Westfalia so 23 gold banding

[jjjjack]

Here are some detail shots, with dimensions, from mine (1959):

On one corner there's a chip in the outer plastic, revealing the underlying foil is silver:

Surely, somewhere, there's a nice clean pic of a new interior so we can confirm the plastic wasn't tinted from the beginning.

HTH
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1953 Porsche 356 Coupe
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[campingbox]

It looks gold in a lot of those brochure photos. I expect it was very pale yellow plastic with silver foil inside and that the plastic darkens with age. I think it would look strange to have gold trim on the doors and silver trim on the table - but maybe that's all that was available at the time?

[Wolfsburg Classics]

This answers a whole lot of questions.
This is a 6m roll of genuine '50's era plastic gold table edge trim just found in Germany by a major collector and very kindly sent to me,found at a recent swap meet.the real deal and purchased many many years ago to restore the sellers Westy caravan and this was left over excess.
Can't beleive the colour and how bright it is.Something I thought I would never find.

[easy e]

Seriously... most random NOS part
Yet somehow... I’m not surprised you have it
You can walk down the street & smell NOS parts!
Nice score Brother!
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[campingbox]

Beauty. Have any to spare?

[Zichte]

Hey guys,
im new to the samba and didnt own an old VW, but some Audis from 1965 to 1972.
In german the "banding" is called "Umleimer" it was also used on tables in the 50ties and 60ties.
I found some of this stuff in german ebay, i think that is what you´re looking for:
https://www.ebay.de/itm/50-Mtr-Kantenumleimer-Kant...rk:14:pf:0

best regards from germany

Zichte

[Wolfsburg Classics]

That is exactly the stuff but this is 23mm which is to thick,the Original so23 Westfalia banding is only 17mm.
Nice lead though...if it was only the correct width.
Damn that could have made eight bus owners very happy.

[Zichte]

[Wolfsburg Classics]

Great first post though....

[srfndoc]

Killer score Tony.... of course you would come up on this stuff.
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[jjjjack]

Very nice Tony...beautiful!
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1959 Mango Westfalia SO-23
1953 Porsche 356 Coupe
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[bastardbus]

Years back a Westfalia friend of mine came across a Nudist Publication with several photoshoots with a SO-23 as the setting. I searched for past two decades for that magazine and finally found one at a Vintage Record show of all places, for sale in a large mint collection of odd ball `60s magazines. The magazine is from 1961 and the bus in photo shoot is a late `60 early `61 SO-23. The bus looks absolutely new in the pictures and it probably is considering the date of the publication. The shoot is of different people in the Nudist colony camping in the bus. I would post pictures but I really can't as there is not one picture without a set of hooters or a ding dong in it.

Anyway...back to the point. The table trim is as GOLD as can be. It kooks identical to the trim in my original `60 SO-23 with 47K miles. The bus in the magazine is amazing, it is brand new and there is no way that plastic trim on that bus in the photo shoot yellowed in that short of time frame. Again wish I could post a pic...
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[easy e]

@bastardbus
Can you snip up some post-it notes (or just plain paper) & carefully place the tiny bits of boob-sanitizing paper over the offending areas?... take pics?
You know we all want to see.
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[sled]

its not pornography... its just naked people. I wish we lived in a world where naked people were ok to see.


scan and post all the pictures! Everett can be the judge of if its ok or not.
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[bastardbus]

Sorry NO I can't share them here. The main reason is this publication was a more of a brochure to privately advertise Nudist Colonies throughout the USA. Some of you might not realize that means there were families in these pictures and that includes some VERY young people that definitely are underage.

There is nothing horrible in the magazine just a bunch of naked people camping, golfing and swimming. But believe me if it was not for the incredible documentation of a new 1960 Westfalia, I would toss it in the trash. This was not a "legal" publication from what I see. There was no price or other information on it to show it was sold in a store of any sort. It looks to have been available "under the table" so to speak and the government has some very strict rules about this kind of stuff. That being said, I will not be copying, posting, emailing any of these pictures to anyone at anytime. If you want to see this sometime and are near Toledo Ohio shoot me a message I would be more then happy to let you check it out.

T
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