1960 Volkswagen Bus Kombi on 2040-cars
West Milford, New Jersey, United States
Here is a 1960 Volkswagen Bus.......project. I had started work on this many years ago and then unfortunately lost garage space for it. It needs work that I would have loved to do but never had the chance due to other projects. Its basically a shell with complete drive train. When I got it, it did run and drive in only second due to linkage issues which. Its a pretty solid van underneath and I started to cut the outer rocker panel and a portion of the floor out in order to replace them.......then my space issue occured. The nose had some serious bondo on it and still does, my plan was to replace the entire clip. It has some rust in the rain channels. I have the windshield, rear glass and all side windows, I do not have the rear curved ones. Parts of the roof were cut out before I got it apparently it had custom roof panels on it. The passenger door has a dent in the bottom. Have some small stuff that came out of it as well but is'nt nearly the missing pieces to this puzzle, they just may help.
Not sure of original mileage but the engine did run. I read there were only 1300 of this particular bus ever brought to this country and have always loved the thought of how few there must be left and this one has such potential. |
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That's a mighty big increase over the 600,000 vehicles which the Volkswagen Group sold here last year, but it's moving in the right direction: That number is already a 100-percent increase of what it sold here just five years ago. At that rate, VW should have little trouble meeting its goals, particularly with the arrival of the new crossover and the introduction of Golf production at its assembly plant in Puebla, Mexico. Read the full statement below for more.
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Brazil contemplates safety exemption for VW Kombi as it goes out of production today [w/poll]
Tue, 31 Dec 2013Brazil: the country of carnivals, indescribable beauty adjacent to abject poverty, Ayrton Senna and old Volkswagen models. Only they're not old - they're new, they're just based on old designs. The original Beetle continued production there long after it had been phased out elsewhere, but the original Kombi van has lasted much longer. That ends today, however, with the iconic VW Microbus ambling out of production on the last day of 2013.
VW kept making the van in Brazil with the original air-cooled 1.2-liter boxer four until 2005, after which the original design was updated with a 1.4-liter water-cooled engine. Today, however, it ultimately falls prey to safety regulations that mandate that all vehicles - no matter how old their design - need to have airbags and ABS, forcing Volkswagen do Brasil to cease production of the Microbus after a 56-year production run. But the latest word is that the Kombi (as it's presently known) could get a stay of execution - or at least a resurrection in short order.
According to reports, the Brazilian government is looking into granting the Type 2 Microbus an exemption from said safety regulations, reasoning that the van was designed long before the advent of airbags and ABS. If the measure goes through, the Kombi Last Edition (pictured above) could prove not to be the last at all. So what do you think, should the Microbus get an exemption from Brazilian safety regulations for nostalgia's sake? Vote in our poll below, then have your say in Comments.