happy hanukkah
categories: a thousand words, collectabus, as seen on tv
Mitzvah Mobile! Get yours at the Design Warehouse.
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sad day
categories: a thousand words, broken bus, campmobile, as seen on tv
Fellow bug_pack members Kristen and Mike lost their bus when a recycling truck broadsided them. Mike, who was driving is ok, but many memories are lost.
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passing the bus
categories: a thousand words, collectabus, this old bus, moving forward
Is your young one dreaming of a VW Bus? Are they hoping to inherit your beloved camper? When is a good time to hand down the family jewels? I inherited my Grandma’s car (a 1966 Pontiac Beaumont Sport Deluxe) when I was 16 and wrote it off in a bad accident a year later, so by my example 16 is maybe too young.
When my kids are old enough to drive, a “beater car” will probably be a 2002 Aztec. Gone are the days of picking an old aircooled VW for a few hundred dollars and grinding the gears until you learn how to work your way through a 4 speed.
These days most split window buses are more valuable than a high end laptop and are appreciating daily. Would you let your kids drive your prized $60k Samba? Comment away.
[image courtesy of Jake74]
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zoom zoom zoom
categories: a thousand words, moving forward, as seen on tv
A video is worth 10,000 words so I’ll let YouTube speak for this one, but it’s clear the marriage of a Mazda rotary engine and a bay window bus can have positive results.
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still life with van
categories: a thousand words, campmobile
My favourite shirt site, Threadless, sent me their weekly newsletter this and low and behold one of the designs had a bus in it. Congrats to Andy Pitts for getting on Threadless with his Still Life with Van. Looks to be a nice 70s VW bay window Westfalia set against that metropolitan backdrop. Yes, of course, an XL is on its way.
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sunshine and friends
categories: a thousand words, collectabus, this old bus
A nice little video put together by Fox Searchlight to promote Little Miss Sunshine to Volkswagen Bus fans.
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bay window beige bus bonaza!
categories: a thousand words, this old bus, canadiana
Not only are they all beige bay window campers, but they’re all 1979 models. What are the odds? Only at your VW Bus headquarters, German Supply.
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you’ve got bus mail
categories: a thousand words, earthling, this old bus
Stamps issued in 1968 from Dohomey, Africa.
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spotting yourself in a magazine is cool
categories: a thousand words, this old bus
So I’m leafing through the September 2006 copy of Hot VWs at my local Chapters and I see the article on the Michigan Vintage VW Club’s Ypsilanti show back in May of this year. Cool! It’s an awesome show. We went for the first time and loved it. I bought the magazine for future reading.
A few weeks later I started reading the article. Immediately I started scanning the photos… what are the odds Buddy, our bus, is in one of them. Almost… in a couple photos, then…. I found it. Super cool. So I show it to Julia and she says… “and there’s you”. Wow! I realize it’s hard to tell, but that’s me because only 10 people in the world have that red dog on the back of their black hoodie! Click image to see close up on Flickr.
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2 vws, 1 driver
categories: a thousand words, broken bus, this old bus
Thanks to Scott’s Beetle Bar (also a Ghia Bar) I was able to drive both Buddy and Karmella to Toronto for some repairs at the German Supply shop. Karmella is staying for a few weeks until she gets her electrical system sorted out.
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little miss sunshine
categories: a thousand words, this old bus
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE tells the story of the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families ever seen on motion picture screens. Together, the motley six-member family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, to fulfill the deepest wish of 7-year-old Olive, an ordinary little girl with big dreams. Along the way the family must deal with crushed dreams, heartbreaks, and a broken-down VW bus, leading up to the surreal Little Miss Sunshine competition itself. On their travels through this bizarrely funny landscape, the Hoovers learn to trust and support each other along the path of life, no matter what the challenge.
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i’ve been everywhere, man
categories: a thousand words, collectabus, this old bus, campmobile
As sang by the Man in Black…
| I’ve been everywhere, man I’ve been everywhere, man Crossed the deserts bare, man I’ve breathed the mountain air, man Travel…I’ve had my share, man I’ve been everywhere I’ve been to Banff Calgary Portage La Parrie Minnesota North Dakota Seatle Washington State Can’t remember the date. Vancouver Wisconson Michigan Idaho Toronto Ottawa Regina Blane Isn’t that a shame. |
Charlottetown British Columbia Massena Nova Scotia Frontenac Chateau Montreal Expo 67 was real. Sussex Calgary St. Lawrence Seaway New York New York Kakabeka Falls Magentic Hill And a few times to PEI I’m not sure why. |