What a day, started in Vegas, ended in a RV park somewhere on route 66, saw some awesome man made stuff, collected another VW, the guy had a goatee beard like AL, turned in the very reliable Ford Focus, went shopping, bought some food and camping stuff, started the journey, figured out the bus was not as powerful as the drag bus, probably overheated the engine climbing an ever so slight incline, found route 66 which was cool, but then broke down, and then broke down again, but then eventually found an RV park – with cell phone coverage -
gallery pics enjoy
Posts Tagged ‘VW’
Day one pictures – Havasu trip
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009VW bus at the drag strip
Friday, April 10th, 2009Family outing to Farmington ‘fast times’ VW show, we took the drag bus and made 3 passses – fun fun fun. All smiles (mostly), it was cold during the night but the sun eventually came out and warmed us up.
VW 1971 westfalia
Saturday, February 14th, 2009Bought this from Bustoration out in Lake Havasu through ebay. Sight unseen Ronnie said it was a sound vehicle and when pressed to see if it would make the cross country trip to Charlotte he said “sure why not”. A plan was hatched…
The Finished Bus
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Some pictures of the finished bus, this was on sale on Samba for 6 days before sold, lots of detailing and a beutiful Carolina spring day for the pictures to turn out nice
Finishing Touches
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007We wanted to keep rust at bay and with the intention of driving it every day we chose to paint the entire underside in POR 15. This means we need a good surface to paint to, so after about 100 hours of scraping, washing, sanding etc we got to the finished state – should last a good while. (more…)
Running Gear
Saturday, January 6th, 2007Anibal Chico www.steelbuggin.com built this 1776 long block with a new case, new heads, C25 cam for torque, with a deep sump and full flowed for oil filtering. We then added powder coated German doghouse tin, new Sachs clutch, powder coated intake manifold, and even tracked down a complete 38A (68-71 bus) generator – so we could run some extra music at some stage. (more…)
Paint & Upholstery
Monday, November 6th, 2006This is 1 day old coming out of the paint booth, inside painted, top painted, then the lower and finally as we see here 2 coats of clear ;
Pre Paint – 2
Saturday, May 6th, 2006We thought long and hard about the final color combo – it was tempting to make it an all lotus white deluxe as she was originally but.. we settled for a titian red / grey combo. (more…)
Ragtop
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005Originally from Alabama this is an early 63 model year ragtop. Pearl white originally she now sports some funky primer. We bought this locally in Huntersville, NC from the guy who had rescued it from the salvage place – quite the journey..
Pre Paint-1
Sunday, June 26th, 2005Final touches before painting.
We stripped the bus and then shipped her to the Raleigh NC.