblau L31
62 Dickholmer, custom color Seeblau L360
63 1500 Notch, og paint Rubin Rot L456
67 1500 Käfer, og paint Lotus weiß L282 w/red interior

[djfordmanjack]

for comparison, out of approx. 18409 Single cab trucks only 100 registered vehicle exist that is an absolutesurvival rate of 0.5 % and only 11% of remaining registered Bds.

the absolute survival rate of BD Sambas is 2.4 %
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52 Barndoor DLX Coachbuild project
55 Wolfsburg panel project, og paint Taubenblau L31
62 Dickholmer, custom color Seeblau L360
63 1500 Notch, og paint Rubin Rot L456
67 1500 Käfer, og paint Lotus weiß L282 w/red interior

[Lazaa]

Sambas are more desirable so people talk more about them and maybe some people (or tony) added other owner's Deluxes in the registry for that reason... more than standard busses.
I think most of the known Deluxes are in the registry, but that is not the case for other busses.

For instance, I've never asked tony to add any of my busses in the registry and my Deluxe is in it, while none of my 2 other BD are... (and also none of the others I've owned)
IMO the registry is not accurate enough to make such statistics

That said, passenger busses was obviously less damaged during their work life so that might also explain a difference of how many survived compared to trucks

[djfordmanjack]

I am not saying that this is an accurate statistics, it was just for fun.
we have been talking about the registry before and how accurate it is / how many other BDs still exist. My guess still is at least 3 times the registry number.
Sometimes it is just fun playing with numbers and rates, that's what I did

It is a fact though that 124 Sambas compared to 100 Single cabs versus 5000/18000 buildt, the listed Sambas are 4 times higher survival rate than Single cabs (on the registry).

I think you are right that people will more likely register a Smaba than any other model.
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52 Barndoor DLX Coachbuild project
55 Wolfsburg panel project, og paint Taubenblau L31
62 Dickholmer, custom color Seeblau L360
63 1500 Notch, og paint Rubin Rot L456
67 1500 Käfer, og paint Lotus weiß L282 w/red interior