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Hi all - I purchased my first split, a 67 Bus a little while ago and am keen on becoming involved and part of the split community. My bus had been sitting out in the weather for a few years, like about 15 or so and has a nice moss covered rusty roof, although no holes. I am in the early process of stripping it down to its shell so I can throw it into the rotisserie and start from scratch to bring it back to life. As soon as I work out how to add pics etc, I'll start posting some as I progress through the restore. Looking forward to meeting new people and making new friendships.

Nice one mate, welcome to DSK.

Welcome to DSK,

Looking forward to seeing pics, and the resto unfold

Hey. Where in Canberra are you?

Struth...another Canberra split ?

Welcome aboard to another '67 owner!

Where about's in Canberra am I? - I'm in Canberra's most elite suburb, Queanbeyan, which is actually closer to Canberra than most Canberra suburbs. I put down Canberra, cause most people know where that is. So, do any of the Canberra members meet up at all for a coffee, or a beer or to check out each others splits? Would be more than keen to do so.

Yeah there are a few vw peeps meeting for coffee this Saturday 2nd at buzz cafe in Fyshwick, there is a post on here somewhere??
I wont be there due to work.

Please tell me you are leaving the moss covered roof

ozjeff - I'm torn! Full resto or the rat look, I'm still undecided. When I first bought it, I swore I would leave it as is and NOT ever wash it, that I would replace a few rusty bits and pieces around the bottom and get it registered. Well now I'm sorta leaning the full resto way, but I don't wanna wait the couple of years that it will take me. With some rust repairs for rego I could be on the road in a couple of months I guess. Faaaark, decisions, decisions.

I have a full resto and rat split, the full resto sits in the garage and rarely gets driven, the rat is my daily driver, probably would never do a full shiny resto again unless the bus had OG paint already stripped. Leave the outside rat and do a nice interior, best of both worlds. You will always be scared to park your car places if you do a full resto

keep it og and only replace the metal needed , then you can use and abuse it without a care ...theres plenty of restored busses out there and not enough with battle scars and history ..welcome and post pics ..jeff just fitted a big window to his shed so he can stare at his bus while dinking beer without touching it haha