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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:44 am    Post subject: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

Figured it's time to start a new thread about my latest project: a 1967 kombi that I'll be installing an original westy interior into.

Found this bus in Ball Ground Georgia. Made and offer and picked it up within days of its posting here on the Samba.

Couldn't be more excited. Bought it from an old hippy who was daily driving her before his health got bad.

Had a quick paint job back in the 90s. Rust on rockers is starting to bubble up again.

Had a friend here in louisville with an original 1967 Westy interior I was able to pick up and I'll be recovering everything with new Sewfine upholstery.

Here are some pics of day 1:


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:04 am    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

Congratulations, nice bus
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:09 am    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

Sweet
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:50 am    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

Wonderful.
Looking forward to seeing your Westfalia interior after you get it in.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:00 pm    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

It looks like a really good bus, congratulations.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:20 pm    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

The ASS sticker on the left rear bumper is from about 1996.
I made those for the Appalachian Split Screen (ASS) club and passed them out at the Buses on the Blue Ridge camp out that I used to put on.
Funny to see it, thanks for bringing back the memories.
Congrats on the new to you bus.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:07 pm    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

Ha! @npbusguy - do you remember how many stickers you made?

Love having the interesting bits of info on it.

1996 would have been the year the owner I bought it from bought it and painted it. He owned for 20 years and he believes he was second owner, making me the third.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:12 pm    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

Here's the interior I bought. Time to piece together a few bits, and get some new T channel....


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:18 pm    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

madmanvan wrote:
Had a friend here in louisville with an original 1967 Westy interior I was able to pick up and I'll be recovering everything with new Sewfine upholstery.

Judging by the location of the outlet/circuit breaker and the cabinet handles you truly have a '67 interior.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:04 pm    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

... made my 1960 bus into a pop-top Westy... the doner bus was a 1966 Westy



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bought this SO 33 shell and put an SO 42 interior in it.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 6:20 am    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

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... made my 1960 bus into a pop-top Westy... the doner bus was a 1966 Westy



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Did you cut the passenger side rear cab to have that window light?

Mine covers a window (where my closet is). I don't think I can bring myself to cut an original cabinet, but I love that little side table, and all the light.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 7:42 am    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

Merry Christmas from Sewfine:


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 7:54 am    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

The sewfine material looks good. Don't throw away the yellow covers, someone will want them. I'm sure you know this but you don't want to throw away anything from your old interior either. Panels, seats, etc, they are all valuable.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:07 am    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

Pinetops wrote:
The sewfine material looks good. Don't throw away the yellow covers, someone will want them. I'm sure you know this but you don't want to throw away anything from your old interior either. Panels, seats, etc, they are all valuable.


while grungy now, the originals do clean up well, and you can not beat them for durability. I would try to keep them.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 3:20 pm    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

madmanvan wrote:
ZENVWDRIVER wrote:
... made my 1960 bus into a pop-top Westy... the doner bus was a 1966 Westy



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Did you cut the passenger side rear cab to have that window light?

Mine covers a window (where my closet is). I don't think I can bring myself to cut an original cabinet, but I love that little side table, and all the light.


... yes, cut the closet down to make use of the light from a now functional opening window and to get rid of that annoying blind spot. Then made the "table top" by using a Westy table cut to size and flipped over, to have the white plastic edge for continuity... have thought for years to cut the closet down and finally did it... Figured an SO42 interior is wrong for an SO33 any way...so glad I did.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 3:37 pm    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

ZENVWDRIVER wrote:
... yes, cut the closet down to make use of the light from a now functional opening window and to get rid of that annoying blind spot.
That's not a blind spot .......try owning a panel van Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:14 pm    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

madmanvan wrote:
Here's the interior I bought. Time to piece together a few bits, and get some new T channel....


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If you boil the T channel it will be like new. it will stretch back out. I have done it with great results
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 7:47 pm    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

panel wrote:
ZENVWDRIVER wrote:
... yes, cut the closet down to make use of the light from a now functional opening window and to get rid of that annoying blind spot.
That's not a blind spot .......try owning a panel van Laughing


... had a 1956 DD panel and I agree, that's all blind spot, by comparison... added a camper door, with window... helped a little.

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1/54, black 11C Beetle - TRADED
2/55 Iceland green Beetle, on a 1965 pan
3/55 113 Beetle, stratos silver
1955 Messerschmitt KR175 - SOLD, sadly
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 7:00 am    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

Cold night here in Louisville KY. Decided to spend the time in the heated part of. My shop cleaning the old interior.

Found *almost* enough pieces to rebuild an original spice rack. Now what to do about the two missing pieces of laminate?

Also, found a 1975 San Francisco map in one of the drawers. My wife and I used to live there, and I'm considering 'wallpapering' it under the head knocker... the underside of the cabinet is pretty stained and gouged anyway....

The spice rack:

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 8:19 am    Post subject: Re: My '67 - first split - converting to camper. Reply with quote

Nevamar Grand Isle Maple is known to be a very close match to the original laminate:

http://www.cabinetparts.com/g/grand-isle-maple-laminate-pattern-nevamar

There are also companies that reproduce very good matches. nlavw.com is one of them.
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