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PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 3:28 pm    Post subject: Re: 1953 Barndoor, Sebastian - Alberta, Canada barn find Reply with quote

most of all they are SO C O O L ! Cool

If you need a BD rear window glass, remember that all Pickups also had the same backlite up to about '63 or so. Might be much easier to find used single cab glass.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 10:17 pm    Post subject: Re: 1953 Barndoor, Sebastian - Alberta, Canada barn find Reply with quote

Great find! Amazing that the rear lights are still there. 9 times out of 10 they were “upgraded” to something larger.
As far a the comment about most cars in Canada being foreign, that isn’t true. The big three are considered domestic (they have plants here), and still ruled the roads here up until the 80’s. Anything imported from Europe was still uncommon here in the fifties.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 3:25 am    Post subject: Re: 1953 Barndoor, Sebastian - Alberta, Canada barn find Reply with quote

crukab wrote:
jaymonkey wrote:
[img]How common or uncommon is the opening rear hatch?

From my limited BD knollege, I'd say they are Rare.

Gut feeling...roughly 1000 BDs on BD.DK...maybe 30ish with rear hatch? 3%?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:13 am    Post subject: Re: 1953 Barndoor, Sebastian - Alberta, Canada barn find Reply with quote

What's that say on the front bumper ?
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 11:06 pm    Post subject: Re: 1953 Barndoor, Sebastian - Alberta, Canada barn find Reply with quote

Trevor P wrote:

As far a the comment about most cars in Canada being foreign, that isn’t true. The big three are considered domestic (they have plants here), and still ruled the roads here up until the 80’s. Anything imported from Europe was still uncommon here in the fifties.


That's a very good point about the domestic makes; however in my search through very old Canadian junkyards, VWs were always well represented. Not only this, but just count the number of Canadian finds in this forum. People keep thinking everything has been found, but Canada is a huge country, and VW found a great market for its trucks up there. It's arguably the best hunting ground in the world for early Type 2s.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 1:39 am    Post subject: Re: 1953 Barndoor, Sebastian - Alberta, Canada barn find Reply with quote

For all barndoors with hatch lovers, come on my M053 / M052 registry on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/426744197693637/?ref=group_header

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