So I saw this in Peru...

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So I saw this in Peru...

Post by Xelmon » Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:32 pm

And saw this thing close to where I was staying.

It also had tomb-stone tail lights, rear quarter glasses in the corners, and a narrow back door.

Talk about franken-bus!

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Re: So I saw this in Peru...

Post by wcfvw69 » Thu Sep 24, 2015 1:26 pm

The front looks Bay and the rear looks split screen.. WTF?? :compress:
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Re: So I saw this in Peru...

Post by ruckman101 » Thu Sep 24, 2015 2:46 pm

They are out there. I saw one when we were in Cusco this past May, and when we were in southern Mexico a few years back. I suspect it's Brazillian in origin, but that's all I know.

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Post by tristessa » Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:50 pm

I saw one like that at the Woodburn VW show & swap earlier this year.

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Re: So I saw this in Peru...

Post by Xelmon » Fri Sep 25, 2015 11:45 am

It's a fairly crazy looking machine.

By Tris's input, apparently it's basically a splitty. Can't imagine how much it's worth in the states.

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Re: So I saw this in Peru...

Post by Amskeptic » Sat Sep 26, 2015 7:17 am

Xelmon wrote:It's a fairly crazy looking machine.

By Tris's input, apparently it's basically a splitty. Can't imagine how much it's worth in the states.
VW went savagely cheap in the southern hemisphere. The frankenbus there was an actual new product from Volkswagen with swing axles and king pin front suspension and a late model nose grafted on. They doled out IRS in 1990 or so. The ad copy was atrocious, sort of like General Motors selling a 2015 Peruvian Cadillac STS with "new HYDRAULIC drum brakes working on ALL four wheels!"
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Re: So I saw this in Peru...

Post by yondermtn » Tue Sep 29, 2015 12:20 pm

It would seem that cooling would be affected by the design change of the air intakes.
At some point I think these became water-cooled but this one appears to be air-cooled. Type I engine?
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Re: So I saw this in Peru...

Post by tristessa » Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:58 pm

Type 1 engine, yes. Watercooled didn't happen until later, first in the Mexican market from 1988-2001ish, then the Brazilian market in 2005 .. but it was the full-blown Bay that got the radiator, not the Bay-nosed Splitty that Xelmon saw in Peru...
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