what was a 23 window deluxe doing on the Indy 500 start line?

Found on http://flaviogomes.warmup.com.br/2013/05/kombi-do-dia-14/

of course we need to move a moosehead now and then, and a grandfather clock... and a VW van is best for that!

Found on http://aacalibrary.tumblr.com/

VW vans... do the math

found on http://flaviogomes.warmup.com.br/category/kombi-cia/

a new story of a VW mini bus beyond normal conditions of restorable, reachable, or desireable.. but they pulled it out of a Swedish swamp anyway, with a helicopter

Found on http://www.roadandtrack.com/go/car-culture/rescuing-1951-vw-barndoor-bus

For the other astonishing stories of VW vans that people went to great lengths to save:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/1957-deluxe-vw-23-window-bus-pulled.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/not-too-far-gone-to-save-because-in.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-happened-to-bury-this-1950-vw-213.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-embarassing-i-accidentally-deleted.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/10/forest-find-kombi-and-great-effort-to.html

How embarassing, I accidentally deleted the Bullet Bus post.... so I'm reposting it

a 1966 21-window Volkswagen Type 2 bus. Abandoned somewhere in the Nevada desert, it was partially stripped and left to rust, then shot up by gun-toting desert wanderers looking for a bit of target practice.

Over 500 rounds pierced the already fragile tin walls of the bus before a member of TheSamba.com, legendary vintage VW forum, put it upon a trailer and drove it 100 miles home. Within about a week kombisutra had installed a front end, transaxle, steering box, steering wheel, and brakes. As the Kombi was missing “virtually everything,” a massive donation effort was started. Seats, windows, electrics, ignition locks, a semi-functioning interior, DMV bribes—parts streamed in from every corner of the country, sent by enthusiasts who probably just wanted to see how far they could take such an improbable machine into the realm of function. And eventually the answer was, all the way

Text from http://hooniverse.com/2011/02/15/the-strange-beautiful-saga-of-the-bullet-bus/

Story from the guy that found it here: http://www.rollingheads.org/rigs/bullet-bus.html

This is a monster, like if Frankenstein bred a VW van and a bass boat AND an rv

Give a consideration to what a yacht might look like with a split window theme... or an Aistream... OR EVEN BETTER! A Winnebago sized Splittie!

Any Photoshopper wanna try that out and show everyone what it would look like?

Found on http://outsidethecubicle.tumblr.com/

sneaky cops using radar...

found on http://flaviogomes.warmup.com.br/

the last of it's kind, a strong and noble breed... the VW van / kombi

it's went on to it's great reward, in the VW museum in Hannover

Found on http://flaviogomes.warmup.com.br/  info at http://carplace.virgula.uol.com.br/volkswagen-ultima-kombi-produzida-no-brasil-vira-peca-de-museu-na-alemanha/