1966 Deluxe

Was able to get out today and shoot a few pics. I picked up this 66 Deluxe the day after the Reynolds show. It is a former show/magazine Bus, was in Vw Trends, July 1990 issue. It was in storage from 92 - 06 and only driven a few times from 06 to 09. It needed a good going over and a few minor things done and there were some electrical issues to sort out, (thanks Tronview, now I owe ya twice!!)
I think the replacement of the headlight switch will correct the remaining electrical problems (thanks Splitties, call me or send your#)
Anyway the plan right now is to just roll it as is and do a few upgrades next fall/winter.

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im jealous

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that bus is sweet!

They have a few plates on ebay if you want one and don't have one.

Item number: 220384264307
Item number: 400040217075

Nice bus man.

71_georgia_beetle wrote:They have a few plates on ebay if you want one and don't have one.

Item number: 220384264307
Item number: 400040217075

Yeah, the other day when I picked up the tag I was thinking about getting a YOM tag. Do you know if there are extra charges to get one? Honestly tho, this thing has been throwing me some many curveballs, tags are the least of my worries.
Still gonna try to have it ready by the 17th if possible!!

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Awesome I hope you do have it ready. I want to see it!

DiggerD wrote:

71_georgia_beetle wrote:They have a few plates on ebay if you want one and don't have one.

Item number: 220384264307
Item number: 400040217075

Yeah, the other day when I picked up the tag I was thinking about getting a YOM tag. Do you know if there are extra charges to get one? Honestly tho, this thing has been throwing me some many curveballs, tags are the least of my worries.
Still gonna try to have it ready by the 17th if possible!!

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There is no charge to register a vintage tag.

A nice pic taken at YUB:


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A pic that Tronview tweaked:

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That is one NICE BUS!

Freakin' Sweet! Schwing!

Wow nice!! Where did you find that one?
I've been scouring the net to find any pics/info on it. I have been trying to put a documented history of it together, and I didn't have that pic!!

It was on the samba under readers rides.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3292388&highlight=#3292388

HiD headlights installed:

New pic, removed all the dark window tint. (a 13 + hour ordeal) I like it tho, makes backing up a night almost an enjoyable experience. Also this pic has the roof rack that I picked up at Bulli Brigade in it.

Dude it looks Badass for real now. Just got to buy alot of windex and paper towels. 13 hours to remove the tint, 1 hour to clean the windows

56HAVOC wrote:Dude it looks Badass for real now. Just got to buy alot of windex and paper towels. 13 hours to remove the tint, 1 hour to clean the windows

Yep, I went thru 2 bottles of glass cleaner, about 7 single edge razor blades, and a roll and a half of paper towels, but I think it was worth it. There was actually two layers of tint on there.

Well it's a good look, but now everyone can see the hula girl dance on the dash lol !!!!

Recently located an amazing set of nearly NOS front walk-thru seats. Today I removed the scat pro-car buckets and was happy to find almost all the original mounting brackets still intact!! Trimed the carpet to fit around the original mounts and the new,old seats slid in lika a charm! These seats were found in the rafters of an old junkyard storage building and appear to have only been used very briefly.







All I am missing is the L shaped bracket that goes behind the passenger seat to support the right corner of the seat back. I will try to find an original one if possible, but it doesn't look like it would be very hard to fabricate one that was pretty close. This is the missing piece, this one is the driver side, which mine is missing also. The drivers side is not as critical as the passenger as the driver seat is one piece and doesn't need the extra support. (I will get/make one for this side as well for originality's sake).

*** Update: I did some more research and the drivers side L bracket would be for the earlier models. Since mine has a one piece adjustable drivers seat, there was not a bracket on that side. Now I only have to find or make one instead of two...

i like what your doing with it- looking nice!

Awesome! Looks great.

What a score!

It's great that the seats matched your interior

Looks good!

Yeah the seat color looks pretty good with the existing interior. It would be a shame to recover them after surviving in this condition for so long. Here is a pic of the bottoms before a little clean up:

Digger, whats the plans for the old scat seats?