[tcb] Re: Volkswagen to offer factory restorations of the iconic microbus
- From: "w.wood" <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 21:41:31 -0500
I think if I were in Europe this would be attractive however I'd have to
question the fact that would VW be any better than say Lenny Coop at West
Coast Classics?
Also ACVWs haven't been produced in Germany for a long time, and I would
have to ask myself if the hassle of shipping etc is worth it too,
especially with a rare bus. Then getting it back without any damage etc.
That's just me personally.
Yeah, if you have the scratch it would be something to do but a lot less
hassle to just send it to California. Yeah, you'd have to wait months,
maybe years but it may at least let you sleep at night instead of having
your bus wind up at the bottom of the ocean after the shipping container
fell overboard...
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/new-zealand-files-charges-against-m-v-rena-owners
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 5:56 PM, James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Damn. Both of my Buses are already restored...
>
> James
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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<http://www.volkswagen-commercial-vehicles.com/en.html> 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<http://www.volkswagen-commercial-vehicles.com/en/company/chronicle.html>,
> 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.
> <http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/bus-2.jpg>
> 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.
> <http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/bus-3.jpg>
> As Mercedes-Benz owners can do at the Mercedes-Benz Classic
> Centers<http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/enthusiast/classic_center>,
> 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.
> <http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/04/bus-4.jpg>
> 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<http://www.vw-classicparts.de/bestand/index_e.html> supports
> the VW Bus workshop as a partner.”
>
> With prices of vintage Sambas edging
> ever-upward<http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/01/31/the-lengths-some-people-will-go-to-for-an-old-vw/>,
> 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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