Mistaken automotive beliefs

[AutoshiteBoy]

Just buy a LDV Pilot and win

[LynehamHerc]

I'm hoping I can pick a "cheap" T1 or T2 when they all get sold off in 3 years time because of the above realities.

If I'm correct the T1 is the Beetle not the Splitty.

[mercrocker]

I try and avoid Wolfsburg semantics but Typ 1 is Beetle, 2 Transporter, 3 those fastback/notchback/variant things and 4 the 411/412. There are additional Types of the Transporter within the overall grouping - think they are up to Type 37-and-a-half or something now. The T25 I have is sometimes referred to as a T3 for example so I really stopped caring.....

I would imagine there are still arcane factory codes for all their stuff based loosely on the original Type numbers.

[AMCrebel]

I'm hoping I can pick a "cheap" T1 or T2 when they all get sold off in 3 years time because of the above realities.

Unfortunately that’s about as likely as being able to buy a cheap Harley when the owner realises it’s not actually a motorcycle at all.
There’s always a queue of people with their fingers in their ears about any drawbacks.

[SiC]

There’s always a queue of people with their fingers in their ears about any drawbacks.

Most of them won't be interested in getting into a welding project though.

They don't look that hard to weld up as the structure is pretty simple?

[mercrocker]

I haven't got directly involved with welding but I have seen a lot of stuff getting done over the years in the course of getting my own wreck as near solid as it should be. What I have noticed is that there does not seem to be anything that can't be restored and that the cost of doing so doesn't seem to greatly differ from MOT-generated repairs to entire sides of a T2 or the complete cab structure of a Split. Might explain why even basket-cases go for so much. Half a morning's work and you have the thing back to a shell and panelwork is all available much more cheaply than fabrication.

[mercrocker]

Anyway to get the thread back on track and only slightly tangental from the above couple of posts......

Safari windows (those stupid opening screens on split VWs for goatee-d visages to grimace from their uncomfortable perches)....Never happened as far as I can see. Anyone know differently?

[LynehamHerc]

Welding and fabrication on my T2 took several hundred hours.
Maybe I was ripped off but I used to go every couple of weeks or so to check progress and discuss issues.
There's a lot more panels available now but doors are still not, parts of the rear quarters aren't, sliding doors aren't etc.etc..
So there's a lot of fabrication even now.
Funnily enough, probably because of the relative value and far longer production run, there's lots more Splitty body panels than say a T2a earlybay.

[LynehamHerc]

Anyway to get the thread back on track and only slightly tangental from the above couple of posts......

Safari windows (those stupid opening screens on split VWs for goatee-d visages to grimace from their uncomfortable perches)....Never happened as far as I can see. Anyone know differently?

There's a specialist who makes seals that apparently stop them leaking so much. You can also buy rear Safaris.

[Bazfr69]

This chap is in our local Beetle fb group.