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| Fish |
HelloG'day mates. New to your site, but not to buses. I have had many VWs through the past 30 years. This is what I have now. 63 and 64 panels.
Neither one is runnig at this time, but someday they will roll again. Just wanted to say hello. |
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| Brookie |
Hi Fish,
Welcome to the forum- have already posted welcome in Kombi Konnection News as you are our 200th Member. Your panels look great and we hope to hear of your progress on resto. --------------------------------------------------- |
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| VLKSWGN |
Welcome to KK, great pic of the panel vans!
Steve 
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| BJ |
Fish, your a lucky man with those two DDPanels
Welcome to the forum, as Brookie said you are 200th member - No prizes though! Cheers thanks for the pictures Mate, hava a look in our Splittie section, there are a couple of DDPanels in there too..... |
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| Kinga |
Hi Fish,
Welcome to the Kombi Konnection. |
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| 66split |
welcome to kk fish. luv those dd panels.
dave. |
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| Diddlie |
Hi and welcome, what's the weather doing over there? | ||
| Fish |
Thanks to all of you for the warm welcome. Speaking of warm .... it was 91F here yesterday. That's 33C for you all. | ||
| Piratekombi |
33 degrees... that would be winter in some places here!  (but not in Melbourne!)
I love those double doors! Great score! BTW, what is with the starry wheels on the left kombi...? I kinda like them! Have fun, and keep posting those pix! 
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| Fish |
Those are called "Jackman Stars". 
Back in the late 70's and early 80's there was a local company (in El Cajon, CA) called Jackman Wheels. They made lots of the very popular heavy duty steel 8 spoke wheels for the off-road crowd. http://images.google.com/url?q=ht...FQjCNHboMU2Xb1x9sSNJJdpwyYxusobEw They also made off-road lights, light bars, bumpers and other things for Baja Bugs, Jeeps and the bigger trucks. The "Jackman Star" was their signature product. Not as many of them made as the 8 spoke wheels. They made an all aluminum star for off-road racing. http://www.runtrod.com/gallery/d/12952-2/5JackmanAlumastar.jpg They even made spindle mounts for Dune Buggies. 
They have sense gone out of business and now there are many copies of the star on the market. Originals are easy to spot as they have a very distinctive "J" stamped on one of the star points. The J was their logo. 
Those caps are hard to find. No one wanted them as you would have to take the wheel off to take the drum off. I bought the four on the bus new (one owner, me) and the two on the trailer I got many years later and are some other manufacture. |
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