I have recently set up a VW Camper Van Blog Flickr Group for people to add photos of their own VW vans or photos of cool VW Vans they have seen at shows or out and about.
A number of people have been contributing their photos to the group so I thought I would start showing them off here on the blog.
This is the first in a series of posts featuring the best photos that have been submitted to the Flickr Group. This first post focuses on where it all began… the Split Screen. There is some really nice photography here and some awesome split screen vans.
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Posted in Split Screen
Back in April, the VW Camper Van Blog started a competition to win a 26 Piece VW Camper Van Cutlery Set Worth £20 kindly supplied the good guys at Just Kampers.
To enter the competition all you had to do is subscribe by email to the VW Camper Van Blog. We have had a really good response to this with over 500 people entering the competition (and who now also benefit by receiving updates direct to their inbox from the VW Camper Van Blog - you can sign up here if you haven’t already done so!).
Of course, we didn’t ignore the people who were already signed up to the blog as these were automatically entered in the competition. Entries have now passed for this and a winner was chosen, at random, from our mailing list. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in VW Camper Van News
A couple of weeks ago, I spent a long weekend washing and waxing our VW Type 25 Camper Van. Whilst doing this, I was shocked (and annoyed) to see the first stages of bubbling on the paint work. Regular readers will know that just over 12 months ago I had my van stripped down and re-sprayed in an attempt to save it from the rust that was forming in the usual places (seams / lower offside panel / etc).
Now, just over a year on, it seems I will have to book the van back in to have some spots touched up within the next couple of months!
This got me thinking, is it possible to have a hassle free VW camper van? One that has the iconic style of a VW without the constant battle of trying to keep it looking nice? One that simply looks nice all the time? Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Bay Window, VW Camper Van Reviews
In Part 1 of ‘Our 5500 Mile Trip across Australia in a Camper Van’ we told of our journey from Adelaide to Melbourne in a Camper Van. In Part 2 we travelled from Melbourne to Sydney and we now continue our travels from Sydney right up to Cairns.
We left of where we said goodbye to my Mum, Dad and brother who had flown out to Sydney to see us. We got back in the van and headed north up the coast passed Newcastle to Port Macquarie. We were so keen to make up some ground as we were well behind our schedule. So keen was I in fact that I completely ignored a Police Officer in the middle of the road waving me in to do a random breathalyser test. I only realised I had done this when I saw him in my rear view mirror with his sirens on yelling furiously at me to ‘pull over!’. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Amazing VW Journeys, VW Camper Van Holidays
Being a graphic designer by trade, we have been involved in a number of clothing design projects in our time. This has involved a great deal of t-shirt design. Because of this I am always on the hunt for well designed t-shirts and hoodies but I can very rarely find any decent VW Camper or Bus t-shirts.
We have all seen them around, cheap t-shirts with line drawings or photos of Splitties or Bay Window Vans on the front (not so many T25’s I might add!), but most of them look just plain tacky to me (not to mention bad quality)! Many trips to Cornwall have involved riffling through a rail of t-shirts in the hope of finding something decent to no avail.
So I thought I would go on a hunt for the best VW Camper Van t-shirts I could find on the web. Here I share my findings with 11 awesome Volkswagen Van T-shirts:
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Posted in VW Camper Van Clothing
This weeks Readers Rides comes from Tony and Elena from California who show off their 1978 Bay Window ”No Fuss Happy Bus”:
Year: 1978
Location: Humboldt County on the North Coast of California, United States
Color: Sage Green L63H
Miles: 117,000
Engine: 2.0L
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Posted in Readers Rides
The VW Camper Van Blog has teamed up with the good guys at Just Kampers to offer our readers the chance to win a VW Camper Van 26 piece cutlery set worth £20!
This 6 person, 26 piece cutlery set is ideal for any camping holiday in your VW Van and features Splitscreens, Baywindows, Type 25s and T4s. All items are made from stainless steel and wrapped in a handy folding wallet. The set contains 6x knives, 6x forks, 6x table spoons, 6x tea spoons, cheese knife and finally a pen knife bottle opener cork screw combination.
To be in with a chance to win, simply become an email subscriber to the VW Camper Van Blog. Simple as that! At the end of the competition we will choose a winner at random from our subscriber list. And don’t worry, if you are already a subscriber to the VW Camper Van Blog, you have already been entered in the competition!
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Posted in VW Camper Van News
This weeks Readers Rides comes from Russ, another VW fan I have met on Twitter (if you are not already following us you can follow the VW Camper Van Blog on Twitter here). Russ shows us his 1978 VW Bay Window Bus:
Year: 1978
Conversion: Westfalia standard Campmobile
Location: Georgia, United States
Color: Sage Green L63H
Miles: 217,000
Engine: 2.0L Type IV, Bosch L-Jetronic fuel injection
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Posted in Bay Window, Readers Rides
Following on from my blog post back in December, I had another exciting moment in WH Smiths the other day. I had received an email from another VW Camper Van Owner (’68 Devon) congratulating me for my van being featured in this months copy of VW Camper and Bus.
It was at that point that I remembered that I had sent in some photos a few weeks earlier thinking (or hoping) that they might be of interest.
So I jumped in the car (which was blocking the VW on the drive and is much easier to park in town) and headed off for WH Smiths. I rushed in a grabbed a copy and ripped open the sealed bag and headed straight for the Readers Rides section.
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Posted in T25, VW Camper Van News
I was going through my iPhoto library the other day and could not believe how many shots I had of random VW Camper Vans. It seems every time I see one I have take a photo of it (those of you who follow the VW Camper Van Blog on Twitter will know this as I often tweet the photos straight from my phone).
As I have so many photos I have set up a VW Camper Van Blog Flickr account so please feel free to take a look and follow me on Flickr. I have also set up a VW Camper Van Blog Flickr Group for anyone who wants to upload there own photos of VW Vans.
Anyway, I thought I would go through all the photos I have and post some of them here. Some are from the various shows I attended last year and others have just been shot on the roadside. Oh, and I have thrown in a couple of shots of my own van for good measure!
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Posted in Bay Window, Split Screen, T25
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