Jin Botol: VW

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

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/

Saturday, February 22, 2014

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/

Thursday, February 20, 2014

VW vans... do the math

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

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

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

Monday, February 17, 2014

no translato... but it appears to be a VW dealership in Brazil that was suddenly closed, and now used to store a private 3 car collection

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

You're quite right, it's a short film based on a true story.

It’s about a man, currently a senior citizen in their's 80, who due to a sudden change in VW's dealership policy, lost the representation of that brand. It happened in 2001, in a small town (30k people) in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. In that year, VW state that every dealership that would sell less than 60 cars/year should shut down.

However, that man wakes up every day, put on business clothes and opens the shop. He still has some OEM parts, and some brand new cars, like a 10mil. Beetle. His routine is about chatting with friends, eventualy selling some parts (even requested by mail), and giving some loving to his "autos", that's the way he tenderly refers to his cars.

Regards from Sao Paulo, Brazil... Andre

Thank you VERY much Andre!

If anyone can get his contact info, I will be pleased and privileged to run his info here on my site to let people know he has VW parts and cars to sell, it might help him, or some reader! For anyone who can should do what they can to help a fellow car guy stay in business if they can, and this is what I can do

I've no idea... it's a take on Dali from VW... but what does it mean?

Found on http://flaviogomes.warmup.com.br/2013/11/one-comment-535/

BJ has a take on it, that it's about incredible gas mileage:
The fuel tank nearly full (nearly full all the time), the tightened belt (an allegory to frugality, ) the melting gas lorry ( no longer needed or used) the worker in overalls ( no longer able to work because of the low gas consumption) empty pulled out pockets (same) the oil rigs used as flower pots (repurposed and useful since they no longer need to pump out the oil) the ants in the foreground (.....) well that's just weird...

Saturday, February 15, 2014

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/