TheSamba.com :: View topic - Another Samba has been found in Norway (May 57)

Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:14 pm

:sleeping:

Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:32 pm

Any action? I love this thread. :)

Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:12 pm

I want to see the expression on the face of the guy at the transmission shop when he submits the core!!, Kinda makes me a douche for giving up on the Westy in the driveway!!

Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:26 pm

Morten Lund wrote: I cleaned the inside today, and I still get surprised how well some parts of the car is.

man, that thing is less rusty than my land-based 66 combi :shock: . I guess FL weather and hippy neglect from the previous owners are worse than being a shipwreck for 35 years :lol:

hope to see it on the road soon, hell, i'd drive over there just to see that thing move under it's own power. :D

good luck...

PS-you may want to dry it out :wink:

Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:11 pm

The winter and spring did definitely not go as planed this year (has it ever?). But the Samba is first in line, and for the moment I hope to be able to start on it in July as I have some vacation-time to kill.

And I will post pictures as soon as something happens.

Morten

Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:03 am

hurry up morten... we want to see it running to Bad Camberg next year... =D>

Mon Jun 28, 2010 7:44 am

I want pictures when 66ratrod "drives" over there.

Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:14 am

rebapuck wrote: I want pictures when 66ratrod "drives" over there.

ok, slightly map challenged, (correction) drive on boat and drive off in europe, then probably get pulled over and have my bus impounded for not passing inspection :roll:

actually my bus is not very rusty anymore (thank God for Bustoration), but it was alot worse when i got it from some smelly hippy....i mean it was horrable...like parts car horrable :shock:

PS-with schwimmwagen parts anything is possible :wink:

Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:30 pm

To the guys that think that recovery was excessively expensive;

That's a standard lorry fitted with a standard hydraulic crane, and from work experience in Finland these kind of jobs usually don't cost much, a guy with a bigger crane than that one here in Pietarsaari charges 50€ to lower sailing boats into the water in the harbour.

As for shutting down a main road, that probably didn't happen, it looks like they just put out some traffic cones around the legs of the truck so that people won't drive into them.

The most expensive thing with this recovery would be renting the divers, and who knows, maybe they are amateur divers who don't dive professionally, here in Finland you can usually get them to do non-dangerous dive jobs for a couple 24-packs of lager. :)

Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:18 am

Good to know, BTW Stuggi I love your orange thread, I especially love the 59 Ghia orange the best. 8)

Stuggi wrote: To the guys that think that recovery was excessively expensive;

That's a standard lorry fitted with a standard hydraulic crane, and from work experience in Finland these kind of jobs usually don't cost much, a guy with a bigger crane than that one here in Pietarsaari charges 50€ to lower sailing boats into the water in the harbour.

As for shutting down a main road, that probably didn't happen, it looks like they just put out some traffic cones around the legs of the truck so that people won't drive into them.

The most expensive thing with this recovery would be renting the divers, and who knows, maybe they are amateur divers who don't dive professionally, here in Finland you can usually get them to do non-dangerous dive jobs for a couple 24-packs of lager. :)

Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:40 pm

Thanks dude, I also like Orange VWs a whole lot for some reason, can't really understand why. :D That Ghia is awesome, sadly anything Ghia that old in Finland costs around 5000€ or more... :(

Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:03 am

Morten Lund Any updates on this little beauty or updated photos? Also is the oil method helping preserve it now that it's outside? I've read about WaxOyl or similar products and never tried them but sounds interesting.

Stuggi, I got hooked on orange one fall as I saw an orange car surrounded by pumpkins around Halloween and suddenly I fell in love with orange.
This orange beats all :wink:

BTW motor-head gal here :wink:

Stuggi wrote: Thanks dude, I also like Orange VWs a whole lot for some reason, can't really understand why. :D That Ghia is awesome, sadly anything Ghia that old in Finland costs around 5000€ or more... :(

Sat Aug 21, 2010 4:16 am

do you start?

Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:23 am

Stuggi wrote: Thanks dude, I also like Orange VWs a whole lot for some reason, can't really understand why. :D That Ghia is awesome, sadly anything Ghia that old in Finland costs around 5000€ or more... :(

you must have drank the case before calling Linda a dude. she is a female Linda unlike that barndoor Linda.

Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:01 am

Just AMAZING to see this bus rolling... ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnoocQyJC-0&feature=player_embedded#!

Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:05 am

67pickup wrote: Just AMAZING to see this bus rolling... ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnoocQyJC-0&feature=player_embedded#!

Cool wonder where the rest of the pictures are.

Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:04 am

yes it would be nice to see more

Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:42 pm

I will post pictures later, I haven't had time yet - all my time the last three weeks have gone to get the car started before this SCC 2010 meeting. The body is still untouched. What is done is to put in a new gearbox and motor, fix the breakes, clutch, accelerator and handbreake. Grease the original front wheel bearings and connect a fully charged battery.

Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:48 pm

Something to start with:
http://www.sccevent.com/

Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:25 am

67pickup wrote: Just AMAZING to see this bus rolling... ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnoocQyJC-0&feature=player_embedded#!

Wow! I never knew this would generate over 600 views in under 4 days.. I hope it's OK that I posted the video on YouTube Morten. Btw, I cried a little when I saw the picture of the bus right before it was dumped.. was it in your family at the time? Why was it dumped?