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Braukuche Samba Member
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 7:17 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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MrPolak wrote: |
Sold For $34,750 On 5/14/21 |
Fair price maybe even a bit high. That bus looks pretty solid but needs a lot of cosmetic work unless you just want a decent Westy to camp in. _________________ Go Reds! Smash state!
Retirement is here!
1956 Ghia
1959 SO-23 Westfalia
1960 double cab
1960 Baja Bug
1963 stretched double cab
1962 Golde sunroof Ghia
1963 356 B coupe
1963 Notchback
1967 21 window less rusty now |
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teahead Samba Member
Joined: October 30, 2019 Posts: 326 Location: Seattle
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 11:06 am Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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I agree.
I don't think you're going to get a westy walk-through in that condition for much cheaper these days. _________________ '63 German Walk-Thru Deluxe 15-window - SOLD |
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turkis-deluxe Samba Security
Joined: January 06, 2001 Posts: 1547 Location: 94518
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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I actually bid on that bus with the intent to buy it but lost out near the end. There's no real major issues and it just needs to be gone through and fix all the little things and that bus would be a great turn key Westy. As others have pointed out it is a complete SO42 and is a pop top walk thru and original Velvet Green bus so a lot of positives there. Hope the new owner will be happy and I think he got a solid bus at a really fair price. |
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teahead Samba Member
Joined: October 30, 2019 Posts: 326 Location: Seattle
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Alan Brase Samba Member
Joined: March 28, 2004 Posts: 4532 Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 3:54 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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turkis-deluxe wrote: |
I actually bid on that bus with the intent to buy it but lost out near the end. There's no real major issues and it just needs to be gone through and fix all the little things and that bus would be a great turn key Westy. As others have pointed out it is a complete SO42 and is a pop top walk thru and original Velvet Green bus so a lot of positives there. Hope the new owner will be happy and I think he got a solid bus at a really fair price. |
Pretty sure it was NOT original Velvet Green, but rather ivory.
Pretty decent bones, but seemed like a lot of money. I do not think it was a turn key driver, but the successful bidder was well informed. _________________ Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home |
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Alan Brase Samba Member
Joined: March 28, 2004 Posts: 4532 Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Possibly legit.
Only about 30 things away from being properly sorted. Biggest problems the bumpers and paint colors. We will see what the market says.
I don't think there are any $100k early buses anymore. _________________ Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home |
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will t Samba Member
Joined: February 23, 2009 Posts: 179
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Alan Brase wrote: |
turkis-deluxe wrote: |
I actually bid on that bus with the intent to buy it but lost out near the end. There's no real major issues and it just needs to be gone through and fix all the little things and that bus would be a great turn key Westy. As others have pointed out it is a complete SO42 and is a pop top walk thru and original Velvet Green bus so a lot of positives there. Hope the new owner will be happy and I think he got a solid bus at a really fair price. |
Pretty sure it was NOT original Velvet Green, but rather ivory.
Pretty decent bones, but seemed like a lot of money. I do not think it was a turn key driver, but the successful bidder was well informed. |
Hi All, @Alan Brase thank you for your kind comment to me on the comments section of the BaT auction. The bus actually was Velvet green. Much of the interior and exterior surface was painted during a "rerstoration" prior to my seller's tenure of ownership, but there is a good picture of the air box and the interior surface of the top of the bus where the headliner panels would go, and all that is original paint. There is a thread I started called "Is it a 66 or a 67" and that goes well into the ID plates, VIN, etc.
I will eventually (soon) start a build thread as i have already stripped all the Westfalia stuff and everything else out of the rear of the bus and I intend to go through the bus and get it back to as original a state as I can. It does have decent bones and it was a lot of money but so far it is dead straight, no rust, no collision repairs, nothing. I haven't gotten to the nose but... we'll see. Keep an eye out for a build thread.
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Alan Brase Samba Member
Joined: March 28, 2004 Posts: 4532 Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 2:53 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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My bad! I do now remember the green around the M-plate!
and AGREED! a velvet green bus is more attractive to me also.
I guess I'm kinda a believer in serendipity and usually go with the "love the one you're with" plan with regard to car color anyway. Meaning, yes, this should be put back to green in my mind also.
The first VW bus I ever owned and drove very much was a very ratty 1970 green with white top. I came to love that thing, so the green is just about my favorite color. Is the 1970 green color the same as 1967?
BTW, did you notice that is a rather early VIN for a 1967. Could be one of the very FIRST 1967 Westfalia's?
My 1980 Vanagon Westy is quite a high VIN but still built in July 79 and it is still about the the 5th oldest VIN I have found. (Just looking at numbers, there is no known registry of Vanagons.) Might be more bragging rights? That and a dime will get you a cuppa coffee? _________________ Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home |
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will t Samba Member
Joined: February 23, 2009 Posts: 179
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 10:44 am Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Alan Brase wrote: |
My bad! I do now remember the green around the M-plate!
and AGREED! a velvet green bus is more attractive to me also.
I guess I'm kinda a believer in serendipity and usually go with the "love the one you're with" plan with regard to car color anyway. Meaning, yes, this should be put back to green in my mind also.
The first VW bus I ever owned and drove very much was a very ratty 1970 green with white top. I came to love that thing, so the green is just about my favorite color. Is the 1970 green color the same as 1967?
BTW, did you notice that is a rather early VIN for a 1967. Could be one of the very FIRST 1967 Westfalia's?
My 1980 Vanagon Westy is quite a high VIN but still built in July 79 and it is still about the the 5th oldest VIN I have found. (Just looking at numbers, there is no known registry of Vanagons.) Might be more bragging rights? That and a dime will get you a cuppa coffee? |
Hi Alan, yes, the bus I bought has a very low VIN for a 67 and some of the smart and well educated members here have narrowed down the probable build date as July 7 1966. And it may be that the 07 7 stamping on the M-code plate was a mistake at the factory, and that it was supposed to be 07 6. I am interested to know how many 67's were built before mine. I tried to find that info out using the VIN page but I can't interpret the page well enough to be sure.
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Braukuche Samba Member
Joined: September 03, 2004 Posts: 11005
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 12:53 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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will t wrote: |
Alan Brase wrote: |
My bad! I do now remember the green around the M-plate!
and AGREED! a velvet green bus is more attractive to me also.
I guess I'm kinda a believer in serendipity and usually go with the "love the one you're with" plan with regard to car color anyway. Meaning, yes, this should be put back to green in my mind also.
The first VW bus I ever owned and drove very much was a very ratty 1970 green with white top. I came to love that thing, so the green is just about my favorite color. Is the 1970 green color the same as 1967?
BTW, did you notice that is a rather early VIN for a 1967. Could be one of the very FIRST 1967 Westfalia's?
My 1980 Vanagon Westy is quite a high VIN but still built in July 79 and it is still about the the 5th oldest VIN I have found. (Just looking at numbers, there is no known registry of Vanagons.) Might be more bragging rights? That and a dime will get you a cuppa coffee? |
Hi Alan, yes, the bus I bought has a very low VIN for a 67 and some of the smart and well educated members here have narrowed down the probable build date as July 7 1966. And it may be that the 07 7 stamping on the M-code plate was a mistake at the factory, and that it was supposed to be 07 6. I am interested to know how many 67's were built before mine. I tried to find that info out using the VIN page but I can't interpret the page well enough to be sure. |
Super early 67s still had the small radio opening, at least my 21 window does. Later had the big radio opening but no reverse lights and then even later had the reverse lights added. _________________ Go Reds! Smash state!
Retirement is here!
1956 Ghia
1959 SO-23 Westfalia
1960 double cab
1960 Baja Bug
1963 stretched double cab
1962 Golde sunroof Ghia
1963 356 B coupe
1963 Notchback
1967 21 window less rusty now |
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otherbeach Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2016 Posts: 281 Location: Illinois
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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:53 am Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Groovy single cab on BAT
It is ...purple
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966-volkswagen-single-cab-transporter-3/ _________________ Coming to you from God’s Own Time Zone: Central Time…up near the Illinois/Minnesota border. ** Note I am currently (mostly) INACTIVE in the bus community due to temporary life changes. My price tracking from 2016 to 2021 is now over and data stored offline **
"Cows at the border of the Dairy State and the Land of Lincoln are remarkably honest." |
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iamdonquixote Samba Member
Joined: January 28, 2003 Posts: 2041 Location: M*ssholia
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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:25 am Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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turkis-deluxe wrote: |
I actually bid on that bus with the intent to buy it but lost out near the end. There's no real major issues and it just needs to be gone through and fix all the little things and that bus would be a great turn key Westy. As others have pointed out it is a complete SO42 and is a pop top walk thru and original Velvet Green bus so a lot of positives there. Hope the new owner will be happy and I think he got a solid bus at a really fair price. |
price seems high by more than 10k to me. |
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j.pickens Samba Member
Joined: December 03, 2002 Posts: 9791 Location: Exit 7, New Jersey
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 9:42 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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iamdonquixote wrote: |
turkis-deluxe wrote: |
I actually bid on that bus with the intent to buy it but lost out near the end. There's no real major issues and it just needs to be gone through and fix all the little things and that bus would be a great turn key Westy. As others have pointed out it is a complete SO42 and is a pop top walk thru and original Velvet Green bus so a lot of positives there. Hope the new owner will be happy and I think he got a solid bus at a really fair price. |
price seems high by more than 10k to me. |
This is why it's unlikely I'll be buying any more buses. I'm stuck with what I got. _________________ Founder and Chairman Emeritus, ECMSAS
BBX BBXII and BBXXI Long Distance Award Winner
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i wish more people would actually drive their vws rather than just talking about what they have in the garage. |
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Alan Brase Samba Member
Joined: March 28, 2004 Posts: 4532 Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:07 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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j.pickens wrote: |
iamdonquixote wrote: |
price seems high by more than 10k to me. |
This is why it's unlikely I'll be buying any more buses. I'm stuck with what I got. |
Really? part of it seems $30k high to this old fart.
Not too likely I'll be a big bidder on BAT. (I should bought one of the 912 coupe tubs sold a few years back!)
I agree, but actually there are not a lot that appeal to me. I'm leaning to a 1968-75 Westy more than an early one and I have a 1970 that is a big project. Maybe a Wild Westerner hightop?
Most of these bidders are driven by dynamic incomes or old money in crazy amounts.
It costs them a lot to get to what we already had.
My $900 baby from 1995;
Rear picture:
So, yeah, after this, where do I go? _________________ Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home |
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MrPolak Samba Member
Joined: June 20, 2004 Posts: 1337 Location: AG ,atnaltA
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Alan Brase Samba Member
Joined: March 28, 2004 Posts: 4532 Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 11:27 am Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Fire extinguisher needs to be 6 times that big. _________________ Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home |
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cdennisg Samba Member
Joined: November 02, 2004 Posts: 20278 Location: Sandpoint, ID
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Purple. _________________ nothing |
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Braukuche Samba Member
Joined: September 03, 2004 Posts: 11005
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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They should have buried Prince in that thing. _________________ Go Reds! Smash state!
Retirement is here!
1956 Ghia
1959 SO-23 Westfalia
1960 double cab
1960 Baja Bug
1963 stretched double cab
1962 Golde sunroof Ghia
1963 356 B coupe
1963 Notchback
1967 21 window less rusty now |
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Alan Brase Samba Member
Joined: March 28, 2004 Posts: 4532 Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 8:08 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Braukuche wrote: |
They should have buried Prince in that thing. |
That is sad in a couple ways.
And I do not disagree. _________________ Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home |
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MrPolak Samba Member
Joined: June 20, 2004 Posts: 1337 Location: AG ,atnaltA
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