I've owned four of those darn things, had my 63 down most of the bad dirt roads of Baja in search of waves and tromped all over Australia in a 77. One day I met a Landcruiser guy in the eighties, bought one and never looked back. That video brings back memories and some residual ptsd
Awesome seeing these old rigs! I grew up in one back in 1970-75 In Hollywood CA, after his return from Vietnam, we went all over CA, AZ, Baja. Lots of great memories...VW!
It's fantastic to see so many of these old busses still out and about. I still miss my old 1966 bus that took me half way round Australia and i still kick myself for ever having sold it now the ones still around are stupid prices. Thaanks for taking the vid
*Thanks for taking me almost 60 years back in time, where I started as a 13 y old kid, having my [adoptive] dad teaching me the magic of driving, in our grayish-beige, '62 split window transporter!* (What I remember most vividly, is driving _alone_ - at fourteen, on a crispy night, on snow covered Norwegian country roads, with the snowflakes in the headlights coming towards me, _ohhh,_ what memories! . . . ) Thanks for sharing you guys! 🙏
I had a 1977 bus sure was a fun vehicle. When I was like 22 years old I took off one summer on a cross country camping trip from Pa to Montana and back it was the time of my life. One of those things you can do when you are young and have no responsibilities to speak of. This reminded me of that trip and sent me looking at old photos. Thanks
Das einfach nur zu beobachten ist schon ein schönes Gefühl. Ich hatte vor 35 Jahren einen VW T-2, Bj. 1975, mit Hochdach und Hochschiebetür, allerdings war innen nur 174 cm hoch. Schöne Grüße nach Amerika aus Hannover
This video stumbled into my feed, somehow. I ended up watching it to its conclusion. I found it amazing that you could get this many old VW buses together in one spot and then take them offroad. Great comaraderie! I almost never see any on the road. I always thought these had been gobbled up by collectors and restored, yet her are some that look beat, but damn, you guys are having fun with them. Maybe add a little voice over where everyone is pulled to the side of the road explaing the reason why i.e. "We stopped because the engines needed to cool", and/or add something at the end presenting the number of break downs and what they were as well as how many started and how many finished. Who drove the farthest. It would be easy to make a documentary on this event. I am just amazed you guys could climbe all those mountain roads and not overheat. Loved the video.
What a beautiful video, I belong to WetWesties and we do campouts 1-2 times a month all year. Many Bus's and Vanagon's, I am owned by STORMY an 87 Vanagon Westfalia Camper and have had her for 14 years. Thank You for putting together such a beautiful and interesting movie. ☯️
I had a 74 bus camper.The top popped up for additional sleeping and had a fold down bed in the rear. Bought it used in the 90's. Still had bug screens for all the front windows. Drove it to Nothern Upper Michigan and Canada to go camping.Since it had all the engine weight on the rear wheels, I could drive it on many 2 track old logging roads, it had good traction. 2000 CC engine, automatic.
GREAT video! Wonderful O'l buses. I had a mint 71 hardtop Westy that we drove up Thomas Mt in So Cal...pretty rough road, took our time and when we arrived at the top there was a Jeep Jamboree going on. They were not to stoked to see a VW bus make it all the way to the top. My favorite vehicle. Thank you for the memories!
I don't know what it is about those little VW buses, but they are so damn cool and I've kinda always wanted one.. I had no idea that you guys grouped up like this, which adds a whole new layer of nerdy coolness to this whole thing it's really got my considering picking one up!!
Aqui no Brazil essas kombis são conhecidas como corujinhas e já são raras....muitas foram exportadas pelo alto preço que atingiram e praticamente sumiram....tenho uma 99 e fiz dela uma kombi-home moro nela há 7 anos.....nunca fui tão feliz em minha vida......
Nice to see all of these old buses on the roads. Where did you camp with this large crew? It would be nice if you could drop in a map of your route too.
Nice caravan honest footage! love they are used and NOT just show vans...lol. Jay leno's stuff.. but he has a sweet collection! awesome footage.... I had a 1990 Vanagan... 1300 bought it clean!! nice.. unknown miles.. not a westy!.. (too expensive and loved what I had for few years.. did some upgrades in late 90's, inch lift, truck off-road tires, water tank, extra gas n full spare.. it was white, with a sweet ground effects, cool stock rims, n matching light grey interior, 2.0 liquid cooled.. built a nice rooftop rack with deck to sit on top,,, when near lake/ scenery! collapsable ladder, portable heat.. nice cooler, radio/ cassette n cb radio ! ... as prior to internet!! n smart shit! affordable cell phones or portable solar... (had secondary marine battery when running charged for lights other, gas oven, extra storage Went to upper MI, some off-road as your video shows! wish I had a digital cam back then... just film! , n distal film in 2000's... Loved sleeping next to Lake Superior, n neighborhood stealthy with the white block out drapes.. driving was a pleasure!! moved with my siamese cat! and mtb bike, large ass old school stereo.. Carver, amp receiver n Klipsch speakers, n amp. kayak, n snowboards... camping gear.. yakima space case w stuff... made it to CO... up the grade to summit county! was overheating so pulled off.... changed direction to NM... even though high altitude was 115-12000 ft.. altitude.... beyond full weight made it at 20 mph.... up the grade, n a couple motels made it to CA southern county.. Ca,ped in the deserts there, offloaded small mountain byways... jeep trails and mammoth lakes during some snow storms.. was an auto!!.. not a stick even. but died a slow death n gave it up for couple used cars before getting a 07 tacoma reg. cab 4x4, 2.7L stick! n a camper back..larger tires, n some extras that I still drive, w only 100k miles... love that truck! but miss the Van!! lol. prior to the Vanagon... had a 73 FJ=40... lift larger tires lift n 3 gas tanks n lights... good internal heater. camped midwest winter n simmer off-road!! khaki with white top and wagon wheel rims... classic!! 327 swapped out for 6 mated to the stock 3 Spd... from orig. owner. MISS that rig as well!! a beauty as the 90 Vamagan .. and the 07 tacoma will have another 100 plus miles till it disintegrates! only new vehicle I bought in CA. now in MN! Cheers to all of you off road camping old timers! as myself! Ric, MN/US
In the 1970s my father owned a 1966 or '67 Westphalia camper (not sure what year, but when I went online, I saw plenty of Westies from those years that looked a lot what my father owned) and I loved riding in it as a small child. The VW he owned was in similar condition to the ones seen in this video. Sadly, my father got rid of his in 1979 as it was breaking down and my father was anything but a mechanic. It's safe to say it's likely my father's old VW has since been rusting away in a junkyard.
I’d love a bus one day. I’ve owned a lot of cool cars but I’ve never acquired the one I really want and would buy in order to keep. Someday soon hopefully
YOU HAVE A NEW PASSIONATE SUBSCRIBER!!! Thank you so very much for sharing all of this with the world. I have been living vicariously for about six years at least now the many trails, tribulations and successes of the SST. I very much hope that I can attend this wonderful Mt. Shasta Snow adventure 2026 after preparation of a velvet green Westfalia rusted out old rat rod summer 2025. I am curious as I long ago drove my father's Saab 9000 turbo into a pond as a stupid high school kid and totally fiend the hot piston rings thus losing all compression and toasting the engine, how did the same not happen to at least three of these machines bogged down over impossible and insane river crossing? Did the engines hydrolock? Was it possible to somehow drain all the water, oil (and coolant, hahaha!) and then simply pull the spark plugs, crank over the the engines and just continue without issue for many thousands of more miles??? How many in the trip carry spare engines and/or transmissions for WHEN not if they fail? I AM SO EXCITED TO JOIN ALL OF YOU. YOWZA!!!
Hope you can make it to the trip one day! I know a few folks bring spare engines. We’re in a single cab so we’re able to fit quite a bit in the treasure chest. If they stall in the water I think most folks take out the spark plugs so they don’t hydro lock. I know quite a few of the busses at least made it home after passing the deepest crossing
That is a buoy on a power line. In some areas where powerlines cross a valley etc, the power company will put buoys on the line so aircraft can see them.
I grew up in Dunsmuir and Klamath Falls and the washboard on those dirt roads will bounce your rig right off the road if you don’t watch it, I don’t want to imagine the damage it did to all your suspension links and bushings.
During the '70s I had a'59 single cab with a 40 horse, a '65 with a 1600 and a '68'.Traded the '68 for a '65 Ford 1/2 ton with a 390 and three 20-gallon gas tanks.
Hola muchas felicidades por el video es fantástico, me pregunto ha zona es oregon , Washington, alaska, california o iaho . Saludos des de España Europa tengo muchas ganas de hacer un viaje con mi land rover defender gracias Saludos .
Where I live, Palo Alto California, You don't see many split window VWs. But when I do see one more often than not it's been restored like something from Gabriel Iglesias garage. But you wouldn't take a show car on a trip like this. My guess is that in the future the unrestored vans will be a rarity.
@@steveholley9508 I wouldn't say that. Those old vans deserve to be kept running. But if that isn't possible they deserve one last adventure before the trip to the junkyard.
I've owned four of those darn things, had my 63 down most of the bad dirt roads of Baja in search of waves and tromped all over Australia in a 77. One day I met a Landcruiser guy in the eighties, bought one and never looked back. That video brings back memories and some residual ptsd
Awesome seeing these old rigs! I grew up in one back in 1970-75 In Hollywood CA, after his return from Vietnam, we went all over CA, AZ, Baja. Lots of great memories...VW!
It's fantastic to see so many of these old busses still out and about. I still miss my old 1966 bus that took me half way round Australia and i still kick myself for ever having sold it now the ones still around are stupid prices. Thaanks for taking the vid
Same 67 camper -won a cple shows and shines with it--sold 3500.00 lol
@@uptone12111 ha, I got $400 😕
Left my vw bus in Hawaii dew to floor pan break line rust.
The vw split and Bay is not made for off road ! Not 4×4 q😢
The camping trips my son and I took in our bus can never be forgotten!
*Thanks for taking me almost 60 years back in time, where I started as a 13 y old kid, having my [adoptive] dad teaching me the magic of driving, in our grayish-beige, '62 split window transporter!*
(What I remember most vividly, is driving _alone_ - at fourteen, on a crispy night, on snow covered Norwegian country roads, with the snowflakes in the headlights coming towards me, _ohhh,_ what memories! . . . )
Thanks for sharing you guys! 🙏
More good times than bad in my ol’ 66 Westfalia camper van with a pop top. I miss it so much! Great video!
Great now I want to join you guys next time. Thank you for documenting this great trip.
I had a 1977 bus sure was a fun vehicle. When I was like 22 years old I took off one summer on a cross country camping trip from Pa to Montana and back it was the time of my life. One of those things you can do when you are young and have no responsibilities to speak of. This reminded me of that trip and sent me looking at old photos. Thanks
Really enjoyed that. What an adventure route you took. Watched every minute. Thanks for sharing.
Das einfach nur zu beobachten ist schon ein schönes Gefühl. Ich hatte vor 35 Jahren einen VW T-2, Bj. 1975, mit Hochdach und Hochschiebetür, allerdings war innen nur 174 cm hoch.
Schöne Grüße nach Amerika aus Hannover
Awesome, I've never thought seeing as many T1s in a single convoy 🤙
These T1 are so cool 😃 The 20th bus in the row even still has a german license plate of Steinfurt county, my old homeland 😁
Great Video! That looks like a really great trip. Thanks for sharing.
This video stumbled into my feed, somehow. I ended up watching it to its conclusion. I found it amazing that you could get this many old VW buses together in one spot and then take them offroad. Great comaraderie! I almost never see any on the road. I always thought these had been gobbled up by collectors and restored, yet her are some that look beat, but damn, you guys are having fun with them. Maybe add a little voice over where everyone is pulled to the side of the road explaing the reason why i.e. "We stopped because the engines needed to cool", and/or add something at the end presenting the number of break downs and what they were as well as how many started and how many finished. Who drove the farthest. It would be easy to make a documentary on this event. I am just amazed you guys could climbe all those mountain roads and not overheat. Loved the video.
Thanks for sharing this trip.
I have a VW bus type one in Brazil.
Wow this is a real adventure ❤ Greetings from Romania!
i would love to have a vw bus . if i was rich i would still love to have one . i think there cool looking .
What a beautiful video, I belong to WetWesties and we do campouts 1-2 times a month all year. Many Bus's and Vanagon's, I am owned by STORMY an 87 Vanagon Westfalia Camper and have had her for 14 years. Thank You for putting together such a beautiful and interesting movie. ☯️
Love it! Thanks for bringing us along
I had a 74 bus camper.The top popped up for additional sleeping and had a fold down bed in the rear. Bought it used in the 90's. Still had bug screens for all the front windows. Drove it to Nothern Upper Michigan and Canada to go camping.Since it had all the engine weight on the rear wheels, I could drive it on many 2 track old logging roads, it had good traction. 2000 CC engine, automatic.
Nice to see old splittys that haven't been Jerry Seinfelded to perfection. Perfect nostalgia for my 1958 $50 bus I had in 71.
Aqui no brasil esses modelos de kombi clássico é chamada de corujinha. Pra mim é o modelo mais bonito. Aventura top desses caras. Barabens a todos.
Combi en Mexico 🇲🇽
Awesome job on the video.
Thank you!!
GREAT video! Wonderful O'l buses. I had a mint 71 hardtop Westy that we drove up Thomas Mt in So Cal...pretty rough road, took our time and when we arrived at the top there was a Jeep Jamboree going on. They were not to stoked to see a VW bus make it all the way to the top. My favorite vehicle. Thank you for the memories!
thank you for this great video. Greetings from Germany.😀
Perjalanan yg mengasikan menyenangkan bikin hati senang salam dari 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
Awesome video!!!😊
Thank you!!
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これほどの台数のT2が集まっているのを初めて見ました。しかも道具として使い込んでいるのが素敵です。ありがとうございます！
That was epic trip thanks for taking me with you through the journey just majestic views
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Where are you at buddy?
I don't know what it is about those little VW buses, but they are so damn cool and I've kinda always wanted one.. I had no idea that you guys grouped up like this, which adds a whole new layer of nerdy coolness to this whole thing it's really got my considering picking one up!!
What a cool trip . Thanks for the video
Fun and interesting trip and video; thanks for sharing.
Rock on windshield …too close …just sayin’
Awesome vid, sharing.
fantastic tour congratulations to those involved 👍
Nice Production.................You guys know all the Goat paths.
Parabéns pela aventura e pelo vídeo! Show. Quando era criança, andava com meu pai e uma dessas, na versão pick-up. 1972. Saudações do Brasil.
So cool awesome
Aqui no Brazil essas kombis são conhecidas como corujinhas e já são raras....muitas foram exportadas pelo alto preço que atingiram e praticamente sumiram....tenho uma 99 e fiz dela uma kombi-home moro nela há 7 anos.....nunca fui tão feliz em minha vida......
Well done guys, thanks for sharing! 💯
Nice to see all of these old buses on the roads. Where did you camp with this large crew? It would be nice if you could drop in a map of your route too.
This was awesome thanks for sharing!!
We called them
COMBIS🎉
In Mexico 🇲🇽
❤❤❤hermoso video 🎉🎉
nice footage, thanks
Nice caravan honest footage! love they are used and NOT just show vans...lol. Jay leno's stuff.. but he has a sweet collection! awesome footage....
I had a 1990 Vanagan... 1300 bought it clean!! nice.. unknown miles.. not a westy!.. (too expensive and loved what I had for few years.. did some upgrades in late 90's, inch lift, truck off-road tires, water tank, extra gas n full spare.. it was white, with a sweet ground effects, cool stock rims, n matching light grey interior, 2.0 liquid cooled.. built a nice rooftop rack with deck to sit on top,,, when near lake/ scenery! collapsable ladder, portable heat.. nice cooler, radio/ cassette n cb radio ! ... as prior to internet!! n smart shit! affordable cell phones or portable solar... (had secondary marine battery when running charged for lights other, gas oven, extra storage
Went to upper MI, some off-road as your video shows! wish I had a digital cam back then... just film! , n distal film in 2000's...
Loved sleeping next to Lake Superior, n neighborhood stealthy with the white block out drapes.. driving was a pleasure!!
moved with my siamese cat! and mtb bike, large ass old school stereo.. Carver, amp receiver n Klipsch speakers, n amp. kayak, n snowboards... camping gear.. yakima space case w stuff... made it to CO... up the grade to summit county! was overheating so pulled off.... changed direction to NM... even though high altitude was 115-12000 ft.. altitude.... beyond full weight made it at 20 mph.... up the grade, n a couple motels made it to CA southern county..
Ca,ped in the deserts there, offloaded small mountain byways... jeep trails and mammoth lakes during some snow storms..
was an auto!!.. not a stick even. but died a slow death n gave it up for couple used cars before getting a 07 tacoma reg. cab 4x4, 2.7L stick! n a camper back..larger tires, n some extras that I still drive, w only 100k miles... love that truck! but miss the Van!! lol.
prior to the Vanagon... had a 73 FJ=40... lift larger tires lift n 3 gas tanks n lights... good internal heater. camped midwest winter n simmer off-road!! khaki with white top and wagon wheel rims... classic!! 327 swapped out for 6 mated to the stock 3 Spd... from orig. owner. MISS that rig as well!! a beauty as the 90 Vamagan .. and the 07 tacoma will have another 100 plus miles till it disintegrates! only new vehicle I bought in CA. now in MN!
Cheers to all of you off road camping old timers! as myself!
Ric,
MN/US
A bunch came through Moab a week ago. I flashed them all a peace sign!
It must had been fun and I can only envy all of you. ❤❤❤❤
Excelente, hermosos VW !! Saludos desde Argentina.
In the 1970s my father owned a 1966 or '67 Westphalia camper (not sure what year, but when I went online, I saw plenty of Westies from those years that looked a lot what my father owned) and I loved riding in it as a small child. The VW he owned was in similar condition to the ones seen in this video. Sadly, my father got rid of his in 1979 as it was breaking down and my father was anything but a mechanic. It's safe to say it's likely my father's old VW has since been rusting away in a junkyard.
That was a fast 42 minutes…..very cool🇺🇸😇
Great vid! Would you share the route? It looks like a really fun drive. 😎
I never knew the route you people traverse. Pretty knarly. I only se your crew in Mt Shasta city every year at the vet's club..
a bucketlisted trip for me definitely!!!!
Looks like a pretty good turn out 👍🏻
I found it very interesting, here in Brazil there could also be expeditions like this.
I bought VW parts there back in the 70s, when it was Northern Baja and Bug. Parkview ave.
I’d love a bus one day. I’ve owned a lot of cool cars but I’ve never acquired the one I really want and would buy in order to keep. Someday soon hopefully
YOU HAVE A NEW PASSIONATE SUBSCRIBER!!! Thank you so very much for sharing all of this with the world.
I have been living vicariously for about six years at least now the many trails, tribulations and successes of the SST. I very much hope that I can attend this wonderful Mt. Shasta Snow adventure 2026 after preparation of a velvet green Westfalia rusted out old rat rod summer 2025.
I am curious as I long ago drove my father's Saab 9000 turbo into a pond as a stupid high school kid and totally fiend the hot piston rings thus losing all compression and toasting the engine, how did the same not happen to at least three of these machines bogged down over impossible and insane river crossing? Did the engines hydrolock? Was it possible to somehow drain all the water, oil (and coolant, hahaha!) and then simply pull the spark plugs, crank over the the engines and just continue without issue for many thousands of more miles???
How many in the trip carry spare engines and/or transmissions for WHEN not if they fail?
I AM SO EXCITED TO JOIN ALL OF YOU. YOWZA!!!
Hope you can make it to the trip one day! I know a few folks bring spare engines. We’re in a single cab so we’re able to fit quite a bit in the treasure chest. If they stall in the water I think most folks take out the spark plugs so they don’t hydro lock. I know quite a few of the busses at least made it home after passing the deepest crossing
This was one of the best video yet , Looks like a lot of fun man .
Parabéns pela aventura com as Kombi, 🇧🇷👏👍
Where did they start and where they going
Started in Mendocino county California and going to mount Shasta
So schön diese unrestaurierten Bullis in Aktion zu sehen!
Danke!
More VWbusses than in the whole of Germany
.???😮
Man that looks like such fun!!!!
What is that ball shaped thing in the air at 28:14?
I'm glad someone else spotted that. I thought I was the only one, as no one else has commented on it!
That is a buoy on a power line. In some areas where powerlines cross a valley etc, the power company will put buoys on the line so aircraft can see them.
Adventure...to meet an eternal moment
I grew up in Dunsmuir and Klamath Falls and the washboard on those dirt roads will bounce your rig right off the road if you don’t watch it, I don’t want to imagine the damage it did to all your suspension links and bushings.
I’d like to know the route you took. I recognize all of it but it seems like they are out of order in my head.
We usually start south of Clearlake California and just drive on a bunch of fire roads through the Mendocino forest towards mount shasta
The vibe is real
36 of-the fun loven 36 HP original, nice ,if that could be achieved, wouldn’t that be amazing slow ridding, lol thanks BigAl California.❤❤
Where is it at
Northern California
@@jakeandcameron7022 hey
@@jakeandcameron7022 what was the dirt backroad that you took? I live in Mount Shasta and saw you guys going down the road. Quite the sight! ✌
Since he has recently passed gotta say it 'you got yourselves a convoy '
How do you know winter is finnaly over? Vw drivers aren't scraping the inside of the windshield. Still have my 65 bug 45 years later.
I keep wondering where all the classic cars are are comin' from!!
Vídeo show...
Very nice. Can you tell me the name of the song what playes from around 12:00 to 14:00? Thank you
During the '70s I had a'59 single cab with a 40 horse, a '65 with a 1600 and a '68'.Traded the '68 for a '65 Ford 1/2 ton with a 390 and three 20-gallon gas tanks.
There's no denying that the vintage VW vans have a very special allure.
I had a '66 red with the spare tire mounted on the front.
Great❤🔥👑👌
Love it 👍🏼
Muito belo ❤❤❤ Brasil
Qual a origem de vcs?
show de viagem
Hola muchas felicidades por el video es fantástico, me pregunto ha zona es oregon , Washington, alaska, california o iaho . Saludos des de España Europa tengo muchas ganas de hacer un viaje con mi land rover defender gracias Saludos .
MT Shasta is in Calafornia acording to a quick google
@@journeymanadventure thank you
You guys took those icy curves near the end of the video faster than I would have.
Cool
Gilla dela prenumerera på programmet 😃
Obviously after the fires!!
was the fella with the bad transmission able to finish out the trip
No I don’t think so
never seen so many splittees
Where I live, Palo Alto California, You don't see many split window VWs. But when I do see one more often than not it's been restored like something from Gabriel Iglesias garage. But you wouldn't take a show car on a trip like this. My guess is that in the future the unrestored vans will be a rarity.
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Life vw....😎👍
20-30 ни у кого ума не хватило, что надо ехать медленно)))
Wow
Oh I’m sure my ol pal Loren was there.
vw bus club ❎
vw bus family club ✅
The road looks pretty sketchy in places. I'm not so sure I'd want to risk it if I didn't have 4 wheel drive.
These are better than 4x4 if you know how to drive.
A bunch of stoners that don't have a clue
@@steveholley9508 I wouldn't say that. Those old vans deserve to be kept running. But if that isn't possible they deserve one last adventure before the trip to the junkyard.