Posts Tagged ‘Westfalia’
This weeks readers rides comes from Laura Anne who is sharing her 1978 Westy with us.
Laura purchased her van in February this year and with her boyfriend Trey they’ve just finished a complete resoration on the van. As you can see from the initial images the van wasn’t much of a looker.
“The car is in good condition, some rust here & there, nothing too major. There’s a large dent just under the left head light which we are preparing to fill with body filler. The car came with an extra sliding door that has little rust damage, and a plethora of other spare & original parts. The PO (previous owner) had done a lot of the dirty work already. He completely gutted the interior and took the old Formica off the storage compartments. He replaced the front beam, shocks, brakes, did some body work, cleaned the pop top. The only thing missing from the bus is the canvas tent-like material that goes in the pop top. But it did come with the AWESOME tent that attaches to the outside of the sliding door. Very awesome!” (more…)
Tags: Bay Window, Readers Rides, VW Van, Westfalia
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This weeks Readers Rides comes from Phil Clayton-Smith, who owns Noo noo a beautiful 1976 Bay Window pop top campervan.
Noo noo was first registered in March 1st 1976, with a 1.6cc air cooled engined, the body was a sage green. We decided to buy the bus as a first bus, thinking that a splitty is a bit too expensive for a starter project. The interior was far from perfect but the bus was run-able and decided that the van was perfect as we weren’t too sure what we wanted our inside to look like and this way we had a good engine and body and could put our own stamp on the interior.
We had a 160 mile trip home when we first picked up the van and I was wondering if it would even make it! We stopped for petrol and found the drivers seat had a broken spring which ripped my back pocket open! “This is going to be expensive!” I thought.
Tags: Bay Window, Readers Rides, Westfalia
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This weeks guest blog post comes from Jed, a long time VW Camper Van enthusiast from the States who tells us how, after a long time, he finally got the chance to own his own.
One day I was walking through a junkyard with my father looking for front-end parts for his bug, I came across this green VW camper bus.
“Dad,” I yelled over, “is this one of those VW bus.”
“Yes,” he replied, “Don’t play with it and get over here!”
I just could not help myself. One little look could not hurt, and then it happened I was hooked and had to have a VW bus. I did not feel the full pull of this desire until months after seeing that green bus, but all VW buses started looking good from that point forward. (more…)
Tags: Bay Window, Restoration, Westfalia
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This weeks Readers Rides comes from a fellow Devonian, James Richards from Newton Abbot who shows us his German imported VW T25:
Model: Volkswagen T25 / Type 25 Multivan Magnum Edition
Year: 1989
Conversion: Westfalia
Colour: Silver
Engine: 2.1 WBX
Tags: Readers Rides, T25, Westfalia
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