{"id":1595,"date":"2018-12-10T00:36:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:21:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T09:21:32","slug":"you-also-have-to-clean-the-extinct-volcanoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"“You also have to clean the extinct volcanoes…."},"content":{"rendered":"

…because you never know!”, the Little Prince said and this Samba project,<\/p>\n

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 is proofing that Saint-Exup\u00e9ry was right and still is. Whoever dumped the Samba in 1961, he wouldn\u00b4t ever have thought that this bus will survive him. And \u2013be honest- did you believe in May 2017 when we presented the remains of the Samba to the public that this bus will drive again just 12 months later? See\u2026. you never know!<\/p>\n

Same question today. Have a look on the remains of the Samba\u00b4s right door. Would you clean this extinct volcano? Come on, you would trash this poor piece of rotten metal after removing the inner door handle, wouldn\u00b4t you? I don\u00b4t blame you, I would do the same if it wasn\u00b4t the (at least) second oldest surviving Samba. But it is this certain piece of VW-history and it deserves to save every single surviving piece, no matter how \u201cdead\u201d it is.<\/p>\n

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for those of you who are not familiar with the inner structure of a Barndoor bus…. this is the inner piece of the right door after removing the door panel.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Same piece, seen from the other side…..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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and we got something left of the outer skin as well….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A little bit of the window frame<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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and that was a door hinge. Once.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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And now we get started! No kidding. We want to restore this door. Sure, it would be easier to buy a new one from Columbia, but that\u00b4s not the way of our project. I don\u00b4t want to bore the long time follower of the blog and repeat again the philosophy of the reconstruction. In case you wonder why we do it this way, just read some of the older posts\u2026.<\/p>\n

OK, ready to see another little miracle? We begin with worst pieces, the hinges. It was Philipp who had the idea to drop them into a caustic soda tub to remove the rust. Doesn\u00b4t this look like Frankenstein\u00b4s kitchen?<\/p>\n

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And here\u00b4s the result:<\/p>\n

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Believe it or not, the hinge is even moveable again!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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And now, Ladies and gentlemen, spot on to the breathtaking body work of Mr. Mark Spicer. There are no words needed, the pictures are just impressing enough and don\u00b4t need an explanation:<\/p>\n

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Just to avoid a misunderstanding: the new sections around the old surviving piece are 100% hand-crafted! Unbelievable, isn\u00b4t it?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The inner door release mechanism. Stuck since decades, but back to live again in 2018!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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That\u00b4s the way I want this Bus: showing honestly what we reconstructed and what\u00b4s still original material! You can clearly see it, can\u00b4t you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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We have even found more parts of the right door surviving! Luckily the Samba was hidden in a very lonely place of the Eifel\u00b4s nature, nobody seemed to have touched it since it was dumped. No vandalism, no smashed windows! All windows of the bus survived beside the rear one and one of the Plexiglas corners.  All of surviving ones are still the very original ones, showing the old, simple \u201cSEKURIT\u201d script!<\/p>\n

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Sure Mark will fit in the windows into the door and I am sure he will also fit in the outer skin as well. Maybe he will find also some original sealing wax red color under the ugly ivory respray, just the same way he did with the long side panel\u2026. Stay tuned and you\u00b4ll see!<\/p>\n

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Best regards from Bonn<\/p>\n

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Florian<\/p>\n

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…because you never know!”, the Little Prince said and this Samba project,   my dear VW-friends,    is proofing that Saint-Exup\u00e9ry was right and still is. Whoever dumped the Samba in 1961, he wouldn\u00b4t ever have thought that this bus will survive him. And \u2013be honest- did you believe in May 2017 when we presented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.entfallteiledienst.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}