Buying opinions please

I thought it looked fine when I sold


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Apologies for hijacking your thread


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I LIKE IT!!

 

No need

 

I would stick with this over anything modern
However I sold mine
After it’s gone It’s done finished and unless you Have an enormous budget you will never get back what you had

 

A SWB will give you the daily drive flexibility but not the extra comfort and space you are seeking, especially with the caravelle seating arrangement.

I'd imagine the roof bed is fun for lightweight kids but would cripple a grown adult, so you'd be fannying about making up a three quarter bed squeezed in the back.
Not worth the £17k to compromise in my opinion.

 

You’ve been drinking


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Half a shandy and he`s anybodys ...

 

Self isolation on an island, what do you expect


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How about this:

https://brazilianvwbay.forumotion.com/d10309737-2005-air-cooled-for-sale

 

LHD :-(

 

you could get a decent proper bay for that and it would probably have less rust.

 

A decent proper bay?

Because it was made in Germany 45 years ago, has been 'restored' several times with pattern panels, filler and newspaper and dreams of putting out its fearsome 47bhp of factory power?

 

I don't mind that it's slow,
just that it's low inside.
One thing I do know is,
I really can't decide!

(Can you tell I dun wun of them there English degrees?)

I've even considered getting a pop top fitted but it'll still be LHD, so no shared driving going round the coast, and I might as well take a sledge hammer to it in terms of what that'll do to the "inheritance value"!

 

Looks very expensive to me.

Few observations.

A swb can feel as small as a Bay inside.... And not being walk through is bloody annoying!! You think you'll deal with it... You won't!

A LWB is just as easy to drive,they're just big cars. I've had both and you won't notice the difference.

The conversion is odd..... Might be perfect for some but make it unsellable to many others.

Like the others have said, check everything about the quality of the conversion as it massively affects the value.

Check for history.... Cambelt, clutches, gearboxes, driveshafts, all go and are all very expensive!

T5's are great utility vehicles..... But as a pure camper I'd take a Bay everytime.

 

Thank you, I basically agree ... I've been "parallel searching" for a RHD early with upgraded brakes, type 1 engine, rust work done well, etc etc .... Apart from anything else I've always seen cars as moving sculpture, so personally a tarted up work van is not going to cut it ..... but then I wouldn't have ever owned a T2, or stumbled into TLB if I hadn't set about giving some class to the bosses dream of touring the UK coast ... and she's the one "driving" the idea of modernising and making life easier for two soon-to-be old crocks

 

The van that started this thread doesn't cut it, that's for sure.
I think the parallel searching will have to continue, and in the mean time the plan to maximise the value of the project shell for selling will probably go up a gear .....

 

Have a look in the classifieds on the Brazilian Bay forum and VWKampers in Henfield. They have some stupidly priced ones like everywhere else does, but you can get reasonably priced from time to time, the later water cooled ones can have the Litesteer power steering conversion which, when coupled to the 1.4 Polo engine and a proper matrix heater in the cab, will move you along at 70mph in comfort and relative quietness.