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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 6:59 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

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Must be an early production 75 model.



Or someone added one of the tables?

Well sure, someone could've removed the swing table and jump seat, added the more common fold out table, but assuming it is still a stock setup, my understanding is that the 75 model had the swing table and jump seat.
76 was the beginning of the layout change, cabinetry along driver side, with the pivoting passenger seat, whereas 74 had the more typical cabinets behind both front seats, with the fold out table.
Any funky mid-year model business anyone is aware of?
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:16 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

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notchboy wrote:
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Must be an early production 75 model.



Or someone added one of the tables?

Well sure, someone could've removed the swing table and jump seat, added the more common fold out table, but assuming it is still a stock setup, my understanding is that the 75 model had the swing table and jump seat.
76 was the beginning of the layout change, cabinetry along driver side, with the pivoting passenger seat, whereas 74 had the more typical cabinets behind both front seats, with the fold out table.
Any funky mid-year model business anyone is aware of?

I've seen mid year oddities on stuff VW made and had massive stockpiles of parts to use up, but I think Westfalia was more of a "make it just before it's installed" sort of operation. I suspect a cabinet got damaged and a PO found a near match at a wrecking yard.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 8:08 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

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notchboy wrote:
SamboSamba22 wrote:
Must be an early production 75 model.



Or someone added one of the tables?

Well sure, someone could've removed the swing table and jump seat, added the more common fold out table, but assuming it is still a stock setup, my understanding is that the 75 model had the swing table and jump seat.
76 was the beginning of the layout change, cabinetry along driver side, with the pivoting passenger seat, whereas 74 had the more typical cabinets behind both front seats, with the fold out table.
Any funky mid-year model business anyone is aware of?

I've seen mid year oddities on stuff VW made and had massive stockpiles of parts to use up, but I think Westfalia was more of a "make it just before it's installed" sort of operation. I suspect a cabinet got damaged and a PO found a near match at a wrecking yard.




Make it before installed? Think Laughing

Using the old before the new - sure. Ive been going through this with the T3 guys on stuff made in 1964. Now to 1975 was a long time ago with lots of possibilities - the one where someone changed something along the way seems to be the most ideal. A vehicle where one cohabitates is more likely to receive "improvements" than a sedan. Two tables? Unless ordered that way, sure. Otherwise sounds expensive to just pass down the line to me.

Anything is possible but I think Westfalia stockpiled for a nuclear winter for sure Cool Razz And we get 74 stuff when you think its 75...... and so on such is the way of VW......... Rolling Eyes


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 8:24 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

Awesome pic Jason.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 8:50 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

Believe what you like, but if you look at each singular stack in that woodshop photo it's only one component of a single cabinet for a particular model, they were spitting out a trainload or two each day of finished campers just for the North American market, stockpiling furniture (even dismantled) would have required a gargantuan warehouse you could see from space, that's a fraction of one shift's worth of wood parts there.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:59 am    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

About 400 Busses a day total, but what fraction were campers?

I still think a CFO today would freak at that much inventory on the floor, of course, inventory became the Antichrist in B school in the 1990s.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:14 am    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

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Anything is possible but I think Westfalia stockpiled for a nuclear winter for sure Cool Razz And we get 74 stuff when you think its 75...... and so on such is the way of VW......... Rolling Eyes

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That looks like about a week's worth of cabinet parts, there. Not exactly a stockpile.

Cool photo, though!
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:49 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

Oh come on, relative to Westfalia stockpile not Hanover stockpile Rolling Eyes Laughing

Jeez. But I did say nuclear winter. Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Wed May 10, 2017 2:31 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

Hey, all, quick question (not related to cabinet wood Smile

The hinge for the seat bottom of the rear bench seat...when the bed is fully folded out, I think you're supposed to be able to lift up the seat and have it click or something, and then push it back down to lift the bench seat back.

Mine seemed to work like this for a while, but not anymore.

Anyone have any pictures of these hinges, so I might compare them to mine to see if any pieces are missing?

Thanks in advance!

- Doug

PS - I have a '75 hardtop headbanger cabinet (nice shape), ice-box internal enclosure (decent, with one repair made with epoxy), and new rear bench seat foam available. I'd let them go cheap if you come and get them in northern VA.
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2017 11:09 am    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

Hi all, I was wandering if anyone could help me identify this part.
When I bought my 1975 Westfalia I found this part inside the cabinet. It fits exactly inside of the top cabinet so I think it has to be placed somewhere around there.

Any thoughts? Thank you
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 9:58 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

Looky looky.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2042574

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 11:00 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

I got a question about a '74 I recently looked at. It had a very weird westy set up... It had dual rear cabinets, a headbanger, and the sink unit was thin and had a very small cushion on it. It was also coded for ravenna green instead of yosemite yellow. You can kind of see the sink in this pic...
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Is this an optional set up or is it custom? The sink looked like it was a pro job at least.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 8:36 am    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

67ctbug wrote:
I got a question about a '74 I recently looked at. It had a very weird westy set up... It had dual rear cabinets, a headbanger, and the sink unit was thin and had a very small cushion on it. It was also coded for ravenna green instead of yosemite yellow. You can kind of see the sink in this pic...
Is this an optional set up or is it custom? The sink looked like it was a pro job at least.


Take a look through this thread.
Westfalia Interiors (lots of Pix)
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 7:32 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

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67ctbug wrote:
I got a question about a '74 I recently looked at. It had a very weird westy set up... It had dual rear cabinets, a headbanger, and the sink unit was thin and had a very small cushion on it. It was also coded for ravenna green instead of yosemite yellow. You can kind of see the sink in this pic...
Is this an optional set up or is it custom? The sink looked like it was a pro job at least.


Take a look through this thread.
Westfalia Interiors (lots of Pix)

Nothing I saw that looked like it there...
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:05 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

I think its a previous owner mod.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:24 am    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

Probably....
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 9:10 am    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

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Looky looky.

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Those are sexy.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:59 am    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

Forgot about this one. Looks like something Id do to the 77 not sure about the 74.

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And from otiswesty - different kind.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:41 am    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

Hi just seen the great pictures of pittwagens Frig Nova Kool fridge conversion. Whats the best way of removing (without much damage) my Westy Chiller box?

A few tips would be helpful.
I have a 74 Westy.Cheers
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:16 pm    Post subject: Re: 1974 and 1975 westy info thread FAQ Reply with quote

Hi all! Picking up a '75 Orange Westy in a week or two. Very excited! It's a standard, not deluxe.

Anyone remove the cabinets (sink and stove) and install a rear facing jumpseat behind the driver seat? I've owned a bunch of Eurovan weekenders and basically trying to re-create a similar layout.

On that note anyone looking for cabinets? Smile

Thanks!


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