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Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:54 am

I love all the threads of the prototype VW's, VW30, VW38 and barndoors but it got me thinking... I don't recall seeing any photos of early Baywindow prototypes?

If you have any odd ball prototype VW Bay window shots post them up!
The way I see it the split bus was just a prototype until VW made it perfect in 1968 :D

Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:53 am

not a VW - but it looks like - a "Palten Diesel"
1958 - no split window, but not realy a T2 baywindow

Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:59 am

great to see this!

Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:08 am

Some prototypes I found in the gallery.

EDIT: FOUND IT!!! 1967!!

1978 Westaflia SYNCRO!!! Imagine if they mass produced this? =P~ =P~ =P~

Side loader. This would of been cool:

The Electric Bus prototype. 1972?

Come to think of it... I don't think I've ever seen the bay window prototype :-k

Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:09 am

That looks scary like the scene in the film Jacob's Ladder when the car drives by with all those faces in it.

Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:22 am

Prototype with gas turbine engine rom the VW museum in Wolfburg/Germany:

(don't ask me about the sign 1972 in front and 1970 at the rear...???)

Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:23 am

what an ugly thing :shock: :shock:

:lol:

Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:24 am

A cabriolette prototype :lol: from the VW museum in Wolfburg/Germany:

Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:54 am

That 1967 Kombi prototype should have painted hubcaps but their chrome:

Sweet ride though. That syncro Westy would have been cool as well.

Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:56 am

thewalrus wrote: Some prototypes I found in the gallery.

EDIT: FOUND IT!!! 1967!!

1978 Westaflia SYNCRO!!! Imagine if they mass produced this? =P~ =P~ =P~

Side loader. This would of been cool:

The Electric Bus prototype. 1972?

Come to think of it... I don't think I've ever seen the bay window prototype :-k

Yes that 67 is a early production for the 68 year but not really a prototype as they would have been a few years earlier..... lets keep this thread going. Any others?!?

Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:46 pm

Almost all of these may be found in the book VW Transporter & Microbus: Specification Guide 1967-1979. Plus there is stuff written about them and more photos:

http://www.amazon.com/VW-Transporter-Microbus-Specification-1967-1979/dp/1861267657/ref=pd_sim_b_16

Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:03 pm

What's the M-code for that extended bumper/spare tire mount? I've only seen one other than this one. Odd looking :P

Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:12 pm

1977_L63H_P27 wrote: What's the M-code for that extended bumper/spare tire mount? I've only seen one other than this one. Odd looking :P
It's a European only thing. I believe it's a Westfalia accessory.

Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:56 pm

I used to have a club newsletter with a photo of the engine bay in the electric prototype. It was destroyed with most of my '80s vw mags when I foolishly kept them in my broken bay. Water damage :(

I also lost the newsletter with the fwd morris prototype built from kdf / kubel etc. parts. Swastickas everywhere. Kind of amused me to see on a british car.

Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:16 pm

I seriously WANT that sycro bay. That thing is overflowing with WIN!

Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:26 pm

are those rear side windows the elusive 2 ply plexi ones???
also that DOKA synchro is so sweet!

Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:22 pm

78Kombi wrote: that DOKA synchro is so sweet!

Agreed, Indeed.

Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:17 pm

78Kombi wrote: are those rear side windows the elusive 2 ply plexi ones???

Looks like.

Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:32 pm

GeoffP wrote: I love all the threads of the prototype VW's, VW30, VW38 and barndoors but it got me thinking... I don't recall seeing any photos of early Baywindow prototypes?

If you have any odd ball prototype VW Bay window shots post them up!
The way I see it the split bus was just a prototype until VW made it perfect in 1968 :D

I believe you answered your own question. But I guess we're a bit biased. 8)

Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:44 am

BusterBrown wrote: GeoffP wrote: I love all the threads of the prototype VW's, VW30, VW38 and barndoors but it got me thinking... I don't recall seeing any photos of early Baywindow prototypes?

If you have any odd ball prototype VW Bay window shots post them up!
The way I see it the split bus was just a prototype until VW made it perfect in 1968 :D

I believe you answered your own question. But I guess we're a bit biased. 8)
hmm in the rear window too..so was this provided by Westfalia or VW?