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Hi guys, now I found some time to introduce me and mainly my earlybay to you.
Me, my family and our Westy "Rantanplan" (also known as "Rin Tin Can" and "Bushwack" in "Lucky Luke") live in Bavaria.
Rantanplan is a L620 savannah beige 5/1968 Westfalia SO62, which I found 1996 in my hometown Regenburg at a car dealer. The price for the Westy was 2800 DM, that is appr. 1400 EURO or 1200 pound! That were lucky days to buy busses!
But at this time I did not even have that money to buy it. So the bus stood more than a half year at the dealer. I saved every cent (and that is not so easy if you are young and thirsty!) and in december 1996 I bought Rantanplan!
Nobody wanted the have "such an old stinky bus that takes so much petrol", as the cardealer told me.
This is how Rantanplan looked like when i bought it:
I drove the Westy in this "interesting" colour and with the flower-curtains until spring 2003. "NO, I am NOT a Hippy" was the answer i gave sooooo many times during this years!
Then we were sandblasting some watergates and buoys in my job, and I suddenly knew what to do. The bad points of the bus have been sandblasted and primered.
Then it was time to put the original L620 savannah beige on it. No show and shine painting, but ok for driving and using the Westy as campmobile (what it is!).
This is how Rantanplan looked like when he was new painted and put together in autumn 2003.
The next years Rantanplan was used as a daily driver and to travel. I changed some little things, for excemple the rearlights and the blinker, bought an original earlybay Westfalia tent for 100 EURO and so on...
2005 I installed some vintage oldspeed parts like 2 solex carburetors, manifolds ans aircleaners from TDE. Theo Decker from Essen was the "god of speed" in the 60ies here in germany.
In 2006 Rantanplan got new TMI seat and door covers and a Isabella tent. I also moved from Regensburg to Marktbreit near Wuerzburg, and of course I used the SO62 and my 1958 Westfalia trailer for moving!
At the moment we are building a new "oldspeed" engine with some more original TDE parts, but that is an other story. The Mooneyes instruments are already waiting...
I know, many pictures and a long story (btw sorry for my bad english), but all this happend in more than 13 years!
If you want to see more pictures from my cars, trailer etc. visit my homepage (sorry, only german language!) and meet the Oldvolks Racing Team. (http://www.oldvolks.de" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false
Prost (cheers) from Bavaria!
Stefan
Me, my family and our Westy "Rantanplan" (also known as "Rin Tin Can" and "Bushwack" in "Lucky Luke") live in Bavaria.
Rantanplan is a L620 savannah beige 5/1968 Westfalia SO62, which I found 1996 in my hometown Regenburg at a car dealer. The price for the Westy was 2800 DM, that is appr. 1400 EURO or 1200 pound! That were lucky days to buy busses!
But at this time I did not even have that money to buy it. So the bus stood more than a half year at the dealer. I saved every cent (and that is not so easy if you are young and thirsty!) and in december 1996 I bought Rantanplan!
Nobody wanted the have "such an old stinky bus that takes so much petrol", as the cardealer told me.
This is how Rantanplan looked like when i bought it:
I drove the Westy in this "interesting" colour and with the flower-curtains until spring 2003. "NO, I am NOT a Hippy" was the answer i gave sooooo many times during this years!
Then we were sandblasting some watergates and buoys in my job, and I suddenly knew what to do. The bad points of the bus have been sandblasted and primered.
Then it was time to put the original L620 savannah beige on it. No show and shine painting, but ok for driving and using the Westy as campmobile (what it is!).
This is how Rantanplan looked like when he was new painted and put together in autumn 2003.
The next years Rantanplan was used as a daily driver and to travel. I changed some little things, for excemple the rearlights and the blinker, bought an original earlybay Westfalia tent for 100 EURO and so on...
2005 I installed some vintage oldspeed parts like 2 solex carburetors, manifolds ans aircleaners from TDE. Theo Decker from Essen was the "god of speed" in the 60ies here in germany.
In 2006 Rantanplan got new TMI seat and door covers and a Isabella tent. I also moved from Regensburg to Marktbreit near Wuerzburg, and of course I used the SO62 and my 1958 Westfalia trailer for moving!
At the moment we are building a new "oldspeed" engine with some more original TDE parts, but that is an other story. The Mooneyes instruments are already waiting...
I know, many pictures and a long story (btw sorry for my bad english), but all this happend in more than 13 years!
If you want to see more pictures from my cars, trailer etc. visit my homepage (sorry, only german language!) and meet the Oldvolks Racing Team. (http://www.oldvolks.de" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false
Prost (cheers) from Bavaria!
Stefan