1967-1968 bay window register?

[Michos Miche]

Hi there!

I wonder if there are any register for real early bays?
It would be pleasant to know how many there are left. I know a couple of 1967 units here in Sweden, including my november 1967 single cab.
Two of my friends owns the oldest, and the third oldest bay windows known to still exist.

It´s like the barndoor of the bays

[vwcanuck]

Not sure if there is any official "registry" Michos but have a look here ...

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=195366

And from another forum ...

http://forum.earlybay.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=54348&hilit=oldest

[AustroBus]

Hi Michos Miche,

just like you i also i also wanted to know more about early bays and a possible already existing registry for the earliest of the ones. But i couldn't find one, so i started my own private list about 2 years ago. So far it contains infos about 80 1968-model buses that were already built between July and December 1967. Additionally there is a 1967 bay registry on facebook, to which i was honoured with a co-adminship.

If you also own one, let me know and i'll add it.

Also, please have a read about that topic on my website - see link below:

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Further info - research about:
Summer 1967 - End of split bus production / start of early bay bus production: (written in August 2020)

Link to the topic introduction:
https://austrosplit.com/en/research-vintage-vw/1967-earlybay-production/

And below are all 5 subpages of course also linked and in chronologically written order:

- The oldest surviving bay #38
- Summer 1967: VW factory holiday: vacation locks, remodeling of the assembly lines & delays
- End of the splitbus era, start of earlybay production
- Production figures of the VW T2a (bay) in 1967: planned vs. actual numbers
- How many 1967-built 1968-model buses survived? Is there a registry?

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