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NASkeet
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 Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Fleetline campervan or other strange hybrid? |
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This "bay-window" VW Type 2 campervan, illustrated below, featured in the Entertainments section of the British newspaper, Daily Telegraph Review, Saturday 12th July 2008, page 14, advertising the present Wimbledon Cannizaro Park Festival, scheduled for 11th~27th July 2008.
It looks rather like a left-hand drive, 1974~79 VW Type 2 campervan, but with two hinged side load-doors, instead of the usual sliding door.
Is it one of those stange hybrid vehicles from somewhere in South America, etc., or could it be a DIY hybrid conversion!?!
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itlives
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| The way the doors are fitted, it looks like a home job to me. |
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orangeeyesore
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| The way the doors are fitted, it looks like a home job to me. |
ditto.
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busdaddy
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The dude leaning on the bus looks like he's got the spins real bad, also seems to be halucinating giant women and butterflies 
The door looks kinda like this but without Vdubtech's respect for the patina 
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Tcash
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| Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:44 pm Post subject: Fleetline/Split Bus/Split-Bay Bus |
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I can here it know. What! Split Bus, your in the wrong forum. Well open the link and read on. Just goes to show, we're all connected.
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1967250s
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| How different is the chassis of those SA bays and late splits? Did they all have t1 motors or did they have t4 motors, too? I'm thinking road trip to SA! |
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Joey
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It doesn't look like a SA Fleetline bus as it doesn't have the corner glass and lower air vent. The rear hatch and engine lid are normal for a late bay and there appears to be a track for a sliding door.
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:12 am Post subject: Re: Fleetline/Split Bus/Split-Bay Bus |
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| Tcash wrote: |
I can here it know. What! Split Bus, your in the wrong forum. Well open the link and read on. Just goes to show, we're all connected.
Peace
South African Fleetlines. NEW INFO |
The featured South African vehicle is RHD, whilst that in the music festival advertisement appears to be LHD.
Of course, it might be like these from Peru, South America.
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jtauxe 
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The "handedness" may be misleading, as when making composite images like this, people are wont to wantonly reverse photographs.
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Joey
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Since the fuel filler is on the side showing its safe to say the photo wasn't reversed.
Also, the doors both have handles - that ain't right either....
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NASkeet
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| Joey wrote: |
Since the fuel filler is on the side showing its safe to say the photo wasn't reversed.
Also, the doors both have handles - that ain't right either.... |
Also, rearward of the two hinged side doors, there is a single large window, rather than two small windows.
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tristessa
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Anyone think it might just be photochopped? I mean, I see hinges on the leading edge at the B pillar, I see a line between the two handles, but above the handles .. that looks like the division in a factory sliding window.
The pic posted is so grainy it's hard to make out much detail anyway... |
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NASkeet
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Anyone think it might just be photochopped? I mean, I see hinges on the leading edge at the B pillar, I see a line between the two handles, but above the handles .. that looks like the division in a factory sliding window.
The pic posted is so grainy it's hard to make out much detail anyway... |
The picture was scanned from a newspaper, so there wasn't much I could do about the grainyness!
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Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
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tristessa
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| The picture was scanned from a newspaper, so there wasn't much I could do about the grainyness! |
It's cool. I could see it was a scan from newsprint, and there's plenty of photoshopping going on behind the scenes in the newspaper industry. I should know, I did a fair amount of it 20 years ago. |
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NASkeet
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Picture of two South American built, "bay-window" VW Type 2s, scanned from Part 3 of the following serialised article:
Ben Bree, “Hasta Alaska – Couch Surfing”, Travel, Volkswagen Camper & Commercial, August 2013, Pages 32~35.
Ben Bree, “Hasta AlaskaPart 2 - Kombi Life!”, Travel, Volkswagen Camper & Commercial, October 2013, Pages 56~59.
Ben Bree, “Hasta Alaska Part 3 – On Top of the Andes”, Travel, Volkswagen Camper & Commercial, November 2013, Pages 32~35.
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fig
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The bus in the festival poster is almost certainly a regular German baywindow with some kind of hack on the cargo doors.
The righthand of the two Brazilian baysplits above is a panel with sliding windows cut in, while the left is how the Kombi's windows were configured.
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Agreed, also notice the high (pre 61) style door hinges on Ben's bus opposed to the below the beltline ones on the "festival bus", VW didn't even put them that low on later splits.
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crushie
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On a VW brochure,
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NASkeet
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| fig wrote: |
The bus in the festival poster is almost certainly a regular German baywindow with some kind of hack on the cargo doors.
The righthand of the two Brazilian baysplits above is a panel with sliding windows cut in, while the left is how the Kombi's windows were configured. |
I suspected something like that.
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Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
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NASkeet
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On a VW brochure,
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So is this a high-roof model microbus or some form of campervan; the roof with integral roof rack, being very similar to that of some Bariban conversions.
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Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine
Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)
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