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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:55 am    Post subject: Two 61 Kombis with VINs 7 apart Reply with quote

My buddy and I both have 61 Kombi and our VINs are 7 apart. Mine is rough but a driver and his is pretty bad. He might be selling his but is there any market for two buses that are 7 apart in VINs, even if they are rough?


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Two 61 Kombis with VINs 7 apart Reply with quote

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...two buses that are 7 apart in VINs...


Found in the same town?
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Two 61 Kombis with VINs 7 apart Reply with quote

One found in Missouri and the other found in Arkansas.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 5:59 pm    Post subject: Re: Two 61 Kombis with VINs 7 apart Reply with quote

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... is there any market for two buses that are 7 apart in VIN?
It's a novelty, but I don't see how it affects value. Bookends anyone? Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Two 61 Kombis with VINs 7 apart Reply with quote

Blue Baron wrote:
-BoB- wrote:
... is there any market for two buses that are 7 apart in VIN?
It's a novelty, but I don't see how it affects value. Bookends anyone? Very Happy


Agree
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 11:05 am    Post subject: Re: Two 61 Kombis with VINs 7 apart Reply with quote

Are there any buses known to exist with consecutive VIN numbers?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 11:22 am    Post subject: Re: Two 61 Kombis with VINs 7 apart Reply with quote

If they were that close on the production line they might have some similairities in their specs like their colour, because VW seems to be building kind of batches of similair type of busses at that time.
Those busses could be kind of similair twins within the larger production of that period. I guess their is some uniqueness in that since it will be quite hard to find 2 busses 65 years later, very similair in specs, that were quite possibly made on the same day very close after one another, only 6 busses apart. I don't think there will be any value in that aspect moneywise.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 4:52 pm    Post subject: Re: Two 61 Kombis with VINs 7 apart Reply with quote

Stocknazi wrote:
Are there any buses known to exist with consecutive VIN numbers?


Thereโ€™s at least two on the barndoor registry
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2025 2:59 am    Post subject: Re: Two 61 Kombis with VINs 7 apart Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 2:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Two 61 Kombis with VINs 7 apart Reply with quote

Not vin numbers but 1965 westfalia so-42 serial numbers 0014, 0020, 0021 and 0022 are documented in this thread, which I still find amazing.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=778607
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