Enjoyable video except I wish the archival footage hadn't been stretched horizontally to fill the 16:9 aspect ratio of the video. Makes everything look squished and bad.
What a wonderful video, thanks! Something I'm starting to realize is that my May of '58 splitty is a special one: of the millions of splitties in the world, I'm the happy owner of the oldest farthest North VW bus. The HiBearN8R and I travel around Alaska year-round ✌
They sure are comfortable. I've had an '85 Westy for years. Seems like they have a plethora of electrical gizmos which tend to act up a bit much, though, and hence, the Subaru conversions. Mine's still original and, amazingly, hasn't given us many problems. Cheers.
@@Thecampervanchannel who knew there were over 20 different companies doing conversions ? I said whoever did this conversion did a nice job since I thought it was home made. After I got title to the 67, the seller said, you want this beat up cabinet ? Sure. It had the sundial tag on it. Mine had gone 175K miles in first 23 years, Eddy parked it for 20 years and I bought 11 years ago. It was my first T1, a tin top walk through.
Thanks so much for this. I adore my TDI converted splitty bus still undergoing restoration but am very excited for my new T3 Vanagon to likely get a 3.6 VR6. I think 280 HP should move it around nicely.
I feel the need to mention that the T1 was designed by Dr. Alfred Haesner, head of technical development, who later designed the Ford FK 1000 and Transit vans.
