- Joined
- May 24, 2021
- Messages
- 99
- Reaction score
- 112
- Location
- County Durham
- Year of Your Van(s)
- 1970
- Van Type
- Microbus
Having joined on here about 3 years back, my wife & i finally took the plunge & bought our 1970 microbus. It was a cali import 8-10 years ago, & restored locally about 2-3 yrs back. We'd seen photos of it stripped out & bare metalled during that process.
We'd been planning to restore the 1963 beetle we've owned since mid nineties, & just got back into the aircooled VW mags & shows in the last two years, but felt a T2 could be more practical for days out with our dogs than the beetle. So the '63 remains mothballed with that decision postponed.
Driving our microbus is a culture shock having not driven our beetle or extended families aircooled VWs in over twenty years. Still on drums, which require some effort & planning, goosed fuel gauge so fill up every 200miles. mystery gearshift to keep you guessing what number you'll find when pointing the gearstick, all part of the charm i keep telling myself.
We'll spend time getting familiar with how it all works, theres certainly more complexity to a Bay than the Beetle.
Heres a picture on our first evening run out to a local beach this last weekend, to see how it would manage over the speedhumps. I'd like to go lower but its not notched, nor tubbed, & front arches have been rubbed previously so need touching up soon.
We'd been planning to restore the 1963 beetle we've owned since mid nineties, & just got back into the aircooled VW mags & shows in the last two years, but felt a T2 could be more practical for days out with our dogs than the beetle. So the '63 remains mothballed with that decision postponed.
Driving our microbus is a culture shock having not driven our beetle or extended families aircooled VWs in over twenty years. Still on drums, which require some effort & planning, goosed fuel gauge so fill up every 200miles. mystery gearshift to keep you guessing what number you'll find when pointing the gearstick, all part of the charm i keep telling myself.
We'll spend time getting familiar with how it all works, theres certainly more complexity to a Bay than the Beetle.
Heres a picture on our first evening run out to a local beach this last weekend, to see how it would manage over the speedhumps. I'd like to go lower but its not notched, nor tubbed, & front arches have been rubbed previously so need touching up soon.