[tcb] Re: Volkswagen to offer factory restorations of the iconic microbus
- From: James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 15:56:07 -0700 (PDT)
Damn. Both of my Buses are already restored...
James
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'59 23 Window Deluxe
'73/'77 Westfakia
'78 Super Vert
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From: Tyler Chamberlain <hexarobi@xxxxxxxxx>
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 5:43 PM
Subject: [tcb] Volkswagen to offer factory restorations of the iconic microbus
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/04/05/volkswagen-to-offer-factory-restorations-of-the-iconic-microbus/
Like many automakers today, Volkswagen knows the value of its famous heritage,
and the goodwill that heritage still generates around the world with Volkwagen
fans and the general public alike. VW’s Commercial Vehicles branch – based in
Hannover, Germany, where the original Type 2 Bus was built from the 1950s on –
has since 2007 had a department called Commercial Vehicles Oldtimers. This
department has been dedicated to preserving the heritage of the iconic VW Bus
and its variants, and in that vein, a team of trained mechanics (as well as a
technological historian and an event planner) have purchased and restored about
100 vehicles for internal VW use.
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Oldtimers announced recently that it will now
offer its services restoring historic VW commercial vehicles to external
customers. This department, consisting of 13 people, has moved to a new
7,000-square meter (75,347-square foot) building that accommodates the historic
vehicles, a machine shop, and a paint shop.
As Mercedes-Benz owners can do at the Mercedes-Benz Classic Centers, owners of
air- and water-cooled Buses can bring their cars back to Hannover, where they
were built, for mechanical or cosmetic sorting, partial or full restoration.
VW Commercial Vehicle Oldtimers explain:
“The unique feature: only here does the customer receive certificated ex works
restoration. In addition, for each customer the team of Volkswagen Commercial
Vehicles Oldtimers provides comprehensive documentation of the restoration of
the vehicle, in which every step is photographically documented and described
in detail. Thus the work performed by the specialists from Hannover is recorded
for posterity, and customers can leaf through their folder whenever they wish.
Some of the replacement parts needed when working on oldtimers are even taken
from Volkswagen’s original stock.
>Here Volkswagen Classic Parts supports the VW Bus workshop as a partner.”
With prices of vintage Sambas edging ever-upward, wouldn’t a factory
restoration be the ultimate prize?
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/04/05/volkswagen-to-offer-factory-restorations-of-the-iconic-microbus/
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-Tyler Chamberlain
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