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road_warrior
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 Posted: Mon May 20, 2024 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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Curious, Has this started a build yet ?
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Before the pile of wood... but already a pile of $hit 
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Any updates on this bus yet? I’m guessing it’s in the U.K. by now |
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Saw this bus a couple of months ago at a meet. Took this picture, incredible to see it in real life and actually stand next to it considering how it started out.
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RockStock
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| Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 11:52 am Post subject: Re: Turbo 53 |
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Anyone know the VIN for the turbo 53 that debuted last summer?
Would be cool to see a before photo, and identify which one it was.
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Nice feature in the (latest) June 2024 VolksWorld. No mention of its provenance.
It’s Colombian; will just have to dig through the files for the VIN & as found pics 😉
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ddutch
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:02 pm Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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| type4split wrote: |
Curious, Has this started a build yet ?
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Before the pile of wood... but already a pile of $hit
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Any updates on this bus yet? I’m guessing it’s in the U.K. by now |
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There is a nice video of this bus on the Hayburner YT channel;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=wYnBVjBtVCw |
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Lind
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:52 pm Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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Curious, Has this started a build yet ?
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Before the pile of wood... but already a pile of $hit
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Any updates on this bus yet? I’m guessing it’s in the U.K. by now |
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type4split
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:21 pm Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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Curious, Has this started a build yet ?
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Before the pile of wood... but already a pile of $hit
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Any updates on this bus yet? I’m guessing it’s in the U.K. by now |
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RockStock
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 10:02 am Post subject: Turbo 53 |
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Anyone know the VIN for the turbo 53 that debuted last summer?
Would be cool to see a before photo, and identify which one it was.
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RockStock
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| Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 2:09 pm Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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Good spot!
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von_hansel 
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heres me .....
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It's cool to see this decklid is still around
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djfordmanjack
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busben
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:29 am Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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Nice pics thanks  |
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TransportWorld
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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Sure thing RockStock
Here is a snapshot of the display. Wish you could all see it in person. But there is more to see, we have heaps of Pre-1975 Volkswagen on display.
Take care, from some big Kombi fans in Invercargill, New Zealand
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RockStock
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 2:16 am Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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Nice update, thanks Ben.
Now in NZ, and currently in a ‘barn find’’ display at Bill Richardson Transport World.
Anyone in NZ got pictures of the display?
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busben
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Dragging an old thread up, but then RS starts some great threads
Interesting to see the Santa Deluxe finally surface ....
https://www.transportworld.co.nz/general/latest-news/show/joc-odonnells-holy-grail-vehicle/133
The story behind this particular vehicle is as impressive as its specifications: and it belies the vehicle’s rough exterior.
Discovered for sale in 2019 by Transport World team member Darren Robbie – himself a Volkswagen enthusiast – on an online message board, this vehicle has endured a multi-stage journey to reach the Bill Richardson Transport World collection since it was purchased in December last year.
It was transported across the Mexican border and shipped out of California: although border restrictions due to COVID-19 meant its journey was delayed by about five months. After three weeks at sea, it arrived at the port in Lyttleton. The Volkswagen Kombi was then transported south and arrived at Bill Richardson Transport World in bits earlier this week. It’s since been installed in the museum’s temporary Volkswagen display, which will close at the end of August.
But wait, there’s more!
This 1954 Volkswagen Kombi deluxe microbus has been the subject of plenty of intrigue in enthusiast circles for years and years.
The story really starts back in the mid-1990s, in the middle of a Swedish forest.
(Yes, really.)
A Volkswagen enthusiast by the name of Jonas Uhland reportedly found this 1954 vehicle, covered in snow, amid the trees. Although in a state of disrepair, he could see it for what it was: an incredibly rare find, the kind of vintage Volkswagen Kombi that makes aficionados dizzy.
He took some images of the Volkswagen Kombi where he found it, and they wound up on the internet. Anybody with even a fleeting interest in classic Kombis will know this type of vehicle has a huge following worldwide, and the internet is full of fan groups and message boards celebrating the glory of everything Kombi. The vehicle was sometimes referred to as ‘the Santa bus’ or ‘the Santa deluxe’, because of the wintry-looking images.
Uhland in turn sold the vehicle to well-known Volkswagen collector Charlie Hamill, before it ended up belonging to a Mexico-based collector by the name of Mario Calderon, who owned the vehicle for some 20-odd years.
Plenty of people have purported to own the vehicle known as “the Santa bus” or “the Santa deluxe”, but we’ve done some digging – and our research into the registration number marking the famed vehicle matches that of the number on the 1954 Volkswagen Kombi barndoor that we now have in our possession.
Darren, from the workshop team, is as excited as Joc to have this particular Kombi in our collection.
“If you’re into Kombis or even just Volkswagens in general, this model really is the pinnacle – it’s the ultimate,” he says.
“It’s going to need a fair bit of tidying up, but it’s very sound. The restoration work that has been done on it in the past is actually good work – they’ve done a good job, especially considering most of it has been made by hand. What’s been done, has been done well. I actually think gathering the parts will be the biggest challenge, and the most time-consuming aspect of it. It might take a couple of years to gather it all up.”
The vehicle doesn’t have an engine, so one will need to be sourced.
(Most of the 300+ vehicles here are ‘runners’ – in working order.)
Half of the upholstery has been recently crafted by an expert in Los Angeles, while a second expert is working on the remainder in San Francisco. |
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von_hansel
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| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:21 am Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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| I wouldn’t mind getting more of it and peace it back together like they do in England |
That would be really awesome.
I wish I could help you with the info, but I only know that the roof came from Old Buses before it was included in the '53 sale. I believe it originated in Sweden.
Good luck with the build and I hope I get to see it in the flesh one day when you finish putting it back together.
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Benn
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| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:32 am Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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von_hansel
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| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:31 am Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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Nope, but I know where the deep skylight roof went 
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gatorwyatt
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| Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:04 am Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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Probably didn’t even know what bus was in 1995...
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campingbox
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| Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2019 7:34 am Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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gatorwyatt
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| Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: 'Unknown' Barndoor Deluxes |
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| The white one (and probably green one) is a Swiss observation bus. It was outfitted with special alternator or generator (can’t recall) to power all the additional sirens and speakers. That pic was most likely snapped in 95’ish at Daryl Adams in Ft Lauderdale. He was assembling a large collection of rare and odd VW’s and sold it all off a few years later. A few of us were invited to come spend a day looking through the collection. |
Not really.
They are ex Swedish Air force and were used as observation / reconnaissance vehicles.
The green is mostly original and still in Sweden from what I have read.
The white one used to belong to Darryl Adams back when he had tons of VW´s. |
easy mistake to make. Here in the US Switzerland and Sweden are often confused with each other. Not the countries, but the names |
Thanks Uli...
Coming in a little hot brezelmeister. The country is what I forgot the exact detail on and you condemn my entire comment? Like I wasn’t there and didn’t hear correct😂 I have almost the exact picture from the same day, my guess is that pic belongs to Mike Brown...user SHSC. Carry on 🙄
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