Single Cab Launch

How the Volkswagen Kombi became a family heirloom

The last five years has seen one of the enduring icons of sixties personal freedom appreciate in value so quickly that many owners may not know the value of their car could soon eclipse the value of their home. Last Saturday, January 21, 2017, a 21-window Volkswagen Samba sold for $302,500, indicating that the trend is further accelerating.
Mike Hanlon

Link:
http://newatlas.com/volkswagen-kombi-van-samba-bus/47501/

Pure Sadness

Go Speed Racer

Post by Al Poole.

Kombi...Last Wishes

Van life in Watercolor

Ah, van life! Is it any wonder the VW Vanagon Syncro won AJ’s ultimate adventure vehicle poll? But van life has its, um, wrinkles, as this awesome and very creative animated short shows you. The stop-motion film was created with 300 individual water color paintings, then pieced together with a small and dedicated crew. Who clearly know Vanagons.

Adventure Journal 
http://www.adventure-journal.com/2014/03/video-of-the-day-van-life-in-watercolor/

The Vanagon Song

Airport Buses

Playboy Bunny jet with a young Hue Hefner

Pan American

So true

Sweet Buses to Trippy Music

I have watched this video so many times. There is just something about watching these two old Buses drive around the field to this strange music.

Why 4ORTY2?

I am huge VW Bus fan, and have been fortunate to own several, but my favorite is my 1966 SO42. Hence  4ORTY2  as a nod to my bus. Thanks to Frank's bus for giving a great explanation to the definition of SO. The photo below is not mine, but mine looks the same.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SO comes from sonderausfuhrungen which means 'special model' and was how VW designated that special models. For example SO1 was a westfalia's mobile shop, SO3 a police car or SO30 an ambulance. All these models where based on VW's Buses. SO42 was ones of the last westfalia's camper conversions on a Split (T1) bus basis, before was SO22, SO23, SO33, SO34, SO35. SO44 and SO45 where contemporary to SO42 which was available between 1965 and 1967. 1967 was the las year of the Split(window), then came the Baywindow (T2), then the Wedge (T3), then...

The SO42 westfalia conversion is sure the most famous and the most ever copied all around. Many other coachbuilders made similar conversions on panel or kombi basis but Westies where the only that could be ordered directly from the VW Factory.

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Frank's bus, an example of a pretty SO-42