This isn't a wanted ad, although I'd love a nice camper. :wink: It seems like prices vary wildly, some dealers asking stupid money - others seem a good price but are immediately jumped on by flippers.
Also, is the market for them starting to die out? Seems like searching all the usual sources and there's not many ads about.
Posted by: Rattletrap - 13 February 2012 10:28:03
[quote=pre67vw]This isn't a wanted ad, although I'd love a nice camper. :wink: It seems like prices vary wildly, some dealers asking stupid money - others seem a good price but are immediately jumped on by flippers.
Also, is the market for them starting to die out? Seems like searching all the usual sources and there's not many ads about.[/quote]
I myself really wonder why [i]TypeIIs[/i] fetch (well ask for) so much money, they're not a real [i]Porsche[/i] design and are really just a spin-off from the much more sucessful Beetle which is a Porsche (and [i]Ledwinka[/i]) design.
Having said that an unmolested original rot free split screen (not [i]Fleetlines[/i] though:thumbdn:) has to be worth serious money, they're rather scarce to say the least. I rate the values along side that of the split window Beetle, a nice one £15-20k, and around £25k for the earlier small rear window ones.:wink:
Posted by: rudolf hucker - 13 February 2012 13:56:04
[quote=rudolf hucker]Here's one!
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C281322
Rudy[/quote]
Are you serious.:?
Anyway [i]Rob[/i] said right hand drive:p
Posted by: rudolf hucker - 13 February 2012 15:59:30
Yes....sorry.............RHD..........good luck...........probably be even more expensive.
What are your objections to this one?
:p was uneccessary..I was only trying to help.
Posted by: lifeintheslowlane - 13 February 2012 19:17:18
[quote=GKL 7]Yeah! wonder who's selling that one, eh Rudy.
[/quote]
Nope not Rudy's...it says "Region: Warwickshire" not Region: Albania.
The desire for a RHD more or less rules out the best source for a Splittie...a US dry state.
Posted by: pre67vw - 13 February 2012 20:03:05
[quote=lifeintheslowlane]Nope not Rudy's...it says "Region: Warwickshire" not Region: Albania.
The desire for a RHD more or less rules out the best source for a Splittie...a US dry state.[/quote]
Not to bothered about which side I sit on to steer it, but having the side doors open pavement side appeals, not keen on the kids jumping out traffic side.
Posted by: Rich Oakley - 13 February 2012 23:11:37
My advice would always be to buy a Bay Window RHD camper rather than a Split. I've owned a few Split Buses and they have been far less practical as campers than bays.
Posted by: lifeintheslowlane - 14 February 2012 09:08:48
[quote=pre67vw]Not to bothered about which side I sit on to steer it, but having the side doors open pavement side appeals, not keen on the kids jumping out traffic side.[/quote]
I can't ever remember parking on a busy street in our Brazilian Bus in the years we had it so it wasn't really an issue. If it had been I'm sure at least one of the drunken yobbos we used to carry around would have been run over.:wink:
Posted by: GKL 7 - 14 February 2012 16:47:17
[quote=Rich Oakley]My advice would always be to buy a Bay Window RHD camper rather than a Split. I've owned a few Split Buses and they have been far less practical as campers than bays.[/quote]
Far more practical Rich but lacking a bit of character.
I think the split screen bus is every bit as iconic as the beetle.
Posted by: kevsplitty - 14 February 2012 19:51:11
Im lucky both my buses are Rhd,got my camper years ago before the stupid prices,but picked my single cab up in the summer for very reasonable price,so there are still a few bargains out there! Failing getting a rhd,a swedish bus has the cargo doors on the same side so easier & safer for the kids:wink:
Posted by: Robb - 15 February 2012 09:05:24
[quote=Rich Oakley]My advice would always be to buy a Bay Window RHD camper rather than a Split. I've owned a few Split Buses and they have been far less practical as campers than bays.[/quote]
i have to agree with Rich, i have a RHD danbury bay, and its awesome for camping or hauling stuff around in! :thumbup:
Posted by: rudolf hucker - 15 February 2012 14:35:31
Here is another one.
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C278916
Posted by: pre67vw - 15 February 2012 14:56:23
[quote=rudolf hucker]Here is another one.
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C278916
[/quote]
Saw that this morning, very nice!
Anyone interested in buying a nice vintage volkswagen website for £20k?
:beer:
Posted by: AW - 15 February 2012 15:21:30
I used to have a bay 1600 it was a five birth but only luggage room for two people!
Took us to Le-Mans many times :d
Andy W
Posted by: Rattletrap - 16 February 2012 17:32:03
[quote=pre67vw]Saw that this morning, very nice!
Anyone interested in buying a nice vintage volkswagen website for £20k?
:beer: [/quote]
Yes, I'd say that this is worth taking a look at.:thumbup:
Posted by: kdf38 - 17 February 2012 04:21:34
Hahaahaahaaa. He said "reasonable" and camper on the same page!!!
I don't think there has been a reasonably priced Bus derivative for many years.
I did not think the Barndoor? 23 window was reasonable when it was offered to me for USD/$ 4000.- ... I thought "why the hell" would anyone want one of those. :? Well, if it had been all in one piece and running I may have bought it.
At least it needed a complete rebuild. I don't think it was rusty though. It ended up selling later to some unknown( to me anyway ) baseball player.
The same man had a "Tomato-ish" Red Porsche Continental I could have bought and didn't. :oops: and a 1947 MG TC or TD. :cry: Damn it...
I have a LONG list of "I Wish I had actually BOUGHT that car" cars...
Also on the list -
Heb 14-0323 back about July 1991/1992... Just needed to come up with a few thousand more to complete the deal.
A slightly rough Kübel in Baton Rouge, La. that had come from the Panama Canal Zone.
Mike
[quote=pre67vw]This isn't a wanted ad, although I'd love a nice camper. :wink: It seems like prices vary wildly, some dealers asking stupid money - others seem a good price but are immediately jumped on by flippers.
Also, is the market for them starting to die out? Seems like searching all the usual sources and there's not many ads about.[/quote]
Posted by: chrisbug91 - 17 February 2012 11:56:36
Look at the state of this :d
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volkswagen-Split-Screen-Camper-Van-Basket-Case-/250994313857?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a706d4a81
Posted by: 52deluxebug - 17 February 2012 13:10:34
:omg: :omg: :omg:
Its already at £2000 !
Surely there are better vans out there than that???
:omg: :omg: :omg:
Posted by: lifeintheslowlane - 19 February 2012 16:41:22
[quote=chrisbug91]Look at the state of this :d
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volkswagen-Split-Screen-Camper-Van-Basket-Case-/250994313857?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a706d4a81[/quote]
It went for £3300... I wonder who bought it.
Posted by: Rattletrap - 20 February 2012 09:50:34
[quote=lifeintheslowlane]It went for £3300... I wonder who bought it.
[/quote]
People outside the [i]Vintage Volkswagen[/i] scene are probably justified in thinking old Volkswagen enthusiasts are nuts when they see this sort of thing.:(
Posted by: rudolf hucker - 28 February 2012 16:12:56
[quote=rudolf hucker]Here's one!
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C281322
Rudy[/quote]
This bus sold at auction for £23,750.
