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Found in: Rare Buses and Parts  Westfalias   Other pix from BIll Jackson
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BIll Jackson
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I have just recently bought into this whole Spilt screen VW camper thing. This 'little' goddess is a real treasure. She is a very rare 1966 right hand drive production westy imported in to the UK from OZ. The only thing she has had done is a new canvas around the pop up and a recent respray.
 2007-07-13
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Found in: Stand By Your Van  Single Cabs   Other pix from bill
'59 single cab '59 single cab
bill
here is a better picture
 2006-05-24
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recently repainted recently repainted
bill hauck
more photos unless the others didn't make it.
 2006-05-21
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Found in: Bay-Window (68 to 79)  Hall of Shame   Other pix from Mike
AIRS Rescue Trip AIRS Rescue Trip AIRS Rescue Trip AIRS Rescue Trip
Mike
http://www.aaavwclub.com/Forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=507
AIRS is the Aircooled Interstate Rescue Squad, which is a list of vw people willing to help you in a vw emergency. The AIRS list can be found @ www.type2.com The following story is of our recent AIRS rescue of a girl from Pa and her '78 bus who blew the engine in Hays, Kansas on their way to Denver. So friday, we figure out that there isn't a snowflakes chance in hell of getting Tiffany's (girl from PA) bus fixed in the middle of kansas, so we arrange to tow it to Colorado if she'd pay our gas. She said no problem, so at 5am Saturday morning, we hit the road. After dragging our dolly behind the gas guzzeling V8 the 6+ hours to hays and calling Steve R about 10 times, we finally found the shop where the bus was @, but tiffany wasn't anywhere to be found. Called tiffany about 50 times, and if anyone called her, you know that she has about a 2 minute song on her voicemail that gets really annoying after calling it over and over, not to mention burns cell minutes while on roaming... I had talked to her at around 1pm the previous day, and she said they were in CO, but they were heading out to Hays as we spoke and would be there to help us load it up...etc. So we go talk to the mechanic who says they're in CO, I tell him what I just typed, and he said, oh, well here's this OTHER number I have for them. Call the other number, get Tiffany's friend, who tells me that they're still in BOULDER... Fun times. Figure out a plan to leave the bus @ busted bus in boulder and meet up with tiffany later. Pay tiffany's bill @ the mechanic to get it out, load up the bus, and by this time, Steve Reed comes rollin up in a beautiful Blue / White Acupulco Thing. BS'ed a while with Steve, rode in the thing up to wally world to buy (rent) some magnetic trailer lights, as we had forgotten ours. Thanks Steve for the ride in that beautiful VW! Hooked up the bus and made sure it was on the trailer as tight as could be, and said our goodbyes, as we had a long drive back to CO. All went well until about grinell, Ks, where if you remember my trip back from BBBB 2 years ago, is where my '79 blew up the engine... coincidence, I think not. We went over a particularly rough stretch of road, and the bus jerked to the right and all sorts of debris was flying off. We pulled over and found that the right rear tire on the bus had de-laminated. It was literally "throwing gators" and about 30 seconds away of a blow out. The place we pulled over just happened to be a mechanic's shop, and after rounding off the lugnuts that havent been removed in 20 years, we had to employ the services of the mechanic w/ impact wrench to loosten the lugnuts, not to mention the bottle jack he let us borrow because we had forgotten ours. Pulled the tire off and placed the "spare" tire on the drum. The spare looked original as it was a polyester sidewall bias ply with about 30 years worth of dry rot on it. Now the smart thing to do would have been to pull the tire off the front of the bus, which was up on the dolly, put the spare there, and take the front tire and put it on the back. Well I dont claim to be the smartest cookie in the world, plus the bus was parked uphill, and to unload it, change the tire, and load it back up would have been a gigantic PITA, we just did things the easy way. Well, that lasted about 60 miles, when the spare did the same thing as the first tire, and had the tread disintigrate. First, we thought we'd just roll the bus off the trailer and flip it around, putting the back on the dolly and tying the wheel off so it wouldnt move. Soggy spring plates and short trailer ramps laughed @ us on that one, so on to plan B... Fortunately we were in burlington, Co, a town of a little bit of size, and they had a Napa that was open. Remember that bottle Jack I had mentioned earlier? yeah, well we had to break down and buy another jack, roll the bus off the trailer, take the tire off the front and put it off the back, as was the previously mentioned "smart thing to do"... Took the hubcap off the front tire and whaddya know...the lugnuts WONT come off for love or money. After about an hour of hitting them with wd-40 and smacking them with a cold chisel, they finally broke loose, and I broke my spiffy hazet lug wrench that I got from Richard and Dawn @ Jerome last year... have to get me another one now... Changed out the front and rear right side tires, put the bus back off the trailer, chained it down, made sure things were good and tight, and off we went. All went smoothly until we stopped to get gas outside of Denver. Pulled into the gas station and watched the passenger side front tire roll off of the trailer and fall down infront of the dolly. This, remarkably, is the 2nd time that I've had a vw do that on the dolly when pulling into a gas station. We determined that the tire that had lost the tread was leaking air and gradually losing air pressure, causing the ratchet strap to become loose and allowing the tire to roll forward. (this is the part of the story where it came in handy that I'm 6'3" and a cornfed nebraska boy) Dad rolled the truck forward while I put the bus in gear, pulled the e brake, and literally lifted up on the passenger front corner of the bus. Got it back onto the trailer after giving myself a mild hernia, sinched it back down, and hit the road again. Pulled into busted bus' parking lot at around 10pm. Rolled the bus off the trailer, pushed it into a parking space, gave Tiffany, who had met us there the keys, said our goodbyes, and took off. Rolled into home around 11:30 after dealing with night construction traffic on I-25. Unhooked the trailer, went inside, took a shower and went to bed. Another roadtrip from hell. I'm begining to collect those...
 2004-06-30
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1955 School Bus
Bob
1955 School Bus (for sale)
Can you imagine how the US should have look liked with a different kind of Schoolbusses? Besides the huge billboards, the ever lasting Coca-Cola bottle and some grand fastfood-restaurants, it are the huge bright yellow and black striped schoolbusses with their strange flash lights that pop-up in our mind when we think about the typical features of the country of Uncle Sam. In 1955 they tried to change this part of our dreams when our beloved board of directors at Volkswagen Germany decided it was about time to show the US school community how to bring their kids to school in an economical way. After their incredible succes of economical cars in the US they simply thought this was just the next little step... They built a schoolbus prototype to US-specs and shipped it over to New York where it started its promotional tour over the East Coast to the Midwest. There is even still a St-Louis 1955 service sticker at 3167 miles, which made a certain Bill Bowman, who lives up there, pretty wild! But as soon as the brilliant plan came up as soon they discovered real schoolbus drivers only wanted V8 engines and the promotional tour was not the succes they hoped for. So after only a few months they decided to bring the bus back to Germany (Isn't it easy to make that kind of decisions when you have your own ships sailing the Atlantic ocean?). They stored it in a dark corner of the factory and simply forgot it, cardboard was piled up in and around the bus and the corner became even darker... Until in 1988 a clever and well-known enthusiast was looking around in the factory for some goodies or history, by coincidence the dark corner was discovered again... He didn't exactly know what it was, just like the rest of the factory and for the first time the bus changed hands... She was adopted by the Bulli Kartie's Mobiles Museum. BKMM was an initiative from the German Busclub to drive in rare busses all over the country, so the local people had the chance to see all the weird stuff VW ever made. After serving BKMM for quite some years the lucky finder decided to sell the bus to BBT, where it was treated nicely. Being part of Bob's private collection it was very hard to decide putting it for sale, but there are always other and different cars turning up so the time came to change place and move the bus from the left (private collection) to the right (commercial collection) side of the building. That was after Mike Mallemut and his spous had the drive of their lifetime in the BBT-convoy to Bad Camberg 2003! The bus proved to be well roadworthy and it spinned like it must have toured the US in 1955! On the outside you can find the huge 'Schoolbus' panels on the roof, with the special American 'STOP' flash lights, made by the US brand of Yankee! The panels can easily be removed and transported inside the bus, what makes it easier to drive on the highway. As you can see the back of the bus is 'schoolbus'-yellow and there's a nice set of extra taillights. A favorite extra for many is the spacial step which opens as soon as the side cargo doors open and it's even lighted as well! It's a weird feature but always fun to show to people! The trailer hitch is installed later but mid-fiftys period correct, an ultrarare find! It protects the whole back and underside of the bus what's a good thing of course!
 2003-10-15
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01/03/04 josef The story of this school bus seems to have a allure towards the phantastique and can be considered simply ill informed.
The proto type talk can not be accurate, since these type of Volkswagen buses were in service in the US. During my studies at UVA in Charllotesville VA I did come upon a refuse yard which contained two buses of this kind, lever door openers and yellow rear approach were the unusual features of the two beasts, thus this story is simply ill-informed fabrication or a lie. A VW school bus was indeed exported to the US, not as a proto-type but rather as a standard combi. These buses were at arrival converted to US DOT-school bus specs and then sold to various School systems on the eastern US coast.
with regards JOSEF S.











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10/15/03 Mike I am glad you love America as much as we do. And I am sure that Volkswagen forgot about a corner of the factory that they store cars in. And I am also sure they let enthusiasts stroll around the factory treasure hunting. I like the story though.
Found in: Rare Buses and Parts  Customized Buses  Sightings  Double Cabs   Other pix from Bill Tsagrinos

Bill Tsagrinos
Here is a pic of the Stretched Doubl Cab from the 60's by The BEETLE BARN in las vegas. Justin is the lucky guy who gets to drive it
 2003-10-12
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My bus on Freemont street My bus on Freemont street My bus on Freemont street
Bill Tsagrinos
http://www.lasvegasvwclub.com

 2003-10-12
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10/13/03 thom Clever shot!
Found in: Customized Buses  Deluxes   Other pix from Bill Tsagrinos
Here is a pic with the wheels back from the polish shop. Here is a pic with the wheels back from the polish shop. Here is a pic with the wheels back from the polish shop.
Bill Tsagrinos

 2003-05-27
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Here my newist addition to the Vegas scene Here my newist addition to the Vegas scene Here my newist addition to the Vegas scene Here my newist addition to the Vegas scene Here my newist addition to the Vegas scene Here my newist addition to the Vegas scene
Bill Tsagrinos

 2003-05-12
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Getting it ready for the classic Getting it ready for the classic Getting it ready for the classic
Bill Tsagrinos
Still have to get the interior finished.
 2003-04-22
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three little pigs three little pigs three little pigs
Bill Tsagrinos
Las Vegas busses
 2003-03-23
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944 Brakes on all 4 corners 944 Brakes on all 4 corners 944 Brakes on all 4 corners
Bill Tsagrinos
Here are the brakes that should stop that motor
 2003-03-16
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Trying to decided which wheels to use Trying to decided which wheels to use
Bill Tsagrinos
I picked these wheels up in Pomona 1-19-03 I think im going to run these instead of my BRM's
 2003-01-26 (82.94k)
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Project $100.00 bus gets its Type 4 powerplant Project $100.00 bus gets its Type 4 powerplant
Bill Tsagrinos
Complete with red carbon fiber shroud and Porsche Fan
 2003-01-16 (101.54k)
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09/06/03 Dan Mikal Sr. A very cool looking engine. Can you give some details, manufactured parts, painting, exhaust design. What's with the obvious fan - engine cooling or heater source or ?. Is it the original engine?
01/26/03 Bill Tsagrinos It's my bus & I bought it for $100.00 about 2 years ago. This is the progress so far.
01/27/03 RSW It says. . .

"Project $100.00 bus gets its Type 4 powerplant"

Which I read as he's putting that engine in his bus that he bought for $100.

How do you get "buy a $100 bus and get this beutiful Engine" out of that?
01/25/03 Tim What's the deal with the statement with the picture?? Sounded like buy a $100 bus and get this beutiful Engine!!! If so, let me know which mental hospital you're at and I'll be right down!! That was a joke!! But Holy Cow!! That's a beutiful engine!! LMK!
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Bill Tsagrinos
2 tone dash
 2002-12-24 (404.62k)
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