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Sun Apr 04, 2004 12:18 am

OK all you Deluxe gerus and bus experts can you help me answer or even figure this out
I have the M-code plate off of a deluxe I will get one of these days (still back east). The bus is a 64 deluxe, black on black with a 2 tone gray (none mesh) interior looks original as all the chrome trim is there and the rubber kick panel on the bulkhead

here is the m-code plate
22 5
425 027 081 114 204 530
UV 2513 524001 1303171

This bus is all black, I even took the id tag off the overhead vent, the m-code plate and looked everywhere I could to see if repaint and could not tell any signs of repaint anywhere. Even under the panels were all black

Sun Apr 04, 2004 3:25 am

It could be original as the M code says the colour is a special option. I can't find any more details anywhere so thats all i can tell.

I put it into VintageBus.com and this is what it gave me..

M-Code Tag
(Your m-code tag should look like this)
22 5

425 027 081 114 204 530

UV 251 524001 1303171

Your M-Code tag decoded
Export Code
UV - USA, Boston

Production Date
1303171
May 64 (64 model year)
May 22

Color Codes
524001
Special Option
001

M-Codes
425 - seat belts and mounting points
027 - fog lights
081 - separate front seats for Samba bus (walk through)
114 - 6 popout side windows
204 - ?
530 - large step to cargo area bus

Model
251, Deluxe Microbus, 7-Seater, Cargo Doors Right, LHD

Paint Sticker Info

Bus Info
Chassis # 1303171
Year 64
Body #
Engine #
Model # 251
Paid
Value
Condition Unknown
Build Number

Sun Apr 04, 2004 9:05 am

what condition is the bus? any photos? the only color that I have not seen a bus painted from the factory is purple.

Sun Apr 04, 2004 11:29 am

So those ugly "OG" pink and white buses could actually be factory? LOL :lol:

Sun Apr 04, 2004 11:36 am

Lind wrote: what condition is the bus? any photos? the only color that I have not seen a bus painted from the factory is purple.

When I first saw it I wouldn't consisder it. BUT NOW, with the way prices are it is a very doable bus, plus being black on black with a 2 tone gray interior ought to be cool, or hotter then hell in az. There is also a 57 SC there complete both bumpers (I tried to buy just the bumpers and now the rear is worth more then he is asking for the whole bus)and a few more splits, deluxes and standerds, no commercials? seems weird.
There are still a couple early 50's bugs, bodys decent but the pans are shot.
I now kind of regret cutting a few roofs off and stripping a few buses while I was there, but times have changed and stuff that was once parts buses are now restorable treasures

Sun Apr 04, 2004 11:05 pm

Back east, hmmmm?

Can you give us a state?
A city?, perhaps

How long ago were these treasures last seen?

Wed Jun 25, 2025 10:01 pm

Thu Jun 26, 2025 9:57 am

Local '64 Black 13 window, original paint details:

Thu Jun 26, 2025 10:10 am

Eric and Mark posting pure VW porn this morning. Factory all black Deluxes do something for me. I like uncommon color buses.

This '65 with 524001 paint code shows up to Blackstar.

There was a Black Deluxe that Lind and Greg took pics of in a junkyard years ago with como green interior. Talk about an Andes Creme mint! Have we seen a factory Black kombi or standard?

Thu Jun 26, 2025 10:34 am

von_hansel wrote: Eric and Mark posting pure VW porn this morning. Factory all black Deluxes do something for me. I like uncommon color buses.

This '65 with 524001 paint code shows up to Blackstar.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/2404230.jpg

There was a Black Deluxe that Lind and Greg took pics of in a junkyard years ago with como green interior. Talk about an Andes Creme mint! Have we seen a factory Black kombi or standard?
The deluxe that we found in the junkyeard in Michigan was the same one that Ronnie cut the roof off of. Funny thing, we found it two months after Ronnie posted about it. We were just driving down a random road and saw a VW wrecking yard. As far as I know, it is still there. It has been more than a decade since I was last there.

As to your question, I have seen pictures of what I believe was a factory black barndoor standard with deluxe trim. I think it got scrapped in Tennessee in the '90s.

Thu Jun 26, 2025 11:26 am

There is also Eric's Black (and white) DC that came from the CHP:

Thu Jun 26, 2025 11:41 am

Was the wheeler dealers bus factory black?

Thu Jun 26, 2025 12:11 pm

Does anybody on here have a factory black 13W that came out of South Carolina around 8 years ago?

Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:23 pm

splitpile wrote: OK all you Deluxe gerus and bus experts can you help me answer or even figure this out
I have the M-code plate off of a deluxe I will get one of these days (still back east)......with a 2 tone gray (none mesh) interior looks original

Lind wrote:
The deluxe that we found in the junkyeard in Michigan was the same one that Ronnie cut the roof off of. Funny thing, we found it two months after Ronnie posted about it. We were just driving down a random road and saw a VW wrecking yard. As far as I know, it is still there. It has been more than a decade since I was last there.

For some reason I thought it had a como green interior. It sounds like its still waiting for Ronnie to pick it up one of these days.

Thu Jun 26, 2025 2:11 pm

srfndoc wrote: There is also Eric's Black (and white) DC that came from the CHP:

I posted a thread in the Barndoor section about the acquisition of a Kombi to be used by a school district to transport disabled students and California's law that is still on the books, Government Code 4301 that provides that the CHP or any governmental entity may buy materials from foreign sources if U.S models are not of the type desired. I wonder what the CHP used the double cab for that was unique?