Voitures Anciennes
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RobertArthur
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RobertArthur
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Voitures Anciennes
And again the famous VW T1, now the late fifties 'Carlux' version. How to discover the most beautiful parts of Switzerland in a panorama coach. And many years later, in 2008, it is again time for a discovery. It has been an almost ancient Greek Epos, this restoration project. Just as Odysseus eventually returned to Ithaca after many wanderings and misfortunes, occasionally comforted by beautiful ladies, a group of seven friends managed to turn this wreck they found at a scrapyard in Switzerland into something beautiful. What you need are restoration skills, cunning, perseverance and perhaps the support of the goddess Athena. And above all, follow your dreams. Just persevere and one day you will reach your ultimate goal.
And yes, a VW restoration story from Germany.
And yes, a VW restoration story from Germany.
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curtis
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RobertArthur
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Voitures Anciennes
Mass production of these special coaches? No, not at all.
Act One: St. Gallen (Switzerland), around 1959. Sprenger, a company that organises coach trips, is looking for panoramic coaches that are narrow enough for winding mountain roads – or so the story goes. How many Carlux coaches were there? Ernst Auwärter mentioned 24.
Act Two: one day, a sheet of drawings with measurements for just such a VW T1 arrives at Ernst Auwärter Karosserie- und Fahrzeugbau KG in Stuttgart-Möhringen (Germany)– it says ‘VW Luxus-Car’ and bears the names of Auwärter and Sprenger.
I seem to remember seeing one during a day trip by coach, not this one, with my parents in the Bernese Oberland in the early 1960s, which included the famous Grimsel Pass. With up to nine people on board, those little, underpowered Carlux coaches rolled through the Swiss countryside with 34 horsepower. And the steep mountain passes? I imagine second and first gear will have been working hard. More than enough time to look around and up and take some photos. But not too many, very expensive (Kodak, Ilford, Agfa).
In short, you can count yourself lucky if you've ever seen one in real life.
How many survivors today? Only three.....
Act One: St. Gallen (Switzerland), around 1959. Sprenger, a company that organises coach trips, is looking for panoramic coaches that are narrow enough for winding mountain roads – or so the story goes. How many Carlux coaches were there? Ernst Auwärter mentioned 24.
Act Two: one day, a sheet of drawings with measurements for just such a VW T1 arrives at Ernst Auwärter Karosserie- und Fahrzeugbau KG in Stuttgart-Möhringen (Germany)– it says ‘VW Luxus-Car’ and bears the names of Auwärter and Sprenger.
I seem to remember seeing one during a day trip by coach, not this one, with my parents in the Bernese Oberland in the early 1960s, which included the famous Grimsel Pass. With up to nine people on board, those little, underpowered Carlux coaches rolled through the Swiss countryside with 34 horsepower. And the steep mountain passes? I imagine second and first gear will have been working hard. More than enough time to look around and up and take some photos. But not too many, very expensive (Kodak, Ilford, Agfa).
In short, you can count yourself lucky if you've ever seen one in real life.
How many survivors today? Only three.....