r/VWBus

(More like a after and before…Apologies for spamming! 🤣 just don’t know how to post a new photo to an existing post!)

Cheeky trip the beach for Jenny the bus this evening.

A crew of 4 very nice and friendly guys started their travel all the way from Malaysia in February and plan to go to HO26 Vintage Volkswagen meeting in the end of June. But after that their journey will go on as they will also visit the UK. As they produce quite a bit of emission along their way, they campaign as „Trip 4 Trees“ with the goal to plant 100.000 trees along the way with the help of their followers. Look them up on Facebook and Instagram and give them some support.

As they went through China, they saw their first snow ever and had to endure temperatures of -16 degrees Celsius and for the colder temperatures extra had to do an oil change on the way. Also they had a shattered windscreen already twice. Just look up their feed on Social Media to get an impression of their journey.

Yesterday they arrived in my hometown Vienna, Austria and i met up with them, had a great chat and will see them ar HO26 again. Also i agreed to plant all the tree seeds that i collected whilst mushroom hunting last season. In total 388 maple and oak seeds, as can be seen with our buses in the back.

I got the steering box & column out.

Now I have to cut out the old front floor.

I'm having some difficulty locating all the spot welds along the edges. I'm also not sure how I'm going to go about cutting the welds on that center area.

I guess I just cut into those​ welds by where the e-brake goes and that's that part.

It looks like the part where the shifter goes was ripped apart and then rewelded in places.

Slowly but surely, it's moving along. This is my first time handling an angle grinder.

About a wk ago a fire broke out at my parents garage, luckily it didn’t spread to any of the homes. Yesterday I went and picked up my bus. I don’t really know what to say, seeing it out in the sun absolutely broke my heart. I’ve had cars totaled and stolen and this was different kind of pain. I’m not sure where to go from here or what to do. What I do know is that this isn’t the end of its life. Last night after dropping it off at a friends I drove home and all I could think about was all the amazing memories I’ve been gifted because of it! Memories with my brothers, friends and family. But what stuck out the most was the memories I made with my daughters. I bought this bus only because of my divorce, at what felt like, at the time, the worst part of my life. Things didn’t get better because of the bus, but between that and my girls, I had something to look forward too, one more little thing stopping me from checking out. I was struggling with life (alcohol played a huge part in that) and I honestly didn’t think I’d make it. There was so much work to be done, and there still is. I cried in this thing, I laughed, I escaped, my daughters would leave to spend the wk with mom, and when my head got too loud and I didn’t know what to do with myself I’d simply hop in turn on my ridiculous sound system pick my music and go! I needed this in my life and I honestly don’t think I would have gotten where I’m at today with partial help from it. It’s never just been a vw or bus to me! So for now, I’m gonna put her in the garage till I figure where to go from here. It’s gonna take time, but like every other experience in my life it does get better🫶🏻

The Golden Gate chapter of the Vintage Volkswagen Club puts on a show at Kelley Park in San Jose, CA. The park is laid out like a small town, with buildings brought in and staged around private “streets” instead of being torn down. It’s quite the venue!

A couple comparisons with a split and a later model - as seen at the Spring Meet in San Jose.

It’s been an emotional 11-year journey with this bus. It’s a 1600cc single-port with a CSP Python exhaust—sounds amazing on the road. The caravan is the real star, though; built as a school project in 1967/68. It has a solid wood interior and that pure late-60s atmosphere. Only three were ever made. It’s been a privilege to preserve this combo, but now it’s time for a new enthusiast to take over. What’s your favorite vintage camping memory?

Looking forward to some VW camping soon.

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