Beginning…

It all began in June 7 2008 with the response to craigslist entry for a 1973 VW microbus.
Previous owner had brought the bus about 6 months, earlier ran it for 2 days before blowing the engine (missing cooling tin = overheat). Along with the purchase of the bus came a copy of the standard hippy reference manual for all air-cooled engines – John Muirs’ “How to keep your Volkswagen alive”. The pages around Chapter 10 (Engine removal) the pages were black from oily finger prints, the oil deposit concentration increased through the next few pages, with final pages almost completely soaked. I can picture the scene vividly… next to the bus was a wooden bench with a semi dismantled engine. Happily for this story that will be last we speak of the formal propulsion device.

We got a straight, solid bus, 4 tires and the framework for a good project. All major components in good order, and host of spares parts and a pink bicycle – it amazing the things that you find in a VW bus.