1959 VW type 2 Kombi on Air belonging to Cheers

now there's several answers to that !! :shock:

what's up with your butt then?

There's a US electrical hook up thing one one side which Ive now decided is part of the buses history so will leave alone, on the other side are holes where an awning fitting has been removed. Im in the long RHR queue to try and get an awning fitting back on (we have the awning, its the same as the one on the maroon split that was in the split club field at Stanford)

If anyone has awning fittings for sale Im in the market

hippychick wrote:

There's a US electrical hook up thing one one side which Ive now decided is part of the buses history so will leave alone, on the other side are holes where an awning fitting has been removed. Im in the long RHR queue to try and get an awning fitting back on (we have the awning, its the same as the one on the maroon split that was in the split club field at Stanford)

If anyone has awning fittings for sale Im in the market

the awning fixings are on the roof and they are both present, the holes in the back are from where the gas tank for the cooker etc was fitted...

I guess I'll need those holes filxing then. However there should be lower fittings at the front and back of the bus on one side, which aren't there....we saw them on the maroon split at Stanford.....it had precisely the same awning, same colour stripes !

hippychick wrote:

There's a US electrical hook up thing one one side which Ive now decided is part of the buses history so will leave alone, ..........

like this one?....

Yes Ian, precisely the same.....I was just about to go online and apologise to you for hijacking your post for trivial reasons......
Its the same hook up in the same place

cool.
yeah, I kinda like mine. Gonna keep it just the way it is.
no need to apologise.

A quick catch-up.......

Rocky notched the frame a month or 2 ago...

the new 1915cc motor has arrived .....here it is with the header bolted on

I got hold of an old engine lid at volksworld show (to save cutting my original one)......
these new holes aren't for some kind of gay tali-light set-up

I've had a set of "temignoini" end-cans from a Ducati 916 put aside for a while now. So yesterday it was time to "disassmble" them

& then....ressemble them


......Now you can guess why I cut the ovals out of the engine lid

(well, I was always gonna struggle with bottoming out most of the shelf exhauts, so this might solve the issue)

bet they gonna sound cool and they will be different on a vw but sound ducati people will cringe that you cut up some termi's , but eh who gives a sh........ look forward to seeing the pics when fitted

I spent a day on the header last weekend.....
Cut the merged section off the new thunderbird header..

extended one leg and brought one pair of manifolds back in to re-merge.....

I spent the rest of the day and a half measuring, cutting, bending & tacking bits of exhaust tubing.
Tim then finished off the welding of all the parts of the new jigsaw I gave him!!

modern art sculpture !

I'm going to be spending the next few hours i get spare grinding

looks like a game of twister , only in steel tubing

it's probably a lot easier playing twister (& more fun, depending on who you play with !)....anyhow, here's the final header looking ok with a bit of paint on.

looks better

Looking good dude looks like it's all coming together well!

yeah, very slowly, but surely

well, after the first time of running the engine resulted in a total siezure after about 4 seconds, the motor is now back after having the casing magnesium welded, re-machined and with a new balanced crank & lightened flywheel.

let's hope it runs a bit longer this time :shock:

sad to hear about the engine any ideas why it seized .
looks like a nice scooter in the garage too , what is it

bloke who biult it reckons the guy who grinds his cranks cocked it up.
Still, he fixed it for free & dropped it back to my house so we'll see how it fayres this time.

the scooter under the cover is a custom lammy jet 200 (now stage 5 225)


the other white & red one is an indian GP 150 (now 175)
here's the "before" pic