Das Volks Vintage Volkswagen Gruppe

So on the Saturday before the hurricane when everybody was out trying to buy water and D batteries, I was out buying a bus. This is a 1965 13 window deluxe with 67,139 miles on it. I purchased it from the original owner who bought it new in 1965. It was located in their summer house so the bus never saw a winter and was kept in the same garage until I pulled it out. It came with lots of paper work and is ridiculously original. Here are some pics and a link to alot more :
http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s203 ... ?start=all

nice jim. Whats the plan with this one?

Raj wrote:nice jim. Whats the plan with this one?

What do you think?

very nice Jim, best of luck with it.

Very, very cool bus. I love the old window/bumper stickers, and that interior... Beautiful!

nice!

Interior is so nice...

whats the story with the roof dents?

thanks for letting me take it for a spin...next time I'll have my camera

gotboost79 wrote:nice!

Interior is so nice...

whats the story with the roof dents?

Funny you should ask. The mother was coming back from visiting her daughter in college in 1969. On a highway in Ohio she was cut off and put the bus on it's side. It slid on the road for a couple of hundred feet apparently and the dent on the roof is from the guard rail on the highway. A couple of truckers stopped, flipped the bus back upright, and she drove home. I have the repair order from July of 69 for the repairs done. It still has scrapes on the passenger rear quarter by the vents.

realbluefoot wrote: On a highway in Ohio she was cut off and put the bus on it's side. It slid on the road for a couple of hundred feet apparently and the dent on the roof is from the guard rail on the highway. A couple of truckers stopped, flipped the bus back upright, and she drove home.

Great story, there's no keeping a VW down!!

Great looking bus Jim.

Welcome to the Bus world! How is the engine? Is the steering loose or tight? Looks great. Good luck!

realbluefoot wrote:

gotboost79 wrote:nice!

Interior is so nice...

whats the story with the roof dents?

It slid on the road for a couple of hundred feet

She didn't get cut off, the wind blew her over ... maybe several feet. The only way a VW could slide that long is if it's being towed!!

Bigtonkakid wrote:

realbluefoot wrote:

gotboost79 wrote:nice!

Interior is so nice...

whats the story with the roof dents?

It slid on the road for a couple of hundred feet

She didn't get cut off, the wind blew her over ... maybe several feet. The only way a VW could slide that long is if it's being towed!!

You cut off the last word of my sentence in that quote...."apparently". I wasn't there. In fact I wasn't even born yet. It happened so long ago, Glenn R was still young. Maybe you're right but it's still a pretty cool story.

So I have been driving the hell out of my bus since September and have put over 2300 miles on it. Most recently I took a trip up to Buffalo, NY with my three brothers. We did about 1100 miles in the 3 day trip with only 1 minor breakdown. Luckily I had lots of tools and parts with me so we were back on the road in 5-10 minutes. After that trip I decided to give the bus some TLC. I even ordered some new parts from WW which came today. This is what I did so far:

New Side View Mirror and clamp


New exhaust pipe (the old one fell off on the NY Thruway on the way home).


A new door strap (note the condition of the original next to it).


And after 46 years on the road................SEATBELTS!


Next on the list is the not so fun stuff:
New axle boots, drain and refill transaxle and gear reduction boxes, new brake shoes and hardware, ignition tune up, rebuild and install original fuel pump, fix electric choke on the carburetor, and finally an oil change and another valve adjustment. Over the winter I am having some sealing wax red paint made up in a spray can and I will spray the passenger door which is in primer (and has been since 1969).

Awesome Jim... its a very cool bus

realbluefoot wrote:Most recently I took a trip up to Buffalo, NY with my three brothers.

Ah, man. So close, so close...

Have you thought about hitting the primer with oven cleaner and 000 steal wool to see what's left of the original paint on the door?

Don't know how bad it was scratched up when it flipped, but it would be fun to see.

williamblanda wrote:Have you thought about hitting the primer with oven cleaner and 000 steal wool to see what's left of the original paint on the door?

Don't know how bad it was scratched up when it flipped, but it would be fun to see.

The door was replaced with a green one under the primer so it needs to be re-sprayed. I took the primer off of the cargo doors with grafitti remover and 0000 steel wool and it worked great. The paint underneath was mint, I don't know why they covered it in primer to begin with.

since jim has been slacking...

Nice pic Jim..... Or.... Uh..... John.