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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:48 am    Post subject: Bubble top Bus with town diorama in the back Reply with quote

I posted this vintage photo a while back:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=916841
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Now I see this!
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Anyone know more?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That thing is awesome! I wonder how many were made...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is the blog about it. Using Gersons bumpers, etc.

According to the article, these converted buses were used in the 50's and 60's to drive around Germany to promote financing for home ownership.

http://www.schwaebisch-hall.de/fuchsblog/?p=5040

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anchovy wrote:
Here is the blog about it. Using Gersons bumpers, etc.

According to the article, these converted buses were used in the 50's and 60's to drive around Germany to promote financing for home ownership.

http://www.schwaebisch-hall.de/fuchsblog/?p=5040

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Did you notice the pic everett posted has the same number plate as the pic you posted? So I assume its the exact same bus? Wow ! And semaphores to boot. Looks like they just cut down a bus to make this rather than use a single cab. Interesting taillights and louvers.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's my understanding that they used the old photo to recreate the bus. There are lots of small differences if you look closely. The diorama is not the same in each bus although similar. I think they just made the plate to match the old one.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ovalteen wrote:
Anchovy wrote:
Here is the blog about it. Using Gersons bumpers, etc.

According to the article, these converted buses were used in the 50's and 60's to drive around Germany to promote financing for home ownership.

http://www.schwaebisch-hall.de/fuchsblog/?p=5040

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Did you notice the pic everett posted has the same number plate as the pic you posted? So I assume its the exact same bus? Wow ! And semaphores to boot. Looks like they just cut down a bus to make this rather than use a single cab. Interesting taillights and louvers.
The TLs look like early ghia to me... and, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think semaphores were normally much higher (above beltline) than on this bus.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is another photo from the blog:

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dave24 wrote:
The TLs look like early ghia to me....


I don't think they are Ghia TL's on the original bus. I think the reporduction bus has slightly different lights from the original. The original bus looks like generic Hella with three bulges on the lens, like on the top driver training model in this photo:

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

very cool bus but that "rear view" window looks about the size of a tissue box. backing that up would not be fun ditto too for keeping an eye of tailgaters or rubber-necker's chekcing out the diorama
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

more pictures on facebook (bugwelder)

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150253202499935.366597.309681634934&type=1

the article says this was a 5 week project to build the copy of the old cars,

does look like a SC though in the other pics.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

These are great shots here


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

on the second bus the louvers also wrap further around
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, that's pretty damn cool.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very cool.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dave24 wrote:
The TLs look like early ghia to me... and, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think semaphores were normally much higher (above beltline) than on this bus.


I think single cabs had semaphores below the beltline, which would indicate this originally was an SC.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wanna live in that tiny neighborhood
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

peecee69 wrote:
Dave24 wrote:
The TLs look like early ghia to me... and, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think semaphores were normally much higher (above beltline) than on this bus.


I think single cabs had semaphores below the beltline, which would indicate this originally was an SC.


Yes, singles had them below the beltline. But then why doesnt it have single cab louvers?, or the correct taillights regardless of if it was a bus or a single cab. Any pics of a treasure chest? Those rear corners look too rounded for a pickup. Is it just me or is that engine lid really large?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mannys66 wrote:
I wanna live in that tiny neighborhood


Totally, plus, there should be a scale single cab with a scale neighborhood with another mini scale bus with another mini-mini scale to infinity.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:10 pm    Post subject: Re: Bubble top Bus with town diorama in the back Reply with quote

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Those corners are way too round for a single.
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That had to have been a bus before it was modified:
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