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Our first VW bus bought in the same way as Brunswick through the Samba.com website. This was to be a daily driver. Bought on the strength of these pics on Samba;

 

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This is the bus when we collected it from Chatham docks;

 

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Looked ok but, it needed;

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new lower nose panels inner and outer,

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doglegs both sides

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3 outriggers

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1 main chassis rail

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floor sections

 

And this was before it would MOT. So we decided that my welding skills and Jamie's frown were too compelling - this was a project too much. Sold to FBIVW strangely enough.

 

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Did not put us off tho'

 

01/01/2006