Lurch my 1962 So34 flipseat

[ento]

Couple of months ago I was lucky enough to purchase a one owner 62 So34. The story I got from the owners son is that the PO had purchased/ordered it in Germany. It was driven around Europe for a while and they had it delivered to Florida. From Florida they drove it to Las Cruces New Mexico. It went from NM to Colorado and then back to NM where I got it. Far as I can tell they tried getting it back on the road in 07 but it doesn't look like it's been driven since 83.
I haven't done much except change the fuel lines, some brake work, and clean it out but I was able to get it going enough to hit a local show and take it to OCTO and the Revival this past weekend.
Plans are to have it ready for BBB
AS POSTED ON FB

THE BUS WENT THROUGH A MIDDLE MAN SO THESE ARE PICS I WAS SENT. AFTER THE FIRST BATH IN 20 YEARS

ME PICKING IT UP

FACTORY SAFARIS AND 6 POPOUTS

COULD IT REALLY HAVE COME WITH A 1500???

ORIGINAL MANUAL

FLIPSEAT ON A WALKTHROUGH? IS THAT COMMON?

As soon as I get the birth certificate I will ad that to the pics
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62 type 2 So34
66 European bug, 66 euro sunroof
76 baja
76 sun bug sunroof
64,66,67,68 bug
69,70 bay
61 Ragtop bug, 61 sedan(looking for the vert)
61 RHD Ragtop Semaphore bug fakeAF
64,64 KG
74 thing
55 oval
70 ratrod
73 fastback pignose

[ento]

All the camper interior it came with.
PO had taken it out and installed a full length middle seat and a rear seat.

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62 type 2 So34
66 European bug, 66 euro sunroof
76 baja
76 sun bug sunroof
64,66,67,68 bug
69,70 bay
61 Ragtop bug, 61 sedan(looking for the vert)
61 RHD Ragtop Semaphore bug fakeAF
64,64 KG
74 thing
55 oval
70 ratrod
73 fastback pignose

[EverettB]

Nice find!

No on the 1500cc engine for a 1962 model.

If you want to be 100% sure, 1500s have this air cleaner hanger on the top of the engine compartment like this photo:

40h engine Buses use the smaller air cleaner that mounts to the shroud with a little triangle instead:

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[ento]

[quote="EverettB"]Nice find!

No on the 1500cc engine for a 1962 model.

Thank you!
And
That is what I was thinking as well. Everyone kept saying that 62 was to early for the 1500.
The m code generator just threw me when it said 1493 for the engine size.
There are couple of other oddities it seems.
Like no locking steering and laminated glass even though it's M coded for North American equipment.

You can kind of see the delamination

But of course, I am just going off what people have told me and what feed back I got at OCTO from those that noticed him.
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62 type 2 So34
66 European bug, 66 euro sunroof
76 baja
76 sun bug sunroof
64,66,67,68 bug
69,70 bay
61 Ragtop bug, 61 sedan(looking for the vert)
61 RHD Ragtop Semaphore bug fakeAF
64,64 KG
74 thing
55 oval
70 ratrod
73 fastback pignose

[ento]

[von_hansel]

I love your bus! Thank you for letting me look all over it in line at OCTO. It was really nice meeting you in person and I am super excited to see what you do with it. It looks like you have most of the interior. Did it come with the three cushions that make up the bed?

Cheers,
Johnny

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[oakman]

Bummed I missed Octo last weekend and seeing your flipseat.

[70bus]

I'd keep the SAC decals. And does it have the air conditioner parts still in it, or just the control box?
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Craig K
70 Neunsitzer
65 Pritschenwagen
"If Von Dutch was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot these people." - Robert Williams

Raul the 65 singlecab

Karl the 70 nine-seater

[Eric&Barb]

[EverettB]

[BarryL]

You scored.

[Eric&Barb]

From the FEB62 owners manual:

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[Ragtop]

Love it brother, let me know when you reay to send it this way

[Eric&Barb]

[crofty]

[ento]

[ento]

[70bus]

Wouldn't delivery to Iceland (JS) but no tourist delivery (UT) simply mean that they bought it in Iceland and brought it over? The family in "Safari for 7" did just that - ordered it while in US, picked it up in Rotterdam or some such, drove it everywhere, sent it home. Seemed not unusual back then. Pics looked like a Euro-spec bus but I'm not an expert, and I note yours has "US equipment" so likely they could be kitted out to be legal where you intended to bring it home, no matter where delivered.

In other words, Tourist Delivery might not have been the only way to skin a bus!

"Previous owner" stories can also be wrong, or blurred by time. Possible he ordered a bus, picked it up in Iceland at first port-of-call, and then drove it around Europe before deciding to keep it upon returning.
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Craig K
70 Neunsitzer
65 Pritschenwagen
"If Von Dutch was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot these people." - Robert Williams

Raul the 65 singlecab

Karl the 70 nine-seater

[ento]

This is what his son told me about it. But we all played that game of telephone as kids lol.
"I don’t know if my family has any old pictures of that bus that are easy to get to. I’m sure some exist somewhere, but they may be deep in storage.

What I can tell you is that my dad bought the bus off the factory floor in Germany and came over to the US with it on a boat. That’s the story I was told. I wasn’t born until seven years later.

My dad was in the Air Force, and my family moved around a lot - from Tucson, to South Carolina, to Florida, where I was born, and then to New Mexico. I remember riding in the back of that bus when I was five years old (in 1974) and crossing the Mississippi River in it. I looked out the window and had a sudden change in my perception of what a river was - I had never realized one could be so huge. We ended up settling in Las Cruces, NM where my dad went to work for the civil service at White Sands Missile Range. He used to drive that bus back and forth over the organ mountains to and from work - that’s where the sticker on the windshield came from.

I remember riding around in that bus in town as a kid, and I think I may have driven it a few times when I got older - but mostly I drove later model buses that my dad also bought. My dad spent a lot of time tinkering with his cars in the driveway of our home in Las Cruces, and I recall him doing various unknown things with that bus, pulling the engine, etc. I watched but didn’t actually learn too much about cars from him. I would hand him tools occasionally or help him with something - so maybe I picked up more than I thought. But after a while that bus just sat, and when he passed away in 2016 I inherited it.

I had always wanted to spend some time fixing it up, but lately realized that the project was beyond me and decided to sell it.

Its name is Lurch, by the way. That’s the name my family gave it when I was very young, possibly before I was born. After the Addams Family.

I hope you enjoy it and I would love to hear more as you work to restore it."
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62 type 2 So34
66 European bug, 66 euro sunroof
76 baja
76 sun bug sunroof
64,66,67,68 bug
69,70 bay
61 Ragtop bug, 61 sedan(looking for the vert)
61 RHD Ragtop Semaphore bug fakeAF
64,64 KG
74 thing
55 oval
70 ratrod
73 fastback pignose

[70bus]

So maybe not a Tourist Delivery - just went to VW, said "I like that one" and it was originally going to Iceland but now isn't and he drives it off .

I suspect there is a big SCENE MISSING card in there somewhere.

In any event, you have more clue as to how your bus got started on its journey than many of us.
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Craig K
70 Neunsitzer
65 Pritschenwagen
"If Von Dutch was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot these people." - Robert Williams

Raul the 65 singlecab

Karl the 70 nine-seater