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1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath
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A rip-off of the VW bus. It had a 2-cylinder engine mounted under the front seat. The floor was wood, and the body behind the cab was aluminum.
 2005-05-29
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07/25/09 Pive In 1965 I acquired a cherry blown up '59 Goliath in Berkely CA at a foreign auto wrecker. I had a spare Olds engine/hydro out of my last race car that I transplanted in the rear of the Goliath; with the ladder frame and T&G flooring it was a piece o' cake to do the install. The Olds crossmember was used between the frame rails with about a 10" drop and a '56 Ford radiator fit between the frame rails, too. A '53 Olds rear end practically bolted up to the rear leaf springs. The driveshaft was about 8" long! With a 4.30 screw and the 3000 stall B&M torus it left hard and would just barely hike the left front. Needless to say, it blew a lot of minds! The bummer? I don't have one damn picture!

Jim Piver
01/17/06 alex haha thats freakin awsome it looks almost just like a vw bus.
12/16/05 Jerry Looks alot like one my family had in the late '50s and early '60s. Ours was a lot shinier...but then again, it was also 45 years newer! Ours didn't have the extra windows, tho.

I've often thought it would be fun to get another one and transplant a modern drive train into it. That little 2 cylinder 2 stroke engine wasn't robust enough to stand up to southern California driving! When I was a teenager, I thought a beefed up Olds Toronado or Cad Eldo engine + transaxle would be fun....nowadays maybe a Prius...perhaps a Suburu drive train might just drop in with only a little work...Hope someone bought this one and is having fun with it!
11/19/05 carlos hoffman is this goliath microbus for sale?, thanks
11/18/05 CARLOS HOFFMAN Is the goliath for sale?
05/29/05 FRED THIS GOLIATH IS UNBELIEVEABLE! I THOUGHT I'D SEEN EVERYTHING! I'M TOTALLY AMAZED---YET SOMEHOW DUMBFOUNDED! PLEASE---YOU HAVE TO POST MORE INFO ON THIS STRANGE VEHICLE! THANKS!
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1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath
1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath 1957 Goliath
Thom
A rip-off of the VW bus. It had a 2-cylinder engine mounted under the front seat. The floor was wood, and the body behind the cab was aluminum.
 2005-05-29
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03/13/09 robert The constant reference to these early "lechttransporter" vans as a VW reference is really juvenile and takes away form the actual historical fact which is that Lechttransporters were a common class of vehicle in Europe from the 1930's on..way before VW did anthing. They were one of many German companies that built lightweight economical vehicles for moving goods..nothing more or less than that.
01/28/08 Ryan Does anyone know who currently owns this 57 Goliath? Thanks
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fs
Goliath truck Not running Needs home
Poor baby! :)
[More pics at the URL]
 2002-07-26 (77.71k)
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Goliath truck Not running Needs home
Not exactly a clone since this has a watercooled front engine. so what was the first yr of mfr of VW "buses"?
 2002-07-26 (113.04k)
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09/16/02   I Believe it to be 1949
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L'Universelle L'Universelle
david benardo

What a strange weekend. First off; I saw the infamous May 72 issue of nation geographic just sitting on top of a pile of old magazines for sale at the library...10 cents! Then I picked up a old issue of "special interest autos" and found a big article on the "L'Universelle" In which they mentioned taking all the good stuff from the VW Transporter and GMC Carryalls and coming up with something which would cost more than a Cadillac.. it never made it past the "concept" stage. These guys new how to make a "production" "slammed" bus in 1955! And check out the cool air intake built in the roof. And then Driving around my own little town of Benicia CA I noticed the National meet of "Borgward owners". About 15 funky little German cars including a Goliath Combi. I talked to a guy selling some Borgward (Blaupunkt) radios; he said he had one with the word Volkswagen on it from 1965 or so...I bought it site unseen. Then I went down the street to pick up a 1950's blender I had my eye on for awhile at a local antique store, and found a beautiful-Mint 3-piece set of 50's-or-60's Samsonite luggage, the same color as the original paint on my Deluxe! I cant wait for next weekend :-)
 2001-06-25 (17.07k)
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L'Universelle L'Universelle
david benardo

What a strange weekend. First off; I saw the infamous May 72 issue of nation geographic just sitting on top of a pile of old magazines for sale at the library...10 cents! Then I picked up a old issue of "special interest autos" and found a big article on the "L'Universelle" In which they mentioned taking all the good stuff from the VW Transporter and GMC Carryalls and coming up with something which would cost more than a Cadillac.. it never made it past the "concept" stage. These guys new how to make a "production" "slammed" bus in 1955! And check out the cool air intake built in the roof. And then Driving around my own little town of Benicia CA I noticed the National meet of "Borgward owners". About 15 funky little German cars including a Goliath Combi. I talked to a guy selling some Borgward (Blaupunkt) radios; he said he had one with the word Volkswagen on it from 1965 or so...I bought it site unseen. Then I went down the street to pick up a 1950's blender I had my eye on for awhile at a local antique store, and found a beautiful-Mint 3-piece set of 50's-or-60's Samsonite luggage, the same color as the original paint on my Deluxe! I cant wait for next weekend :-)
 2001-06-25 (23.44k)
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L'Universelle L'Universelle
david benardo

What a strange weekend. First off; I saw the infamous May 72 issue of nation geographic just sitting on top of a pile of old magazines for sale at the library...10 cents! Then I picked up a old issue of "special interest autos" and found a big article on the "L'Universelle" In which they mentioned taking all the good stuff from the VW Transporter and GMC Carryalls and coming up with something which would cost more than a Cadillac.. it never made it past the "concept" stage. These guys new how to make a "production" "slammed" bus in 1955! And check out the cool air intake built in the roof. And then Driving around my own little town of Benicia CA I noticed the National meet of "Borgward owners". About 15 funky little German cars including a Goliath Combi. I talked to a guy selling some Borgward (Blaupunkt) radios; he said he had one with the word Volkswagen on it from 1965 or so...I bought it site unseen. Then I went down the street to pick up a 1950's blender I had my eye on for awhile at a local antique store, and found a beautiful-Mint 3-piece set of 50's-or-60's Samsonite luggage, the same color as the original paint on my Deluxe! I cant wait for next weekend :-)
 2001-06-25 (16.4k)
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Goliath Combi Goliath Combi
david benardo

What a strange weekend. First off; I saw the infamous May 72 issue of nation geographic just sitting on top of a pile of old magazines for sale at the library...10 cents! Then I picked up a old issue of "special interest autos" and found a big article on the "L'Universelle" In which they mentioned taking all the good stuff from the VW Transporter and GMC Carryalls and coming up with something which would cost more than a Cadillac.. it never made it past the "concept" stage. These guys new how to make a "production" "slammed" bus in 1955! And check out the cool air intake built in the roof. And then Driving around my own little town of Benicia CA I noticed the National meet of "Borgward owners". About 15 funky little German cars including a Goliath Combi. I talked to a guy selling some Borgward (Blaupunkt) radios; he said he had one with the word Volkswagen on it from 1965 or so...I bought it site unseen. Then I went down the street to pick up a 1950's blender I had my eye on for awhile at a local antique store, and found a beautiful-Mint 3-piece set of 50's-or-60's Samsonite luggage, the same color as the original paint on my Deluxe! I cant wait for next weekend :-)
 2001-06-25 (9.08k)
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Vintage Bus Clones Vintage Bus Clones
Jerry Jess
Goliath
 2001-01-09 (81.68k)
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New bus? New bus?

Perhaps a Goliath Express?
 2001-01-09 (34.39k)
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Goliath Pickup Goliath Pickup


 2000-11-06 (20.19k)
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10/27/02 charlie hoffman is it 4 sale ?
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A rare Goliath pickup
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07/03/02 fs Sorry if the following reads confusingly.
I have a parts-and-pieces Goliath truck... soon to go to one of those tax scam donation people if they'll take it. or to scrap.

anyone know where to advertise it so that someone might actually use it or some of it?
Ive posted on Borgward message boards, usenet, and one local area ad site.
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since the ad I found more pics on
http://vintagebus.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?string=goliath
3rd and 4th pics from bottom, of "pickup". These are better than the photo I linked to in the ad, because ours has the cab body rounded, grille and air scoop (what to call that?) under the windshield, as shown in these photos. However the sheet metal doesnt "protrude" around the headlights as shown in these photos.

http://www.vintagebus.com/gallery/image/515.JPG



http://www.vintagebus.com/gallery/image/1245.JPG

Ours is mostly disassembled, the body is red with gray primer, but it has fine "dusting" of rust forming in places. At the edge of the roof there is a rust colored blotch similar to the blotch on the door of 515.JPG (definitely not close to scaling etc.)

Ours has black hubcaps with a stylized red "G". The roof is about 6 2" high..
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The above is recent info
The following is older info I posted in ad(s):
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'59 (?) Goliath (Borgward) truck: "Cute". Rusty, weathered with cracked windshield. Also have some usable and many unusable parts. Some engine parts broken, so probably needs engine swap of different manufacturer engine. Rusting. Plywood bed. Red. Heavy payload capability. Front engine/rear drive. Potential sleeper/project (huge mid engine)?

It is red, but looks a lot like
http://home.c2i.net/toestlie/borgward/images/danm98/lasteb1.jpg
on
http://home.c2i.net/toestlie/borgward/danm98/dk_pic6.htm

Will give free or it will go to wreckers. (likely! :) )
Central Contra Costa
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I cant find my film photos I took about one month ago, else Id scan and post photos.
thanks in advance for any help
for888sale@yahoo.com
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10/27/02 charlie hoffman very interesting bus is it 4 sale?
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12/18/08 Duane Richards I have a Goliath touring bus that I would like to sell. It was running when I parked it but that has been several years ago. It is missing the back window and needs the front passenger seat. I also have the manual. I can't remember what year it is right now. Can get the year and some pictures if anyone is interested. Let me know. Thanks Duane
08/05/08 Tim Thom,
I am trying to contact you somehow. Do you know of any Goliath 1100 Express micro buses for sale? I see an old picture of this white one with tow bar on the front from 10/27/02? Picture taken by JPHenrikse?? Can you helpo me find one? Tim
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