Rust. I briefly owned a '63 Westy and discovered how little I knew about purchase inspections when months later I tried to jack it up and watched the jack point go right up through the paint-over-Bondo rocker panels. I'd been driving a parts bus and did not know it. 

Stephen

Mobile

> On Oct 12, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Eric Caron <ecaron1@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
>        Not a vanagon question but hoping I’m still in bounds for a non Friday.
> 
>        In a recent conversation I was told about a 1956 split bus sitting in a local garage.  I remember hearing about it’s arrival about 5 years ago.  It was gifted to a young woman by a friend in Arizona.  She drove it to VT.  It has only started a few times in the last few years.  I don’t know much else about it yet.  the family is interested in finding it a home and I volunteered to look at it.
> 
> So, this could also be a simple technology learning bus for me but it could also be a bit more connected to my  vanagon then the beetle around the corner.
> 
> Where might I get a crash course about 56 busses and what to look for in terms of body and drive train weak points or desirable characteristics? 
> 
>        Here’s to hoping I have found another worth while retirement project.
> 
> I know some of you folks still have a splitty  . and many others remember them well.
> 
> I was recently given some older VW parts and I kept a few that actually seemed like they would be useful on my vanagon.  Are there some clear connections between the splitty   and the vanagon?
> 
> I have a bracket I was told was to hold the battery and I suspect it might actually work in my vanagon as mine is missing.  I love finding the connections between the T1, T2, and T3.
> 
> 
> Eric Caron 
> 85 GL Auto Westfalia