![]() ![]() This will be important if you want to transport your children. Many modern campervan conversions comply with better safety laws concerning seatbelt anchorage points and how a rock-and-roll bed is fitted. Alternatively, buying a Split Screen with a modern, but period-looking interior conversion for camping is a better solution for family holidays, and there are numerous specialists who can help. Finding an original conversion and sourcing any parts that need to be replaced may be difficult. If you want a Split Screen as a campervan, then many were converted during the Fifties and Sixties by aftermarket specialists such as Westfalia, Dormobile and Devon. Providing you take your time, stopping every couple of hours to allow the engine to cool and accepting that a cruising speed of 50mph is acceptable, then a family holiday or trip to a show is the making of priceless memories. It’s highly likely that you won’t want to drive a Split Screen every day, but perhaps drive it to shows and on holidays, in which case, the novelty value has less chance of wearing off. However, there are numerous modifications that can help to update a Split Screen and make it more driveable without spoiling its originality. Split Screens are trendy, but would you like to drive one every day? Probably not, especially if it is standard specification because the performance of the engine will feel slow, and the brakes are not comparable to a modern vehicle. Should you find a bargain deal, it’s worthwhile checking whether it is an original German bus or a later Brazilian or S.A version - the VW chassis number will help to determine this. However, these later Split Screens (often called Fleetlines) are made from a mixture of different model year parts and generally command less when up for sale. Whilst T2 Split production in Germany officially ended in 1967, when it was replaced by the Type 2 Bay Window, manufacturing continued in Brazil and South Africa (as CKD kits) well into the seventies. Prices for these vehicles are considerably higher, and whilst they share the same shadow not all the parts cross over. ![]() These Barndoor models can also be easily identified from the front, by their lack of 'peek' over the front windscreens. But this is not, as one might expect in reference to the double side loading doors, but to the double height engine lid at the rear of the vehicle. However further adding to the confusion, the first iteration of the VW 'twin screen' delivery vehicle, or indeed leisure vehicle, built between 1950-55 is now referred to as a 'Barndoor' model. ![]() These are now more commonly referred to as the 'T2 Split' 'Split Screens' or 'Splittys' on account of the windscreen being split into two halves. Confusingly known as both the T1 (Transporter 1) or the Type 2 (as it followed the Type 1, the model designation for the Beetle) Volkswagen of Germany manufactured a range of models between 1950-67 with commercial vehicle roots a Microbus with 13-23 windows, a panel van, and single and double cab pick-up. ![]()
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