{"id":169,"date":"2013-06-11T22:15:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2013-11-26T22:39:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T22:39:38","slug":"the-ultimate-splitscreen-restoration-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/the-ultimate-splitscreen-restoration-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Splitscreen Restoration Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month we heard about a possibly the craziest Splitscreen restroration project for sale on eBay in Koblenz, Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqRlgFF-f1m7BRnRpqdk4Q60_12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-172\" alt=\"$(KGrHqR,!lgFF-,f1)m7BRnRpqdk4Q~~60_12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqRlgFF-f1m7BRnRpqdk4Q60_12-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqRlgFF-f1m7BRnRpqdk4Q60_12-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqRlgFF-f1m7BRnRpqdk4Q60_12.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The description was as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em>Early VW Bus T1 Barndoor &#8211; A ruin!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Built between `51 and` 53 &#8211; With seating, probably a Fensterbus.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>With all the bodywork that has already been lost, the chassis number was probably there somewhere.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Even the VW logo is no longer there to find &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Happy bidding!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqVrkFGVjs5EyBRnRLDVf5w60_12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" alt=\"$(KGrHqV,!rkFGVj,s5EyBRnRLDVf5w~~60_12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqVrkFGVjs5EyBRnRLDVf5w60_12-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqVrkFGVjs5EyBRnRLDVf5w60_12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqVrkFGVjs5EyBRnRLDVf5w60_12.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqJrFGT-tibZUBRnRppN4TQ60_12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-171\" alt=\"$(KGrHqJ,!r!FGT-tibZUBRnRppN4TQ~~60_12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqJrFGT-tibZUBRnRppN4TQ60_12-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqJrFGT-tibZUBRnRppN4TQ60_12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/KGrHqJrFGT-tibZUBRnRppN4TQ60_12.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They later stated that &#8220;there are no vehicle documents &#8221; &#8211; \u00a0you dont say!<\/p>\n<p>Due to some lettering on the door they believe it was \u00a0probably a TV \/ electronics business from this region that owned the bus. Due to the fact that the Splitscreen was buried in wet soil it has degraded very badly. The VIN number cannot be found or any of the original name plates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/T2eC16ZyUE9s6NGScBRpOdKhrg60_12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-173\" alt=\"$T2eC16Z,!yUE9s6NG)ScBRpOdKh!rg~~60_12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/T2eC16ZyUE9s6NGScBRpOdKhrg60_12-300x228.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/T2eC16ZyUE9s6NGScBRpOdKhrg60_12-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/T2eC16ZyUE9s6NGScBRpOdKhrg60_12.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It eventually sold for 323.00 EUROS!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Now we love a restoration project but even we wouldn&#8217;t know where to start on this one as that is a huge undertaking to bring this splity back to life! Not sure there would be much left after the first acid dip&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month we heard about a possibly the craziest Splitscreen restroration project for sale on eBay in Koblenz, Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vwcamperhire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}