white/white m code buses delivered to Canterbury Pitt

[JustBarry1972]

If you ordered a canterbury camper in 1965 what paint colours were there to choose from?
surely they werent just the same stock 65 colours - why deliver in white white and have to paint.. unless painting was less lead time than camper conversion/fitting?
I saw the brochure in the litterature archive but didnt see any mention about colours.

[JustBarry1972]

ive since read in the technical section: "Vehicles were also available in Primer, code 29, for companies or individuals that desired a unique painting scheme."

despite the above text, it still makes sense to me for small conversion companies back in the day to have bought pearl white/pearl white kombis and then converted them to campers to maintain minimal stock levels to then just spray the bottom colour over the pearl white and sell when the customer makes a firm order of the colour they require.

anyone have an opinion? old enough with a memory to remember?

[Clara]

A quick search of he gallery finds a 64 Canterbury Pitt made on a standard microbus with the normal microbus interior panels.

I don't think they would usually special order paint colors, it would probably be whatever colors were available that year.
Check the M-code plate if you are talking about a specific bus?

I think the American camper companys tended to use kombis and panels (& cut windows in the panels) while more British companies started with microbuses.

It looks like the Pitts are microbuses:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php?...t_dir=DESC
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[JustBarry1972]

coool thanks for that the missing link.:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=563064

my bus was maroon maroon same as one above^

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So Im 100% sure that canterbury campers were also offered as maroon/maroon with white roof....

now just want to confirm what other 'non stock' colours they offered...

the pinstripe along the wasteline is a pattern between the 2 original looking paint buses on that link.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=55418
ahh i didnt see page two, pinstripe added after? added by vw or CC or PO?

[Clara]

looks like that bus was originally a blue/ white microbus with mesh grey interior.

Just from those pics I would not be 100% sure that maroon was an original color back in the day when the campers were new.
Maroon was a popular color in the 70s. A lot of buses turned metallic blue during that time, too
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[JustBarry1972]

omg so two moroons decided to paint their bus the same mugly colour.

well spotted - thanks.

im thinking of painting my bus a stock colour... really trying to expand stock colour range haha

ohwell.

[House]

[JustBarry1972]

[Patty B.]

^^^ That does not look like a fun camp experience!

[morts]

[JustBarry1972]

Nice, I just got emailed out of the blue as this is a thread I'm following.
Looks like maroon was a popular colour back in some day.

Any idea when it was imported to Australia?

[morts]

I fortuitously bought it off a flipper about 7 years ago, who had only just picked it up off the old, og owner who had dementia so little is known about its history. I believe it was originally delivered to Ramsgate, England.

We have slowly been doing it up and take it away on outback trips with other like minded VW owners. So far it has been to Kangaroo Island, Yorke Peninsula, Dalhousie Springs, Birdsville, The Ottway Ranges, Maralinga and we are just about to head off to the Gammon and Flinders Ranges in a few weeks. These trips are like the Sashta snow trip only through the outback and deserts!

The bus is now running a balanced 1641 and the gearbox and rgb's have just been re-built and we went for a 4.125 final drive, which on a shakedown run today ran really well.

The bus is called Cat in the Hat due to its thin red and white striped elevating roof and I do plan to unearth the og sea blue and cumulus white paint after this trip and tackle some lower rust repairs.
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