In the beginning there was darkness. Wait, wrong story, sorry about that.

The bus came to us via a friend of my wifes who happened to know that we like the VW's. So one day he was doing his route (a UPS driver) and saw an old VW bus sitting on the lot of a rescue mission in Santa Paula, a quick phone call to Mandy, then a call to me, I left early from work, and we took a drive down to check it out. Turns out that we got there just as they were about to close the gates, we got to check out the bus (with out really knowing what we were in for)

Low and behold the first thing that I see are a nice set of safari windows out front (score!) Now, I should say here that I'm no expert when it comes to the ways of the bus, but I knew the basics. So I start looking around for other things, no rust, or very little, very straight body, not perfect, but very good. I can't detect any bondo, floors look awsome, both front, and cargo areas. It had a 40 horse engine, but it did have the correct crank start apron, and it had the original pressed bumpers, those had seen better days, but they were there.

Made a deal with the manager there for $1k and we could take it home. Needless to say, we dropped the cash and ran! Hauled it home the next day, and it has been part of the family ever since. This all went down about 2000 or so.

As of Jan 2009, the bus is up on stands awaiting me to finish off a lowered and narrowed beam, dropped spindles, straight axle kit out back, and a new 2110cc torque motor. Yes, this is ambitious, but what else is there? 

I'll be snapping some pics soon to show it off.

 Matt