You could buy this Volkswagen Type 2 T2 Camper! 

My father had an early Mitsubishi L300 Van in 1981 for test drive, to close the sliding door you needed only a finger tip. The Bully you had to hang with two arms into the movement and a moment later it plopped right back and was open again. Regards from a Wolfsburg guy

Sadly, I can't afford a decent car, let alone a decent camper.

And Miss Hubnut, of course

Indeed...they produced a absolutely staggering..54 bhp and did have a rather thirsty behavior.😂.

As Ian said, pancake engines fitted to bay windows as an option from the early seventies, initially 1.7L, rising to 2L fuel injected in the late seventies. 👍

@@christhomas131 Sorry thought he meant the actual T4. I didn't know T2's were available with the pancake engines

Pancake engines were from the Type 4, not the T4.

I am told you get the same sensation in the Commer "forward control" vans that used to be so common on our roads.

@Paul Fellows I don't disagree. Odd story about one. I was rebuilding an engine on a weekend when my cousin showed up and asked if I could go look at a 74 bus for his neighbors. He rarely asked anything and the crankshaft bolt had just broken off on me while torquing, had a crack in it and I couldn't get the shaft out of the crank. We get to the VW and the story is that the battery goes dead overnight with everything off. These elderly folks had a son who had managed a Pizza restaurant and he developed terminal brain cancer. The bus was his and he was in a hospice near his final stages and he wanted to see his bus again before he died. I started checking it over, in the US the 72s and up had the type IV engine and they had an electric blower fan above the engine to give heat when stopped in traffic etc. Whenever I connected the battery a relay on this blower activated and this was what was draining the battery. But what controlled it? I checked under the dash for a while and found a wire that was unplugged and brushing against metal, and then I found a plug for it on the red heater controls. I moved it to there and it would only activate when the lever was at max with the ignition on. Problem solved! They drove it to their son who got to see it before he passed. I returned home and got ready to figure out a way to remove the bolt shaft and I touched the end with my finger and it turned! I was able to unscrew it easily and I had a new bolt so I finished my rebuild. But I swear that before I went to help those folks that it was stuck tight.

Entirely different vehicles really, despite the engine link. A Dutch importer is credited with the idea for a Beetle-based van.

Think he was called Ben Pon or something like this? They still have a Barndoor meeting in his honour but that’s another level of geeky and even less Hubnut that this bay window.

I believe the Beetle's rear IRS suspension in the US was a reaction to the concern about rear engined vehicles stirred up by Ralph Nader's book "Unsafe at any speed".