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Showing posts with label camper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label camper. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Landy Like Around the World
If mountain bikers use saws and other tools, it's often to create wood features in the forest. Julia Hofmann used them for a different reason, though: to finish her bachelor thesis. No, she didn't assemble a series of wooden jumps and drops for school, but rather transformed a Series 2A Land Rover into her travelling bike caravan. Simply put, the German racer built her own dream vehicle, a two-wheeler's four-wheeler that she'll use to get to riding spots the world over. Below, she tells us the story of how it all came together.
Click link for Video and full artical by: Julia Hofmann
Sunday, February 2, 2014
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.
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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... |
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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
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