Rambo - Swedish Army Microbus with special slider

Rambo is a microbus from the Swedish Army with special hinged 'sliding' door.

Due with us soon so will get some better pics up.

Looks very much like cgturbos Swedish Army bus - funny that. Fancy a twin Chris?

Likely to be for sale in the future.

 

awsome looking bus 8)

love the over riders and some nice custom features for the Swedish Army looking

looking forward to checking out the M plate.............keep Birdy away from it ;D

nice solid looking bus underneath too

............If you need some one to break it in to the UK for a few months you could loan it to me ;D ;D ;D

 

Does 'special slider' mean broken slider?

 

paradox's dream bus????? ;D

 

Broken slider army mod yes.

 

Thats a cool looking bus but then i am slightly biased

 

I like that!......if only I had the money and space for a fleet of bays

 

Is it only me or do others wish their slider opened like that????
No more noisy slider on a camp site, on pull and its shut!!

 

Welcome to the swedish army group

;-)

 

I have a sneaking suspicion, that this is the same vehicle, which featured in The Samba Classified Advertisements, placed on Thursday, 30th August 2012, at an asking price of circa US$1000 (i.e. about £630)!

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1353004

Swedish ex-Military 8 seats bus Price: $1000 obo

The bus is in good condition underneath, but interior and outside is not very good.

The slidingdoor has been converted to side-hinged.

Seats has holes. Outside has dents almost all around. Nice exhaust on the typ4 engine.

A few years ago, a Danish correspondent of mine, notified me of a Danish specification, 1972 VW 16/1700 Type 2 POBA campervan, which was advertised for sale, in a local newspaper, for circa £200. Sadly, I no longer had a valid passport and it wasn't clear whether the vehicle was in a roadworthy driveable condition. It might have bee interesting, to have had something different!

 

That looks like the chap. Shame he wasn't £650 inc import and registrations.

So what do you reckon: keep his camo?

 

these swedish army buses always look like a great base for a project. CG turbos is now looking sweet

 

I would be interested to learn how effective the rear-wiper & washer system is in practice and to see the installation, inside the rear hatch.



As you might be aware, I adapted a cross-over-arm, pantograph rear-window wiper system, salvaged from an early-1980s vintage, Vauxhall Astra Mk.1 estate car, which I retro-fitted to my 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, sometime in 1990. I later wrote about it, in the December 1996 issue of VW Motoring magazine.

 

You gotta keep the camo mate, how mad would we look going for a cruise together

 

Think a couple of ex army busses in convoy would look the buisness 8)

Rambo would look good with a couple of nato green Jerry cans and an army spade on the back 8)

 

has to stay camo 8)

 

It has been suggested, by someone on The Samba forum, that the 1968~79 VW Type 2 rear-window wiper, might possibly be a factory-fitted option, corresponding to M-Code-425, which was said to have been an option in Germany, in 1979, priced at DM267•37.

Does your vehicle's M-Code plate, include 425?