Sundial is the company that installed the camper kit that isn't included in that price. It's also a panel, not a kombi. That motor runs great without the vacuum advance hooked up too.....

Actually it looks like a bondoooood kombi. No vents in the back, and bond'od windows

Sundial, KamperKit, and RoadRunner were campers available through dealerships that were not westfalias. From about 58 on, Vw's went to distributors then dealerships, instead of straight to the dealership. Westy's were super popular but the distributor could not just order 100 westys for his 6 dealers. He had to order 20 westys, 20 deluxes, and 20 commercials (I'm summarizing) so this left a plethora of commercials ( panels and kombi's)

An enterprising family decided to buy up the commercials at a discount, outfit them with camper kits, and sell to the dealers that couldn't get enough westys to supply the demand. Same family, different branches, owned the major non-westy companies. For the most part they are the same patterns, with a few differences between them

Riviera was almost always in the pnw, Washington and Oregon. Sundial was northern Cali, KamperKit was so cal, road runner was a little further east. Almost every sundial is a San Francisco or Long Beach delivery.

A kombi of these brands is way more desirable. I had one I bought for like $800 drove around for a year and sold for $8k. In the 90's.



This was my 66 kombi based walk through sundial. My first bus. My friend had a pearl white 66 KamperKit. Identical except his interior was teal, mine was red. His wood paneling was darker than mine.

If its complete, worth more than a kombi in the same condition. Not complete, worth the same as a kombi in that condition.


I know nick loves my life story and history lessons, so I made it extra long in case he is reading. It took me a long time to research all of that when I had mine, so I thought I would share what I found. There are still plans out there today to remake the kit, someone found the first guy and the first plans and scanned them. They are actually more comfortable than a real split westy.

Looks like a pretty clean oval on Oldbug.com.

http://www.oldbug.com/bj55oval.htm

That battery shot looks like my car.

That's a nice car. Too bad it doesn't have the H apron, that's the only major flaw I see. The price seems pretty decent though.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/ ... id=1449223

Wasn't this a dLk bug? Maybe Jason's if memory servers correct. Looks like it can be brought back into the family.

Yes it was mine for a short while, but never a part of DLK, I hang out often with the DLK guys but I am not a club member

Sweet ride nonetheless.

I never did like club initiations: paddles and sweaty dudes is not my thing.

Did you get another project? (Also, we met at Dubsplash. I was peddling the black 1960 with sick patina.)

We don't have initiations. Does mike still have the ratrod?

My old car sold it 6-7 years ago if my memory serves me right. They changed a few little things such as my black engine tins for chrome, stock steering wheel for this ugly one, the 48idas I had on it for these 44s. I bought this car bone stock with white walls and a 40 horse and slammed it with fuch replicas narrowed beam and put a motor and trans in it that would run. Sold it on eBay in less than 8 hrs of posting it. Cool car.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/ ... id=1459775