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Chad M
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 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:27 am Post subject: Re: Samba sliding door survey. |
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| I am trying to establish how many sambas with sliding side door/s survive today. |
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BulliBill
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Wow, the one below brings back some memories:
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Ben Lawrence of the SSVC owned that Double Slider Deluxe back in 1999 when a group of us on the "Return To The Fatherland Tour" drove on a Vintage VW 12 day backroads tour of the USA/Canada from LA to NYC, then shipped our pre-'58 VWs to England, then picked them up again to drive on to Wolfsburg and the 1999 Bad Camberg event for another 14 days.
The SSVC in England wanted to assist us in any way during our "RTTFT'99" Tour segment in England, so some of their members were waiting in 4 or 5 Split-Buses at both Gatwick and Heathrow airports to scoop up all of us groggy Tour participants and our luggage arriving there after overnight trans-Atlantic flights. At Gatwick Airport, I and two other Tour drivers were met outside of her Majesties Customs by the SSVC members and put into Ben's Double-Slider for the drive around the outer-belt motorways around London and then eastward to the container ship port at Harwich where our old VWs had arrived on a container ship from NYC.
Ben and the other guys had taken the day off from work and brought out their old Buses to grab us all and escort us to our Bed & Breakfast/pub lodgings at the port, and bought us all our first pints in England and made sure we were properly welcomed and all settled in. The next morning we opened the containers, hopped in our own VWs and headed off to have dinner and drinks with Major Ivan Hirst and hear him talk all about of his days at Wolfsburg at the end of and post WWII. Freakin' incredible trip!
It was a gas to get a nice long ride in that very unique orange Transporter! Thanks Ben! Ironically, now that beauty belongs to a T2 collector in Iowa, about 4 hours drive north of me...
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Brw1marine
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Location: South Wales UK
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That's a wonderful story. The kind that reinforces the cameradery of this interest. I bet Every one of our busses has a story worth telling of the owners they've had and the places they've been.
Thank you for that. |
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j.pickens
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The two double door deluxes above are two of the sliders I've sat in. There is another single sliding door deluxe in San Jose California which I've also been in. Here it is at the OCTO meet ten years ago.
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DubStyle
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Don't have any pictures, but a guy named Ben had one over in the UK 2000-2003. It was orange and slammed, very damn cool double slider if I remember right.
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jammytask
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| I had a '66 Samba with sliding door before my '57, it was very original, still 6v etc. I bought it from BBT in Belgium in around 2000 and sold it 2010/11. The registration was EST63D, titian red and Ivory beige as post #1 |
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Brw1marine
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| So I make that about a dozen so far. Surely, there's more than that. If not, it would make them rarer than T1 sambas. |
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Chad M
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*Darren
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Just do a quick search of the gallery & you can turn up several not mentioned so far including this '64 double door panel
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Brw1marine
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Just do a quick search of the gallery & you can turn up several not mentioned so far including this '64 double door panel
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Darren, please read the thread title. It's surviving sliding door Sambas we are trying to locate.
There are many slider panels.
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Brw1marine
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This shows how rare samba sliders are. To be auctioned soon Estimate $200,000 aus . This one's right hand drive but the left hookers are more sought after.
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KombiMadness
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This shows how rare samba sliders are. To be auctioned soon Estimate $200,000 aus . This one's right hand drive but the left hookers are more sought after.
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Not in Australia. Original RHD VW Australasia buses are worth more and more sought after. The above 21 window is actually from the UK and the Aussie owners (pictured) bought it over there, travelled around Europe in it and then shipped it home to Oz. If it was LHD, it would fetch less here.....
Don't ask me why Aussie split lovers are LHD shy, I own 2 and love them! I know in the UK there are probably just as many left hooker splitties as RHD on the road and the prices are the same and there is no stigma. Here in Australia it's much harder to sell a LHD splitty?!
Perhaps because we had our very own VW factory producing Australian models, the local VW community is proud of that? As has been discussed on many threads, there are quite a few Aussie only differences like twin tail light '61 model, high vents to minimize dust clogging up the air filters, double oil bath air filter option for very dusty conditions, twin row of high vents on '67 model, etc......
Personally, I love all splitties, all variants, left or right hook and from any country (yes, even Brasilian and South African Fleet line....)
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21-window
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I had a 65 samba single slider years back... swr/bg.
I think its in Paris now. Was og paint when I sold it. |
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Brw1marine
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In the UK, if you have something special like this one, the LHD ones fetch more. I have seen evidence of this lately as the real collectors are in Germany and the US. A cash collector will think nothing of shipping rare examples around the world. Rare configurations get the blood pumping and samba sliders are definitely in this category. Only manufactured to customer spec in 66-67 only, they are rarer than the early black top sambas.
I live in Wales and I only know of one in this country. |
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Brw1marine
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| Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2015 5:02 pm Post subject: Samba slider |
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Managed to locate another samba slider in Germany.
Hadn't realised how rare they are.
13 in all so far. 7 LHD and 6 RHD
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kair350
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:12 pm Post subject: Re: Samba sliding door survey. |
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1964 Double Slider Panel |
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peecee69
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:59 pm Post subject: Re: Samba sliding door survey. |
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Is that yours? Also, you might want to blur out the plate in the first picture, since you took the time to blur it out on the rear shot. |
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cru62
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: Samba sliding door survey. |
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And the OP is looking for Sambas (21 window Deluxe) w/sliders, not panels, kombis, standards, etc.
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kair350
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: Samba sliding door survey. |
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| long story on the plate blackout. No panels. Senior Moment. |
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Sambasaurus
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:57 pm Post subject: Re: Samba sliding door survey. |
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19 May 1965 21 Window Sliding Door
Based in Buckinghamshire in the UK
The Bus is still in Original Paint and largely unrestored.
The bus is originally from Germany, Dusseldorf area, and has the original dealer sticker on the tailgate.
With regards to other Sliding door Busses, at one time there was 3 sliding door buses in my local area, one panel van, and two sambas (mine and a 1966 one)
Earlier this year, while on holiday in Austria, I saw this Sliding Door
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