"I usually send items the next day, but on this occasion the post office was closed, so because the item only had a few miles to travel I delivered it on my way from work. At this point I didn’t really give any old VW a second glance as I had been completely bored at college by a lad that I had the misfortune to share a ride with for a few weeks back in my late teens”.
The guy to whom Kevin Williams was delivering on that fateful day, Rick, offered to sell ‘Hattie the Frankenbus’. It’s a complete oddity and consists of what appears to be the bodywork of a shortened bay panelvan complete with the narrowest sliding door in the world, but with the rear of a split pick up grafted on. A kind of bay/split triple cab! Like the bus’ owner and many, many other people, I have never seen anything quite like it before or since. It was apparently done a long time ago by an owner who has become lost in the mists of time. There are shades of 1970’s custom about it, and I can only guess that it might have been involved in a biggish shunt. The price Kevin negotiated included the work required to get the bus through a fresh MOT.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Issue 150 من Volkswagen Camper and Commercial.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Issue 150 من Volkswagen Camper and Commercial.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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Lance & Lisa Beaver tell the story of their...‘Old School' Westfalia Bay
The history of our bus is varied. I heard that it used to belong to a soccer player who lived in it for a while, and a tale of a cross country trip that was taken in it. Since we’ve owned it, we have been to numerous car shows with our car club Kahiko Kula and enjoy that immensely, but taking it camping is our joy.
Messing About in Boats
“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
Hector A Cautionary Tale.
We’d wanted a splitscreen bus for years. And first got the bug, after hiring one for a holiday in Cornwall in 2009.
Ruby Red
Since the tender age of just 3, Joanne Dix has been into splitscreen Volkswagens.
Playing with Fire
‘There we were, all just sitting around the campfire...’
Four lads take on Le Mans
We’d had the Le Mans 24 hour race on our bucket list for a long, long time...
Happy 70th Birthday, Miss Sofie!
This T1 Bulli from 1950 is the world’s oldest street-legal VW bus and is kept in VWCV’s Classic Vehicles collection in Hannover.
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay…
Lockdown Projects.
California Dreamin'
The beginning of our second week and we were being treated to a day out...
Brochure Line - A 2.6 litre T3!
Taking a peep at a highly desirable VW Bus few of us will ever see in its ‘Exclusiv’ finery
