TheSamba.com :: View topic - Is this a real Barndoor? Parein biscuit tin

Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:32 pm

volksfahrer.nl wrote: Cool! Now slam it on earlies by topping it of with cookies :wink:

no cookies, no Porsche 'cookies', or Fuchs, but standard 550 Spyder wheels, would that be OK too? :D

G.

Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:06 am

EverettB wrote:
The rare times I have seen them for sale I don't recall them being priced that high but they were expensive. I think I remember seeing one sell on eBay for $400-$500 US.

wow, I just found one (missing cover) in a lot of used VW parts I just acquired.

Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:24 am

Mystery solved.

They DID have barndoors!

I received these pictures in my mailbox today, they were emailed to me by someone of the Parein family.
Unfortunately he doens't know where the barndoors are now.

Piet

Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:13 am

Wow, cool! Looks like they had at least 28 of them too?

Wed Jan 29, 2014 9:13 am

cool, the buses are logo'd bilingual, too. belgium rolls that way

Wed Jan 29, 2014 9:55 am

What a big "gift".....very surprised about that real thing....and suprised that they use 51/52and also 53/54 if you look on the 3d bus on the last pics.

what strange is that on that same last picture the number plate of 51/52 was a number plate used after 1954...but crazy...long time that i was so positive surprised with such information...BIG DEAL for Belgium!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks on the discover

Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:44 am

the boss wrote: What a big "gift".....very surprised about that real thing....and suprised that they use 51/52and also 53/54 if you look on the 3d bus on the last pics.

what strange is that on that same last picture the number plate of 51/52 was a number plate used after 1954...but crazy...long time that i was so positive surprised with such information...BIG DEAL for Belgium!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks on the discover

x2 !!!

...finally Boss, first proof they DID drive on our roads, and not only used as a cookie-box and toy !! GREAT !!

PLUS the plates, just as you said, number 28 has younger plates on the 'group' picture... so that must be after they had to remove the enamel (emaille) plates from the oldest pictures... you also see the last bus in te row is a non-barndoor... GREAT pictures!!

G.

Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:20 pm

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing them.

Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:27 pm

Number 28 in the group pic also has different colored wheels and different colored bumper than number 28 in the first two pics. Either updates done to the bus before it got a newer plate or different bus. The front of the sign on top of the bus appears to look different too. Very interesting pics!!! Looks like the other vehicles in the group pic could also be company vehicles. Maybe not 28 barndoors, but rather 28 (or more) vehicles in their "fleet".

Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:34 pm

The definitely didn't have 28 VW buses.
Dimitri Parein has recently written a book about the history of the company and he has created a website (http://www.parein.eu/) with lots of info and photo's. There you can see older cars with lower numbers.

Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:10 pm

Parein in Antwerp garage

Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:53 pm

pix912 wrote: The definitely didn't have 28 VW buses.
Dimitri Parein has recently written a book about the history of the company and he has created a website (http://www.parein.eu/) with lots of info and photo's. There you can see older cars with lower numbers.

good thing they did it in both languages, my french is very rusty

Thu Jan 30, 2014 1:53 am

#28 is gorgeous ! love the detail shots with the dark two tone bumper !
no rear bumper, must be pre 54. group shot also shows a 1955 (US) Ford Fairlane Victoria and most probably an International Pickup truck. way cool line up for a European Co. of the time !
Love the garage shot with the 53 Chev in front. these old pics are killing me ! 8)
thx for posting

Thu Jan 30, 2014 1:58 am

if you look at the licence# on the box it says 817...
compared to the 905... of #28 it is quite in the same 6 digit range. So they might even have taken the box plate# from a real bus :?:
also the box shows a '50 so that would fit the lower plate#

Thu Jan 30, 2014 4:50 am

The bus number 25 :wink:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1208808

Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:19 pm

I remember reading this thread years ago and thinking that with all the details on the biscuit tins that the artist must have worked from a real logoed bus.

Now to see the real thing, that's so cool.

Next update, logoed bus found! I can hope, anyway.

Fri Jan 31, 2014 1:41 am

A dream to find it ....but Belgium is not USA....we are small and need place for all the population....de seventies makes a big cleaning in a lot of cars..junkiard of outside selling was usual...what we keep (speaking about busses because it is in need of place) are for us Belgium boys extras value .
Hope one day ...here...

Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:42 am

Top pics.
How many original Belgium-delivered BDs are known to still exist?

Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:38 am

from: http://megadeluxe.com/los-deluxe/the-daily-deluxe-12-april-2013

Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:57 am

No information about numbers of barndoor (when i asked dieteren info 7 years ago.
All what we have are pics and"...........old stories from very old mens!!!!!!!!!!!!