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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:40 am    Post subject: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

Rescued the saveable parts from this Single cab, according to the body number it’s made in March -56 and I has the new type of engine cradle so it must be an early Hannover build. Sadly it was crushed 15 years ago by a Forrest Skidder
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:51 am    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

Sure, that will buff out...
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:53 am    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

you should put it in this thread-

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=164642&start=19020


what did you find that was still useful?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 10:33 am    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

I am under the impression that there was concurrent production of buses at Wolfsburg and at Hanover for about a month or so.

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A couple different sources have slightly different VINs for the 1st Hanover bus.

Maybe post something in the Wolfsburg bus thread, with the VIN, as a March 1956 is a very early Hanover bus.
Can you find the VIN? or just the body number?

check this out:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=225586
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

velvetgreen wrote:
what did you find that was still useful?


One rim, steeringbox, front end, left rear panel and corner, right side panel(dented but rust free), tailgate (rusted bad), engine lid, taillight parts, right door with door handles, front sheet metal (will be a wall decoration I think), cargo lid. Front bumper and perhaps the part I value most is the rear bumper

All these parts will be used on my 56 SC (made in dec -55 in Wolfsburg)
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

Clara wrote:
Maybe post something in the Wolfsburg bus thread, with the VIN, as a March 1956 is a very early Hanover bus.
Can you find the VIN? or just the body number?


The vin tag is really corroded but I will try to read it.

I will compare some of the part to my dec -55 SC and post in the Wolfsburg bus thread
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

What a shame - what's the story? How did you learn about this thing in the woods and sadly losing its life that way?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

Cool glad to hear that you got so much off of it. You could try soaking the tag in CLR etc to see if it would make it legible
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

He's in Sweden, might need an explanation as to what CLR is?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 6:18 am    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

CLR- Calcium Lime and Rust https://clrbrands.com/
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:42 am    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

I'm lichen the moss Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

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The rim dated February 56
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:10 pm    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

When you say body number, how are you dating body # to march of 56? The body # on these busses are around 10,000 to 15,000 off from the actual vin number. Could be built later than you think
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

This was my estimation according to the bodynumber 169xxx , but the number was hart to read, so I will examine more, i'm not 100% sure that the second number is a 6, but I will soak it in CLR and se if I can see it all.
I'm not convinced that it´s an early Hannover build but my investigation will go on Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:49 am    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

Kopperhead wrote:
This was my estimation according to the bodynumber 169xxx , but the number was hart to read, so I will examine more, i'm not 100% sure that the second number is a 6, but I will soak it in CLR and se if I can see it all.
I'm not convinced that it´s an early Hannover build but my investigation will go on Very Happy


In case it helps you narrow down the date, my 8th October 1956 single cab has a body number in the 192,7## range.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:36 pm    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

My 56 PGSG was built the last day of Wolfsburg production on Mar 7 1956 and has a 171xxx VIN. IIRC is has the original 2/56 dated rims.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 9:34 am    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

Found a number on the front bumper stop 184388, is that April 56’ ?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Found a Hannover made March 1956 Reply with quote

Kopperhead wrote:
Found a number on the front bumper stop 184388, is that April 56’ ?
Around the third week of May '56.
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