Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:33:54 -0700
Reply-To: Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Volkswagen Type 2 Bus Evolution Detailed In Groovy Family Tree
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My father had a 1960 split window Bus when I was 8 year old...
I started with a 1974 Bus in 1978, kept it till 1982... got a 1985
weekender (poptop, no kitchen) in 1990... then a 1988 Carat in 2005... and
so on...
I drive one, my wife drives one, my daughter drives one and my son drives
one...
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 9:33 PM OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
> Eric
>
> Got a big Laugh Here out of that 1 ~ Do Hope You @ least got that
> 1% on Film ~
>
> I'm thinkin a Big Snowy parking lot or wonderfully wide open Long Ocean
> Beach ~
>
> ORR ~ DeanB
>
> On 27 Oct , 2020, at 6:38 PM, Eric Caron wrote:
>
> > My first was a 74 bus purchased for $450.00 from a professor at SUNY
> Albany. I fixed up the rust a bit and put in a simple bed. I took a
> summer with my girlfriend. She could really drive, and as I’m blind she
> did 99 percent of the driving. The other one percent will not be discussed
> on line!
> >
> > I sold it to search for a camper and purchased a 74adventure wagon,
> later a 76 Westfalia and then a 84 camper, and now my forever van is a 85
> camper.
> >
> > Before the bus was a 74 super beetle and between busses a 71 super
> beetle sunroof.
> > All were sold in better shape then I purchased them.
> >
> > I often wonder about those busses, and beetles.
> >
> > Eric Caron
> >
> >> On Oct 27, 2020, at 7:43 PM, Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> mine was a '78 tintop in Colorado. Travelled extensively with camping
> >> stoves and Luma (German abbreviation for "Luftmatraze") and plastic
> bins.
> >> Got my '81 westy in '94 (Jenny) (east coast) and unfortunately she is
> >> rusting away now....
> >>
> >> Karl.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 6:56 PM Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> My first van was a 1970 Tintop, acquired in 1974; traveled all around
> the
> >>> USA in that one. Next van is my present one, 1985 Tintop, acquired in
> >>> 1989. Both with self designed and homebuilt camping interiors.
> Recent new
> >>> Subie 2.2 and rebuilt transmission, now van has 285,000 miles of fun,
> been
> >>> everywhere. Yep....these contraptions sure get into your blood;
> nothing
> >>> quite like them. Thanks for sharing this link. Again....nothing quite
> >>> like them.
> >>>
> >>> Rich
> >>> San Diego
> >>>
> >>> On Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 6:53:35 AM PDT, Jack R <
> >>> jack007@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Volkswagen Type 2 Bus Evolution Detailed In Groovy Family Tree
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> https://www.motor1.com/news/450912/volkswagen-type-2-bus-evolution/
> >>>
> >>>
>
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