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if you checked out the Samba in Amersfoort you might know it. There is no mastercylinder mounted yet. We were in a real hurry to get the baby kind of drivable for the show anyway that we decided it\u00b4s OK to rely on the handbrake only, I was not in the mood to drive the fragile Frankenstein at a speed higher then 10mph.<\/p>\n

Beside the lack of time, we didn\u00b4t had the mounting bracket for the master at hand.The bracket you can see in the following picture, taken from the 1953 workshop manual:<\/p>\n

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When the Samba was found the original master was still present, but it was stuck in the mud, felt off from the chassis decades ago, just have a look.<\/p>\n

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Check out the following pictures. They proof that there is a very little piece of the bracket still screwed to the master, but that\u00b4s all. It\u00b4s not enough to rebuild or reconstruct it, this one does not even give an idea how the bracket has to look like.<\/p>\n

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So, what to do? The master we can replace by a VEWIB-item in case it\u00b4s not possible to save it, but the bracket we need to find elsewhere, cause it\u00b4s not an item you can find in any VW parts shop. But I had an idea\u2026<\/p>\n

It was in 1988 when my close school buddy Christian Kuhlmann told me: \u201cHey, Florian, I found this super old bus in the woods near my village. It still has its semaphores, didn\u00b4t you say you need a set of semaphores for your \u00b458 bug?\u201d<\/p>\n

So I checked this Bus in the woods, not even 10 kilometers away from my parent\u00b4s home. It was a 1956 deluxe and indeed it still had its semaphores. I pulled also the engine and the gearbox, the other parts seemed to me not worth saving. Today I would save the entire Bus, no doubt, it wasn\u00b4t too bad, but in 1988 there were a lot of VWs in the local woods that were much more of my interest.  Several ovals, a split bug, even a 1943 KdF (I decided this was too rotten to save, can\u00b4t believe today\u2026.). If you wanted a nice \u00b456 bus in the 80s you just had to go over to the next fire brigade asking them to sell their 8.000 km bus for some hundred Deutsch Marks and that was the deal, no kidding. A \u00b456 bus wreck in the woods was\u2026.well, just a piece of junk!<\/p>\n

Anyway I remembered this certain Bus and wondered if it was still in the woods and if it still got the mastercylinder bracket\u2026. So, I drove there and my teenage pupils shot this funny video about it:<\/p>\n

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