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08/01/2025

The cockpit inspiration post.

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07/01/2025

Quad Cam / Carrera / Fuhrmann ❤️

Enjoy.

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03/01/2025

***FOR SALE***

Back by popular demand, our monthly 'what you got for sale?' post.

The New Year is here and these early months are always a good time to buy.

So let's see whats up for grabs!

Please post below your classic VW's car/bus for sale photo ***WITH A PRICE*** Could be yours, you're friends or a bargain
you've seen.

Thank you for getting involved.

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01/01/2025

Hayburner Car Of The Year 2024

A huge thank you to everyone who voted.

The winners are:

3rd Place - Nico Bruck Barndoor Panel Van.

2nd Place - Paul Warman custom type34 Razor.

1st Place - Nils Komet Phillips Panel Van.

Wishing you all a very happy 2025.

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30/12/2024

***SOLD***

The March 1951 ‘Kempes’ Type’2 ‘no rear window’ Barndoor.

For most Vintage VW enthusiasts, this is a vehicle that doesn't really require any introduction. For those of you who don’t know this bus, it is one of the earliest examples of the Volkswagen Type2 in the world, rescued from a Swedish forest over a decade ago by Mark Spicer from Type29 Restorations. This was one of the first builds of this kind and its notorious history is well documented.

All those years ago this bus required very little welding leaving a considerable amount of original metal, paint and sign writing compared to your average 'flat pack' pre'55 bus build we see today.

Notice the solid rear window unique to pre April ’51 Type2's, this vehicle left Wolfsburg as a panel van and was professionally converted by a coach builder early on its life.

The bus is currently running a freshly built 1600tp engine (still under warranty) and fully rebuilt 1500 straight axle with a longer 4th gear perfect for motorway cruising. Disc brakes up front with remote servo so this bus stops on a dime. Lowered all round with original SA SprintStars.

If lowered isn’t your thing you will be glad to hear that period correct running gear, gearbox, wheels and a 30hp motor come along with the sale. If the asking price is met the bus can be put completely back to stock before it changes hands.

The bus has a colourful history and has had extensive features in Hayburner, Volksworld and theSamba.

Shipping worldwide can be arranged.

Now is the rare opportunity to own a rare piece of Volkswagen history.

Offers around £75,000

Please contact Craig on 07304056037 for more details.

30/12/2024

Thank you for the thousands of nominations for COTY 2024.
After a lengthy long winded process here are the final top 10 nominees as voted by you. So Please vote now!

VOTE IN THE COMMENTS BELOW BY NUMBER 1-10

1 - Paul Warman
Custom paint Type34

2 - Ben Laughton
15 Window Barndoor

3 - Simon Smith
Turkis 15 window

4 - Nils Komet
Phillips Panel Van

5 - Bram VanderMost
Type3 Notch Back

6 - Nico Bruck
Barndoor Panel Van

7 - Alun Tugwell
Custom Bay Window

8 - Davy Van Hecke
Strato Oval

9 - Paul Irving
Quality Sound Barndoor Samba

10 - Jelle Van Den Berg
Original paint Bay Window

This will also be running on the Ned_Faux Instagram page.

Thank you all for voting.

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28/12/2024

***FIRST NOMINATIONS COTY 2024***

This award is open to everyone so please get involved.

We run this every year for a chance to give well deserved recognition to those keeping the VW/Porsche community alive.

Please post a photo of your favourite vehicle in the comments below, it could be a friend's, a stranger's or your own. Then click the like button on your favourite vehicle in the comments. The top 3 vehicles will be announced on New Years Day and prizes will be given.

Thank you for your support throughout this year.

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23/12/2024

It’s our last day at Hayburner HQ before we close up for the Christmas period.

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has subscribed to the magazine, advertised, supported, contributed, put a sticker on their car or represented by wearing a T-shirt over the past year.

Also to everyone who got involved with our Christmas Ghia competition which has resulted in a big donation all ready to send over to Cancer Research. I’m personally very proud Hayburner, as a company, is in a position to be able to achieve this but we couldn't have done it without you so I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

So big love to you all and on behalf of everyone here at Hayburner Magazine I’d like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

I’ll leave you with a few of my personal favourite festive Volkswagen photos I’ve collected over the years.

Enjoy.

Ned

22/12/2024

LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!

Monday is our final day in the office, but don’t worry – we’ll still be posting out last-minute gifts! Orders over £45 get FREE DPD shipping, and everything else will go out via Royal Mail 24, so it should arrive in time for Christmas!

We also offer Gift Subscriptions with the option to include a personal card and message, making it an easy, thoughtful present.

Plus, all orders come with some extra freebies!

We would like to say thank you to everyone who has supported Hayburner Magazine throughout 2024, we couldn’t do it all without you. Wishing you all a very merry Christmas. Ned, Vic and the the team at Hayburner.

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22/12/2024

Christmas live draw 2024
Thank you everyone for entering and Merry Christmas!

19/12/2024

Halfway through 1938 the prototype had finally reached the form it would take for the next 50 or so years.

A batch of 30 W38 pre-production models were built at the new Porsche plant in Zuffenhausen using bodies supplied by Reutter.

Some of these 30 cars were fitted with the unique 'roll back roof' you see in these photos, unfortunately we don’t know exactly how many were made with this feature or exactly why it wasn't continued on production models (please enlighten us if you know)

On July 1938 the New York Times published an article regarding the ‘Peoples Car’ using photos of the W38 and ironically described it as the ‘Beetle’. This was the first time in history the car was publicly given this name even if it wasn't official.

These cars were designated for publicity use for the KDF Wagen saving scheme. But that is another story all together.

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17/12/2024

This morning we were sent a brilliant quality version (click/zoom on the image) of a photograph that has to be one of the best air-cooled Porsche/VW shots of all time, the busy street scene taken at a Porsche 356 meet in L**htal Strasse, L**h, Austria.

The other legendary photograph of the skier jumping the 356 that many will already know. We have on good authority that it was also taken in L**h, Austria at the same time.

Looking at the first photo in the office we date it to around 1963 But would love to know more information regarding this event, with such a turn out there must be more surviving images out there, it would be great to know/see more about it.

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16/12/2024

Porsche's technical team developed various concepts for the first prototypes, all air-cooled: a twin cylinder, twin piston two-stroke, a horizontally opposed two-stroke, a similar four-stoke unit and then the final 'flat four' four stroke motor.

None of the of the earlier designs made the cut. The power output from the four-stroke flat twin was too low and the twin-piston two-stroke was too unreliable. Although Ferdinand favoured the twin motors (mainly for cost reasons) the testing showed that the flat four won in every way.

The team were known to mockingly call it the 'Rolls-Royce' option because of it's extra expense.

1. D60 prototype Sept 1935 2 cylinder.
2. A60 first prototype double piston 2 cylinder.
3. C60 prototype 2 cylinder.
4. The flat 4 style we all know and love as tested in the V3 prototype.

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14/12/2024

Until December 23rd we are offering FREE shipping on all orders over £45 and, because it’s the season of giving, we’ll toss in some extra Hayburner surprises and offer a free upgrade to 1st Class postage on everything else! 🎁

We have loads of new stuff on the website including a great Christmas bundle deal.

It’s the perfect gift for the VW enthusiast in your life—or why not treat yourself this Christmas?

Thank you all for supporting Hayburner Magazine and keeping us busy this Christmas.

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13/12/2024

For the BMX people.

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10/12/2024

The EA489 ‘Basistransporter’

A weird one, probably the most basic and aesthetically displeasing vehicle Volkswagen ever brought to the market.

Similar to a Tempo Matador they were built using primitive ladder chassis with torsion bar front suspension and a leaf-sprung rear beam axle. The 1584cc flat-four engine was mounted under the cab putting out 44-50bhp with a 55mph top speed. No curves at all, even the wheel arches were straight-edged, while all the glass was completely flat. The Basistransporter was a pick-up, but different bodies could be fitted, including vans, minibuses, campers and ambulances.

Volkswagen’s Hannover plant was responsible for turning out EA489s from 1975, alongside their more sophisticated Type2. Around 2600 appeared up until 1979, although most were in kit form; few were actually built in their entirety in Germany.

First exports were to Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey and Mexico, mainly for evaluation. Around 200 went to Africa, sent there by Finland as part of foreign aid packages. After trials there was little interest from Australia and NZ However, the Philippines, Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico and Pakistan were more keen using local names such as ‘Mitra’ for Indonesia, Trakbayan for the Phillipines and just EA489 in Turkey.

Turkey and Indonesia used the front of a bay window Type 2 as a cab and added a small grille to the nose to sit on the EA489 Chassis.

It was Mexico that really embraced the Basistransporter. It even put together its own complete versions, with Mexican-built chassis rather than Hannover’s kit one, and made about 3600 vehicles up until 1979.

Anyone own one? We’d love to hear from you.

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09/12/2024

***50% OF ALL PROFITS MADE FROM THIS KARMANN GHIA WILL BE GOING TO CANCER RESEARCH!***

Yes you did read that right, being the season of good will we have made the decision to stick with the Hayburner ethos and donate half of our profits for this car to a charity that’s close to our hearts.

So… we went pretty big last Christmas and we wanted to the same again this year. We are back with one last competition of the year and with this absolutely gem of a Karmann Ghia. It's a 1964 California import and has been well kept and pampered over the years, even treated to a new body shell so this car is 100% solid as a rock and the list of new parts it has had over the last year is as long as your arm.

A bit about The Giving Ghia - sitting on a 6” Eva Resto fully adjustable beam with dropped spindles and adjustable spring plates, tucking those wide 5 staggered steels with brand new tyres in beautifully. But this car isn't all stance, it has great paint and an interior to match. Head over to the main site for the full run down of this great car. This time around because of the Christmas break we have a much shorter competition length too, so don't miss out!

By now you probably know how we do things but if you are new here, we do a bunch of other smaller prizes that we hand select and think that you will love, and of course this time is no exception. We have a vintage speed style steering wheel, a brand new set of wheels or £500, a Bug-Tech shifter and more. Also this time there is £500 in website credit up for grabs too! So get yourself over to Hayburner Competitions now!

This competition ends on Sunday the 22nd of December at 12pm Midday and will be drawn live from our socials at 1pm that very same afternoon. Don’t miss your chance of this awesome car and to do some good at the same time!

Just click here to win - https://hayburnercompetitions.co.uk

Good Luck!

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Christmas live draw 2024 Thank you everyone for entering and Merry Christmas!

** WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS (NOODLES) ** The last week is upon us and we are excited as ever for someone to be in the chance of owning this Porsche! And this isn’t just any Porsche—it’s part of the Type 2 Detectives Revival Series on YouTube, and these guys have made an incredible ride - THAT YOU COULD WIN! 🙌 Lovingly cared for by one family for over a decade before resting in storage, this 1982 beauty has been brought back to life with a full mechanical overhaul. It has been lowered on Bilstein coilovers and added period-perfect Porsche Le Mans wheels for that ultimate classic look and drive. Being a 1982 model, this Porsche is a certified classic, so is tax and mot exempt but T2D have put it through an MOT just to be sure. Now this classic could be yours for just a fiver, capped to 6,000 and will draw no matter what! This competition will close at 12 o’clock (midday) on the 30th of September and will be drawn that very afternoon. Winners will be first notified by a phone call from ourselves. GOOD LUCK! Just click here - https://hayburnercompetitions.co.uk