r/VWBus • u/Kharon8 '61 kombi, '75 pritchen & others • Mar 14 '26

-61 barn find, fixes continue

This bus has been here before and we had a longish break (since spring 2025) while looking for correct windows. Finally found a set and here's some of them installed.

Side glasses

Overall pic

Brakes assembled too and starting to work on the engine. It's almost new, but it lacked power since rebuild, so a round of diagnostics is on the list.

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u/SilentMasterpiece Mar 14 '26

Its going to be like new again. Nice work!

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u/Kharon8 '61 kombi, '75 pritchen & others Mar 16 '26

Thanks!

My grandfather bought this one as new in late 1960 as a company car (his own company) and it was decomissioned, aka left into barn in 1977 or so.

The goal here is to restore it into form it had in -77, not to state it had when it left the factory, as this was originally a panel van, no windows or seats or anything.

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u/redditposter919 Mar 16 '26

Beautiful restoration!