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Fri Jul 19, 2024 9:26 pm

notchboy wrote: Long-roofs wrote: cdennisg wrote: Dang, Eric! I have never seen one of these steps in person, and you mentioned that sierra yellow 72 just this afternoon. Guess I should have walked out back.

Next time you can check it out. Has the full bed up top too, not just the cot, and gas heater.

Loaded. 😎🤙🌺

Now, if only it were a 71... 8)

Fri Jul 19, 2024 9:56 pm

cdennisg wrote: notchboy wrote: Long-roofs wrote: cdennisg wrote: Dang, Eric! I have never seen one of these steps in person, and you mentioned that sierra yellow 72 just this afternoon. Guess I should have walked out back.

Next time you can check it out. Has the full bed up top too, not just the cot, and gas heater.

Loaded. 😎🤙🌺

Now, if only it were a 71... 8)

Yeah, sept VW didn't give 71s anything other than disc brakes. 72 is the beginning of it all.

Fri Jul 19, 2024 10:26 pm

notchboy wrote: cdennisg wrote: notchboy wrote: Long-roofs wrote: cdennisg wrote: Dang, Eric! I have never seen one of these steps in person, and you mentioned that sierra yellow 72 just this afternoon. Guess I should have walked out back.

Next time you can check it out. Has the full bed up top too, not just the cot, and gas heater.

Loaded. 😎🤙🌺

Now, if only it were a 71... 8)

Yeah, sept VW didn't give 71s anything other than disc brakes. 72 is the beginning of it all.

The beginning of the end...

Sat Jul 20, 2024 12:23 pm

cdennisg wrote: notchboy wrote: cdennisg wrote: notchboy wrote: Long-roofs wrote: cdennisg wrote: Dang, Eric! I have never seen one of these steps in person, and you mentioned that sierra yellow 72 just this afternoon. Guess I should have walked out back.

Next time you can check it out. Has the full bed up top too, not just the cot, and gas heater.

Loaded. 😎🤙🌺

Now, if only it were a 71... 8)

Yeah, sept VW didn't give 71s anything other than disc brakes. 72 is the beginning of it all.

The beginning of the end...

True. Production would end in seven short years. :cry:

Sun Jul 21, 2024 10:22 am

Long-roofs wrote: cdennisg wrote: Dang, Eric! I have never seen one of these steps in person, and you mentioned that sierra yellow 72 just this afternoon. Guess I should have walked out back.

Next time you can check it out. Has the full bed up top too, not just the cot, and gas heater.

Are you referring to this set-up?

Mon Jul 22, 2024 2:34 pm

NASkeet wrote:

Are you referring to this set-up?

Yes, that is the bed set up, can not remember what they called it.

Mon Jul 22, 2024 4:09 pm

Continental Bed??

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2981599

Mon Jul 22, 2024 7:54 pm

Xevin wrote: Continental Bed??

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2981599

Yes. Un Continental bed. The patch to utilize the sunroof option bus before they fixed it in 1974.

Thu Jul 25, 2024 9:44 am

notchboy wrote: Xevin wrote: Continental Bed??

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2981599

Yes. Un Continental bed. The patch to utilize the sunroof option bus before they fixed it in 1974.

I think you will find that the 1973 model-year (i.e. 1st August 1972 to 31st July 1973) VW Type 2 Westfalia motor-caravans & campervans were based upon the Type 23-517 Kombi, with the first of the specially-designed roof apertures for elevating-roof access, rather than an adaptation of the sun-roof aperture.

My 1973 model-year, VW 1600 Type 2 Westfalia Continental, based upon the Type 23-517 Kombi (as indicated by the aluminium identification plate on the cab bulkhead), left the Volkswagen factory in circa late-August or early-September 1972 and has an instrument-cluster dated July 1972.

Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:29 pm

Hello everyone,

vintage engine (type 4) preheating with 250 Watt for cold to arctic regions by DEFA (Didrik Eidsvig FAbriken, Norway):
- from the '70s DEFA 604 (220 V oil preheater, fit instead the blind cover below the type 4 engines)
- new DEFA cable and connector set #460785 that still fit the classic preheater

https://www.vw-t2-bulli.de/de-engine-preheating.html

regards,

Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:48 pm

Cool!, or should I say "Hot"? :)

Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:23 pm

i am forever grateful i don’t need one of those.

insert smiley face here.

Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:15 pm

I would not torque the bolts... :lol:

Fri Apr 11, 2025 10:12 am

Ive seen several of those and other variations when living in Seattle. Probaly trickel downs from the Great White North. :-s \:D/

Fri Apr 11, 2025 10:56 am

There's plenty of the sump strainer plate ones, usually made in USA or Canada, that's the first taco plate version I've seen, and European power too.

Sat Apr 12, 2025 11:43 am

rsbadura wrote: Hello everyone,

vintage engine (type 4) preheating with 250 Watt for cold to arctic regions by DEFA (Didrik Eidsvig FAbriken, Norway):
- from the '70s DEFA 604 (220 V oil preheater, fit instead the blind cover below the type 4 engines)
- new DEFA cable and connector set #460785 that still fit the classic preheater

https://www.vw-t2-bulli.de/de-engine-preheating.html

regards,

I think I might have seen one of these or something very similar, on a Swedish specification, 1978 VW 2000 Type 2, single-cab pickup, originating from northern Sweden, which in the year 2000, belonged to Paul Butterworth, in Billericay, Essex, England;

This should NOT to be confused with Essex County, New Jersey, USA - possibly associated with the television series "the Sex Lives of College Girls, set at Essex College, which is supposedly in Vermont!?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sex_Lives_of_College_Girls

The fictitious American "Essex College" should similarly not be confused with the University of Essex, of which the main campus is on the outskirts of Colchester, Essex, England.

https://www.essex.ac.uk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Essex

In the mid-1970s, my father deemed the University of Essex to be too political, so my only realistic options were the various Colleges, of the University of London or the various polytechnics in London, which taught B.Sc. degrees of the University of London or the CNAA - Council for National Academic Awards.