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 aircooled 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 ladies bicycle – it amazing the things that you find in a VW bus.
