Actually, not really new, I picked this one up a while back, but the weather has been generally sucking, so what time i've had has been eaten up with other people's toys.... now it's my turn, should be in the garage by this next month.
Rollin, 1964 Westy style....
Who says you can't still buy a splittie for under a grand?  You've just gotta drive out to the middle of freakin nowhere...
I have a pile of sheet metal laying here, waiting for the chop and weld operation....

'bout darned time i was behind the wheel of something without a radiator again.

Dealer Sticker from Don Coleman Motors, Dyersburg, Tennessee


Driver's side rough, including crap repair job with lots of bondo, rivets, and sheet tin.  donor section acquired from another bus, new nose too...


pretty straight pass side, the usual rot... rockers, cab floor corners, cargo floor really solid...

Oh, and i almost forgot... build date june 64, same as my beetle....
Pearl White... same as my beetle....

And, Lastly, a dismantled pile of poop... same as my beetle...
 

I like it!  i really love busses!  ESP splittys  Zen might have some parts.

Guy who runs a body shop north of there in Dresden.  He said that it had an engine in it, but they had put it in another bus some time back.  You said guy lied about it? lied about what?

Perhaps another guy, may have changed hands before i bought it, because this dude told me in his first email that it, in his words, "needed everything"..... actually, by my calculations, it will need almost everything.... :lol: He said that it had a lot of rust... he's never seen my double cab.... and that it had been hit in the nose.  Actually, i expected much worse before getting there....

The worst part of the whole bus is the terrible repair job that was done on the drivers side.  It was tagged down low, from the wheel arch back, and the fixed it by riveting tin sheets to the back (cargo area) side of the bulkhead panel, and on top of the floor outer section.  then they loaded up the drivers side bulkhead with about 12 qts of bondo, to "smooth it out". .... nice.  The mangle floor support? still there, heck, why bother fixing that, just put the sheet metal over it.... :roll:   anyway, i have a very nice, straight section of both from a donr bus, so it shouldn't be an issue.
The rust is actually not that bad, but it does need all of the regular stuff for this part of the country.
I never have understood why people have to lie/ omit things when trying to sell a vehicle over the internet.... it would make the buying process much easier if they didn't do crap like that... :?

I don't know what the hell happened to it, it was like it just woke up one morning like 20% consumed by rust.... :lol:
For what it's worth, what's left is at least mostly straight.

Naw, The double cab is still there, but i figured with the amount of rust repair needed, i'm gonna try to fix this bus and my bug before moving on to the truck, besides, i'd like to go back mostly original with it, so i'm going to start searching out parts, and just stickpile them for a while.  no big rush, i've got plenty of other stuff to keep me busy.

 :wink:
Like things and notchbacks, and ghias, and jettas, and.... sorry that would keep going if i didn't stop it... :lol:

Yeah, bought a bunch of metal, that's the extent of my extra coin for now....
like i said, i'll be stockpiling stuff for the double, so it's last in the firing order for now.... :lol:

Holler if you need help holdin panels while you tack them in.

Yeah same here.  I'm all for volunteering some time at your shop just so I can learn if you don't mind someone hanging around helping.  Even help you with mine and ask for no discounts.