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Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:02 am

Scotty is right.

Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:53 am

Its hard to see properly,but it looks like the window on the far side is the same length as the one this side, so they must have moved the double doors or customed a door up, either way seems like a lot of work for not much extra glass. Nice though

Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:23 am

it really doesnt matter what it came from the factory as,its a coachbuilt,probably 1 of a kind,its kinda funny some think its a "hacked up pos" the pictures era so it definately was done shortly after production,i would personally rather have something like this than the old run of the mill dlxe or standard

Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:10 pm

I'm glad it's not mine, I'd want to make it back into a panel/standard.

Reminds me of this creature.....

I'm glad this one isn't mine....cause I'd be in the market for a roof clip to fix it.

Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:31 pm

campingbox wrote: I'm glad it's not mine, I'd want to make it back into a panel/standard.

Reminds me of this creature.....

I'm glad this one isn't mine....cause I'd be in the market for a roof clip to fix it.

I've always felt that that Bus was destined to be owned by 10 Foot Doug the Head. Talk about a signature car, that would be it.

Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:25 pm

hugheseum wrote: it really doesnt matter what it came from the factory as,its a coachbuilt,probably 1 of a kind,its kinda funny some think its a "hacked up pos" the pictures era so it definately was done shortly after production,i would personally rather have something like this than the old run of the mill dlxe or standard

I'm guessing you missed the :wink: after my comment. I would also take this bus over a factory deluxe, especially with the existance of the period photo.

The side windows shape reminds me of the East German bus windows.

Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:40 pm

Like this panel turned "deluxe".

http://www.oldcars.co.jp/vw/55bus.html

Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:58 pm

SHSC wrote: Like this panel turned "deluxe".

http://www.oldcars.co.jp/vw/55bus.html

i think thats a "deruxe"!

Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:36 pm

hahhah...probabry you right :x

Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:29 am

I have period photos somewhere... I am searching... of a barn door hotel bus that has 6 odd skylight windows (two over the windshield) and weird length 3rd windows... and really weird corner windows. It has a big ski rack on the back rather than the roof. It also features a lot of curving trim over the wheel wells... and several vertical trim strips on the nose where the logo would have been.

(There used to be a great used photo store in Berlin... it was under the railroad tracks near the central station... and I found these there in a box of misc snapshots from the 40's and 50's of people with their cars. I also have shots of a family vacation in a white roof,chestnut brown... Sealing wax bus... and will post them when I find them.)

Coachbuilding in Germany was cheap in the early fifties as a lot of Germans with experience in this were still out of work following the war. Nobody had any money and so a lot of odd cars happened with cheap labor. This is the story of most of the coachbuilders. I am guessing there were probably one or two shops that converted and made their own taxi busses or hotel busses paying an obscenely low minimum wage type labor rate for highly talented guys.

Eric

Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:59 am

Not this one?
It had a huge enclosed rack on it when found.
And ultra cool fender trim.
No missized windows, though.

Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:08 am

Heres the first shot

Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:39 am

here's a front shot... it is larger in the BD gallery if you want to see it full size

Eric

Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:41 am

doveblue3 wrote: SHSC wrote: Like this panel turned "deluxe".

http://www.oldcars.co.jp/vw/55bus.html

i think thats a "deruxe"!

I thinks it's acturry a Light Hand Dlive '55 Deruxe.

Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:42 pm

Looks like a touring bus, made from a barndoor deluxe, either hardtop or 23 window, with the roof hacked in to make bigger windows, and someone went totally nuts with the aluminum trim.
overrestored wrote: Heres the first shot

Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:11 am

Is this one new to you guys?? I saw it on a wall in Austria last week.

http://www.ssvc.ukshells.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=28841

Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:00 pm

Scotty wrote: eh0s wrote: Riff Raff wrote: I'm no barndoor connoiseur, but did not barndoor breeze windows hinge at the front of the window?
That breeze window looks like it pivots in the middle like later splits.

Paino hinges were for early BD's (to -51).

Up to 52. Later style started in 53
you know it ....gota love 52 and down..

Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:17 am