EeVeeWee
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Eric is my name, I am currently 48 years old and I have had 10 bugs in the past in the time that they were worth nothing, in the late seventies and early eighties. Most are wrecked during autocross which I did that days. Autocross with bugs was usual because there are so many beetles thrown away in that time, thats why they are rare now and worth a lot of money.
I learned to ride around my twelfth year in a T2a (Bay Window) bus and at fourteen I already had a bug to cross in the pasture where I lived next to. The love of bugs started by watching the Herbie films at a young age, who does not know them?
My father had several T2a and T2b buses for his work and also a extended and raised version of a T1 (split window Kemperink).
We went on holidays with that camper from my 2nd year. :mrgreen:
Now I have bought my own T2 bus, with Riviera camper interior and pop-up roof, built in December 1968.
On the attic I found these pictures. The first pictures were taken in the summer of 1969. Later, a cabin of a T2 was weld on the bus by my father, in the first place because of a better split braking system. He also had welded hollow tubes underneath the bottom that served as gas cylinders and iron grilles underneath to bottom to store (wet) skies.
Here some pictures, from an engine repair next to the highway: :lol:
Here are the old T1 cabin and "fresh" T2 cabin:
There had been of course some more T2 buses used, like a pickup, a T2a and also a T2ab which I learned to drive in as a young boy.
An own crane was used to clean the bottom:
Here the pictures of my current VW's, a Karmann convertible bug form 1968 and the T2 Riviera camper also from 1968:
I learned to ride around my twelfth year in a T2a (Bay Window) bus and at fourteen I already had a bug to cross in the pasture where I lived next to. The love of bugs started by watching the Herbie films at a young age, who does not know them?
My father had several T2a and T2b buses for his work and also a extended and raised version of a T1 (split window Kemperink).
We went on holidays with that camper from my 2nd year. :mrgreen:
Now I have bought my own T2 bus, with Riviera camper interior and pop-up roof, built in December 1968.
On the attic I found these pictures. The first pictures were taken in the summer of 1969. Later, a cabin of a T2 was weld on the bus by my father, in the first place because of a better split braking system. He also had welded hollow tubes underneath the bottom that served as gas cylinders and iron grilles underneath to bottom to store (wet) skies.
Here some pictures, from an engine repair next to the highway: :lol:
Here are the old T1 cabin and "fresh" T2 cabin:
There had been of course some more T2 buses used, like a pickup, a T2a and also a T2ab which I learned to drive in as a young boy.
An own crane was used to clean the bottom:
Here the pictures of my current VW's, a Karmann convertible bug form 1968 and the T2 Riviera camper also from 1968:
