Stunning effort. BTW. This video is excellent, the pictures told the story, no useless chat. I'm now oing to bust out Creedence ................. on vinyl.
Sweet! In the 80's I found a running 61', 6V bus, yellow with white top that had the back curved windows and mint original interior that ran well- for $200.! I popped a 12V 72 Super Beetle engine in it and never had a problem starting it with the 6V starter. Turned over instantly and never burnt out! Took that thing all over the North East and Canada for back road joy rides and camping. Back seat folded out to a full bed. A full set of curtains and a few coolers gave me all I needed to stay rent free during evenings in the woods or on beaches. I had to learn to not answer the door when cops came knocking at 3 a.m. to try and chase me away. Always a problem in the U.S.. So much fun!
Awesome. Dont ever sell that bus, you will regret it for the rest of your life. Trust me. Good luck with all the fun to make it shine again. That bus looked pretty good after so many years.
love the CCR!!! grew up in San Francisco in the 60's listening !!! Great find !!! And had an uncle who lived in the Haight who had a Bus !!! Great fun we had trying to climb all the hills !!!
Hello to my southern neighbors from the Land of the MIdnight Sun. There's something very satisfying about rescuing and preserving a good old bus, they really respond to a little (ok, a LOT) of TLC. Enjoy the good karma your saved bus brings you. -Tim in my resurrected '58 dove blue camper
Just remember folks every video that you watch of these people financially /support thier efforts in restoring/saving these VWs, so if you have time click on video and watch in the back ground while doing other things.
I don't care what era you were born these cars are magnificent yes a lot of work to restore but respect them this vehicle is over 60 years old magnificent potential if you can weld work with sheet metal your half way there good luck with it all
Nice one hope the job goes well for you. I had a type 2 made in 1970 a camper kept it for 18 years (only last 14 on the road). Used it from 1976 in the UK and France. Happy days called it Skippy. Have a normal motorhome now.
Gold. You found gold. A 55 23 window bus. Absolute gold. Would have travelled 5 times as far to pick that one up. Hope someone rescues the bug too. I've subscribed purely in the hope you post updates.
BTW- I went through 5 different V.W. buses, 61' to 67' and 12 different engines. It was my hobby that got me through the 80's with transportation & many hours on my back with my grease covered Idiots Manual!
I got wood about 4 minutes in,and we used to drive around with our left foot propped up on the headlight bucket back in the late 70s and 80s and even a minor front fender bender turned into a cane walk or a prosthetic walk back when...
Great video. I can't wait to see your journey to restore it. Can you please tell me how you were able to use the music without getting flagged for a copyright violation? I want to do a video on my Beetle restoration with music. Thank you.
This video did get copyright claimed so I won't get any money off of it. I'd suggest finding some noncopyright music off of a website so you can actually monetize your video.
I actually put a “looking for old VW’s” ad on Facebook. Someone responded and said his brother has an old 21 or 23 up north and we got his phone number. After months of my dad calling him, we finally got some pictures and drove up. We got transfer papers but I don’t think it’s in our name yet.
50 years ago these were going for 75$ for a 57 and you could drive them on the roads back then...now if they gold plaited one of those turds and made it like new and said, take it for a spin in this here 21st century....Some ones being Chimerical, EH!
