| My Volkswagen World:Buses, & Beetles, & Type3's , oh my. | |||||||||||||||||
| This is the bus that started it all. :) |
One night while in high-school, I got my chance to ride in my first VW bus.It had a nice body, newly repainted red. It was a loaf. Not sure what year it was.I still see the guy who drove it every once & awhile. It's been 6 years since that first, fateful ride.I ended up working a whole summer, at 2 jobs to save for a bus. I worked 60-80 hrs. a week.I finally found a '75 that was $2000.It was within my price range. I went to take a look.It looked wonderful to me. I ended up buying the orange & white in Oct. of 1992. I just took it out of a 3&a-half year slumber in a garage. One of the valves is shot.Needs a new head. Hope to get it fixed this year. Along with some rust management, battery tray weld in,(going to make it my first welding experience) & some bondo to be removed & fixed right. I realized quick that i paid too much for this bus. The very first time I went to fill the tank, one of the fuel lines broke & leaked fuel all over the place. (Luckily no fire) Then i realized later on that it had a 1600 beetle engine in it. My new VW mechanic said it was a pretty bad job too. DAMN! My bus saw some tour action. It's first show was at Richfield,OH during the blizzard of '92(or was it '93? it was the same winter i think) Quite a few other small road trips from here in Cincinnati. The trip to Ft. Lauderdale FL would be the one to finally really hurt my bus.After i got back from this road trip, turns out i blew the rings. And my starter wasn't always working. Push starting was getting old.I found another bus for $500. A pea green & white '78 with 160k on the engine. I had no idea what i was doing.I parked the '75 to tend to later. I thought it was very nice. Not much rust. Originally from Oregon. The Green bus also took me some places.It made it to Philadelphia, Saint Louis, & Chicago. Those were the biggest ones. Also many 2-4 hr road trips. | ||||||||||||||||
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