EgoTrippin
Well-known member
I've been threatening to do this for a while, and now I have owned the bus for 5 years, I thought it would be a good time to start a thread on my bus 
After stumbling across Brighton Breeze in 2005, I got totally hooked on Volkswagens, going to every show I could (usually on public transport!) and getting every mag I could lay my hands on. Finally in 2007, I got the money together for a bus and the search was on!
I kept coming back to an advert on the Roadhouse Retro website for a neptune blue 1970 Kombi. After chatting with Tim, I went up to view it once it had arrived in the country from California. It was in better condition than either of us expected
Photo from California
and some of Tim's first photos of it when it arrived in the UK
The bus left the factory in November 1969, and was shipped to California where it was bought from the Wes Behel VW dealership in Sunnyvale by Mr Keiter of Vacaville, California. Apparently the engine caught fire on a cross country trip to show off there new baby son to the rest of the family. After many years, the bus was handed down to Jason (the son) who used it for trips to Lake Tahoe to windsurf and fly radio controlled aircraft. The bus still has the 'Academy of Model Aeronautics' sticker in the rear window. There was also a rack fixed inside the bus for the windsurf boards.
The bus has a great patina to the roof, and also the drivers door where Jason and his dad lent their arm out of the window whilst driving.
There is a dent by the right front indicator which came from a deer strike!
After agreeing to buy the bus from Tim, we both agreed it needed to be dropped (by a long way), so I left the bus with Tim for the slam job.
This was one of the first bay windows in the UK to be running a king & link pin set up, using a 2" narrowed CB performance beam with drop spindles and notches to the chassis. The rear was dropped by 2 splines on the existing springplates (no adjustable spring plates were available back then for 1970 buses).
For wheels, I went with JGE Torkers as no one else was running these wheels on a bay, and I prefer the 5 spoke look. Tyres are 185/60 on the rear, and 175/50 up front.
Work in progress...
After stumbling across Brighton Breeze in 2005, I got totally hooked on Volkswagens, going to every show I could (usually on public transport!) and getting every mag I could lay my hands on. Finally in 2007, I got the money together for a bus and the search was on!
I kept coming back to an advert on the Roadhouse Retro website for a neptune blue 1970 Kombi. After chatting with Tim, I went up to view it once it had arrived in the country from California. It was in better condition than either of us expected
Photo from California
and some of Tim's first photos of it when it arrived in the UK
The bus left the factory in November 1969, and was shipped to California where it was bought from the Wes Behel VW dealership in Sunnyvale by Mr Keiter of Vacaville, California. Apparently the engine caught fire on a cross country trip to show off there new baby son to the rest of the family. After many years, the bus was handed down to Jason (the son) who used it for trips to Lake Tahoe to windsurf and fly radio controlled aircraft. The bus still has the 'Academy of Model Aeronautics' sticker in the rear window. There was also a rack fixed inside the bus for the windsurf boards.
The bus has a great patina to the roof, and also the drivers door where Jason and his dad lent their arm out of the window whilst driving.
There is a dent by the right front indicator which came from a deer strike!
After agreeing to buy the bus from Tim, we both agreed it needed to be dropped (by a long way), so I left the bus with Tim for the slam job.
This was one of the first bay windows in the UK to be running a king & link pin set up, using a 2" narrowed CB performance beam with drop spindles and notches to the chassis. The rear was dropped by 2 splines on the existing springplates (no adjustable spring plates were available back then for 1970 buses).
For wheels, I went with JGE Torkers as no one else was running these wheels on a bay, and I prefer the 5 spoke look. Tyres are 185/60 on the rear, and 175/50 up front.
Work in progress...
