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Classic VW Campers have become hot property with values jumping a third in five years - this is how much one will cost you today The truth is that we started with nothing and still have most of it.

I’m looking to buy a unit like that. If anyone has one for sale, let me know.

Today I discovered that this inexpensive, collapsible dish rack just happens to fit perfectly in the stock Westy sink. They are available from, among other places, Temu.

That’s a rather personal question!

Me thinks that if the teams of German engineers thought that a lightened flywheel was a good idea for our buses then they would have specified them. One thing that they did specify is a specific distributor: a 211 905 205Q, when married to a 34PICT3, is the correct answer. While almost all...

Didn’t know that. Thanks for the enlightenment.

In the desert just outside of Joshua Tree National Park, southern California. About an hour’s away from the Wolfsburg West.

At least it matches my trousers.

A phone and tablet use little, no inverter is really needed, just a USB outlet. A electric kettle is a whole ‘nuther problem: a typical electric kettle will damn near suck the plug off the wall. I was a Trucker, I used a 1000 watt inverter for my electric kettle and it was barely enough. A...

No, I am not calling you a knob, it’s just that I obtained one of the knobs manufactured by Daz Kamper in Lincolnshire. At the time, I was reluctant to buy the whole set because I couldn’t afford it. But now, I want to buy the whole set but their domain name hasn’t been renewed. Is Daz Kamper...

The “Lantern Walk” is an opportunity for everyone with a Coleman lantern to parade through the campground and then pose for a group photo. Coleman white gas lanterns are very popular at this annual event.

Silverado is a small town in Southern California. Every year, the Silverado campout happens at one of the County parks. This year, it was from March 31st to April 2nd. Since we like Early Bays here, I snapped photos of buses that I thought the folks here would like.

Not technically. Volkswagen supplied unfinished ones to Westfalia who then gussied them up and then those were sold by Volkswagen dealers.

Correct grey hubcaps and correct grey sliding door hinge!

This reminds me of the era when only Late Bay front end replacement skins were available. It used to throw us off when we would attempt to identify what year it was.

Agreed. About three times too much, but they’re stainless! Whether they’re useful or practical is not my department.

Off the shelf from an odd merchant of whom I know little about. The red type above is a hyperlink to it.

I found a source for stainless steel hinges that go above the engine lid. Installed them a few days ago. Their final cost gave me the vapors, but my bus is now much, much faster now (in my dreams, anyway). Hinges actually do get knackered over 50+ years, and (since I live in California) mine...

A VW boutique that I used to frequent had problems with those boots. They tried several different pair (all that looked good) from several suppliers on my bus until they found ones that didn’t leak. (This was over a decade ago.) JADP.

In my never-ending (yet pointless) quest to replace everything possible with its stainless steel equivalent, I have replaced my (perfectly good) accelerator return spring with one made of stainless steel. While there has not been a noticeable trend of rusty accelerator return springs that I am...