Green Outside & Sunny Inside
Volkswagen Camper and Commercial|Issue 154
“Many childhood summers were spent on caravanning holidays in Europe, where occasionally an aunt & uncle would join the family in their VW Vanagon Westfalia”.
Dave Richards
Green Outside & Sunny Inside

I always thought they drove the coolest bus ever, way cooler than my parents’ caravan and these memories planted the seeds of my obsession with this generation of Volkswagen”.

In May 2015 Tom Richards made the move from Sheffield out to Whistler, BC to live the mountain bike dream. He spent his first 6 months enjoying the extreme mountain biker lifestyle before his 2 year work visa kicked in and he moved to Vancouver to experience ‘real’ Canadian life.

“A few months after moving to the city, I met my girlfriend Fiona and our first trip together as a couple was to Tofino, a small fishing and surfing village on the West coast of Vancouver Island. It was a really hot summer weekend so we stopped off in one of the river swimming pools that you can see from the road to Tofino.

“I vividly remember that we both looked over towards the highway at exactly the same time as a green VW Vanagon Westfalia drove over the bridge. There was just something so special about a little green Westfalia puttering along the road that I couldn’t shake that image out of my head. Fiona and I had been talking previously about how much we’d love to buy a campervan, but had always assumed that they’d be way out of our budget. We looked up prices on craigslist when we got home and were pleasantly surprised. Although the best examples were still way out of our budget, we decided to save up...

“The following April, I was on my way to Fiona’s apartment when I stumbled upon a Volkswagen repair and restoration garage on a street I had never driven down before. Parked up in front was this green Vanagon. It was late and the garage was closed, but we called the next day and learned that it was a customer’s vehicle in for some work...

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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.

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Messing About in Boats
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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.”

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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.

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Ruby Red

Since the tender age of just 3, Joanne Dix has been into splitscreen Volkswagens.

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Playing with Fire
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Playing with Fire

‘There we were, all just sitting around the campfire...’

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Four lads take on Le Mans
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Four lads take on Le Mans

We’d had the Le Mans 24 hour race on our bucket list for a long, long time...

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Happy 70th Birthday, Miss Sofie!
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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.

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Sitting on the Dock of the Bay…
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Sitting on the Dock of the Bay…

Lockdown Projects.

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California Dreamin'
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California Dreamin'

The beginning of our second week and we were being treated to a day out...

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Brochure Line - A 2.6 litre T3!
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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

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