Forgotten VW BUS Found & Rescued - Volkswagen Camper Van
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- This was the cheapest VW Bus on FB marketplace at only 500 dollars. The Volkswagen Bus was abandoned on Long Island and vandalized. Let's save it! Rescue the forgotten camper van and see how bad it really is. Bay Window tin top Westy!
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I can’t believe, the bus comes originally from my old hometown in Germany. The sticker on the bus , Gruß aus der Rhön is an indication that the bus is originally from Germany. The Rhön Mountains are a group of low mountains (or Mittelgebirge) in central Germany, located around the border area where the states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia come together. A major city in the area is Fulda, where 1000 of American Soldiers were stationed until the early 90’s. Most likely one of those fellows brought the Bus here to America. Also, the other sticker with the arrow pointing upwards says”Hallo Partner, Danke Schön.” This sticker was around the years from 1971-1974. It was a kind of awareness logo from the German Government to drive safely and cautious.Anyhow, keep up the good show. Love it. Hans
Guten aben 😁
Hans thanks for your interesting reply. FYI there is a Fulda, Ohio. I have been there and it’s in east-central part of the state.
Also my ancestors are from Durmersheim/Baden-Baden. And yes I drive a VW and do so proudly!
I was tempted to add the translation, but your insight is more convincing than what I could've added. Your speculation regarding a soldier is likey spot-on! Grüß aus NRW :)
Just love your running commentary, make me feel like I am there holding the camera for you. Amazed at how you and your friends have a nose for the VW relics. Do appreciate your efforts to salvage these wonders of automative history and start their process for getting them back on the road. Keep it up and good luck.
thank you, i'm happy to hear you enjoyed it. Well i do have a big schnoz and a great sense of smell. Thank you
Easiest going guy on TH-cam, absolute pleasure watching your videos
thank you AG, much appreciated :)
You have a Westy someone gutted and converted to a station wagon. Check out the wood panel headliner and the power outlet on driver's side. You should have an unpainted Westfalia data plate riveted to the partition behind the seat (driver's seat IIRC). Solid roof makes it a "Caravette" (as opposed to pop top "Continental"). Back when I collected, my specialty was 68-71 T2. I do miss them.
Tin top
You are totally killing it lately with the VW rescues! 💪🚐🛟
thank you, having fun :)
Sure it is needy, but is much better than that '68 white Beetle you dragged home recently. That one had popouts and not much more to offer... Bet that bus had an interesting history... My buddy has a '68 Velvet Green double-cab. Lots of fun...
A $500 Bus!! Heck yeah! Bummer about the windows. It rolled easily!!
Have fun at the show!!
Great Condition reminds of 70's recycling ♻️ VW's my 69 Red bug loved them all we Acid dipping mig and tig them. It's a really great color definitely a rare color did have friend who had a bug that same color it was stolen 😢but I never seen a bus with sweet color!!!; )
A good restoration project there, not too bad. We had a ‘67 VW split screen camper in the UK in the 70’s, same colour !, it also become quite rusty on sills. The camper lives on in New Zealand, still on the road after we exported it there.
thank you, i agree....67 wow, nice and it is a great color :)
Always hated working on cars in the rain. A good old Hefty bag raincoat works in a pinch.
That door buffed out nice! Hope to see you at Terryville.
yes, see you Sunday
Cool bus ,
I have a 68/69 Panel van as mentioned in previous comments the early beams have different mounting, I’d say it was a Kombi originally as I believe velvety Green is a commercial colour and the bench seat and walk thru pads are on kombis not just deluxe models then I’d say it went to Wesfalia for a few extra bits like headliner and socket
Great find keep it up
Your backyard shack is cool! If you park the buses on at least three sides, it will be somewhat winter worthy. Of course, if you would just attend those VW Anonymous meetings, Jen maybe will let you back in the house! Dubwerks adds the necessary intellectual validity to your great camera work and clever commentary! Thanks for making the videos and sharing the adventures!
These rescue vids remind me of The good, The bad and the ugly. The `ol bus is solid and rolls. Good way to start.
Thank goodness you're talking again. There's a reason silent movies went away... Your banter makes it the best
Thx for saving another bus! Here in Germany, you would have to pay tenthousands of dollars for a bus like this, even in this condition! Greetings from Wolfsburg (VW-Hometown) and again: Many thanks for your great work!
Thank you ! Thank you also for dropping in and checking it out , many thanks to you as well.
Thats a Dubwerks special! Nice pick Jason! Early Bays are the best
thank you 995
👍👌👏 Congratulations, well done! A really great purchase for sure (to me even more because it's green). I definitely didn't know that any VW aircooled bus this age could be bought for 500 bucks. Totally unthinkable in Europe, especially Germany.
Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.
Hi CC , thank you , you as well
@@5150mxVW
🙋 Hi
You're welcome, it's my pleasure.
Thanks for replying (first time for a long time). I always and totally appreciate this.
You're channel has grown a lot. Congratulations! 👍👌👏
Sincerely yours
Post Scriptum: Maybe you already know but Marcijunebug is online again at last.
I Was given A 64
Nice early low light Bay window. Pushbutton door handles. Extra long chrome rear view mirror. The coat hooks are for the seat belts to hang on when not used. The 68-69 front beam had the same mount bolt configuration as the split. They probably put a 1970 beam on it. See you Sunday
thank you for the info, I appreciate it , see you Sunday👍
Dude what do you do with all these VWs? You must have 50 of them by now.
He pushes them around !! 😆
@@garymallard4699 Ya like the Flintstones...
Like me but I’ve 30 in U.K. 😂
@@garymallard4699
😁😁😁👍👌👏 Exactly!
yeah, i remember when had 50 lol
yeah but the lighter still works
Yes, that is velvet green. 68 buses used some carryover colors from the split bus era. Titian Red and Lotus White were also used.
Interesting bus, tourist delivery at the factory. So a tin top Westy interior that someone ditched for a junkyard interior at some point? I have had those tall over riders on a bay bus before, I figured they were a dealer item or JC Whitney aftermarket. I wonder if that hitch is a factory/dealer item? There are threaded holes for install, I have a couple of those hitches in my stuff.
Those rear jail bars could have been installed at the factory, Any sign of them also having been installed in the rear side windows? That front beam has the later bolt pattern. 68-69 were the same, changed in 70 and stayed that way through 79. Yours is likely a 70, unless someone went through the hassle of installing drum brakes and spindles on a later model disc brake beam.
Even in that condition $500 is a screaming deal...good find
i thought so, thank you
Not to shabby for a scruffy looking soggy hippy! I jest because I look worse presently! Too bad those kids destroyed all the glass, and whatever else. It's still worth saving. Nice work Jason!
No key? Forget it!
Na, I would have bought it too for $500.
Just happy that you are talking to us again.
it rolled and steered , i'm IN :)
A great midweek video! The parking lot is getting really full by now you may have to start liquidating soon lol. Hope to see more on the oval this weekend.
Hi Marty, thank you for checking it out ...me too :)
I love going on your vw rescues with you and not getting wet or cold, great video....great buy., Dubwerks has become quite the authority on vw trivia
great to hear, thank you
Bro your a trip love your sence of humor that looks salvageable i would gave him 300 bucks missing the glass is were the money is gezz well its saved it can be someones project put windows in it i know you got parts then clean it up put some things together and flip it
He's got some serious metal work to do before a front glass can go in.
Nah, Bondo to the rescue
Hey Jason, you’re the VW whisperer! If you use the jack on the front of the trailer and jack up the trailer and truck at the same time it would be easier to load the bus. But you did fine in the rain. Thanks much for sharing!
Thank you, yeah i jacked up the front of the trailer to lower the angle ...wouldn't of had an issue if it wasn't for the huge bumper guards :)
@@5150mxVW yeah I’m not sure I like the bumper guards on that year of a bus. Would have been ok with me if you ripped them off. But probably caused more damage.
@@michaelmcdonald6727 yeah, they are kinda fugly :)
Lovin' how you're always keeping it real. 😊
thank you 854, I appreciate it
Just found your channel, always been a huge fan of the VW bus but never yet had the courage to buy one and beg for forgiveness from the wife 🤣 your videos make it very tempting! Looking forward to working my way through the back catalogue!
thank you CG , good luck with the Wife....just tell you know a guy that buys a Vw every week haha
Heavy on the body damage from what looks to be from moving the bus and stuff around it in it's past. However, it rolls! What this bus must have seen just after it was picked up at the factory. Cool!
Awesome save ! I would never pass that one up either ! 👍
thank you Warren!
Excellent video Jason :) also Dub Works :) and wild on $500.00 VW bus mobile too !
Thank you Andrew
@@5150mxVW welcome Jason :)
Hey mate from Australia and watch your vids you are a legend saving all these old vw . !!
Hi Mate, just having fun chasing all the Vw's I couldn't in HS haha....thank you, much appreciated
Hey Jason, an Arizona guy looking at the "slight amount of rust" on that bay.😉I'm not cringing but rather, giving that poor thing last rites. Jeez, I was trying to see if there was even $500 dollars of potential parts off that bad boy.. Hum.. How's scrap metal prices these days? 😂 I hate seeing buses with fatal cancer. :(
In Eastern Canada this is very typical. When a bus like this comes up for sale in my area. It's 3 to 5 k easy.
They rust like that in AZ too. LOL
I guess AZ takes the cake for the most fear in rust...and I thought it was the cali crew .
Cali people are in beemers dude
@@IEchuckie Nah, they traded their beemers for Teslas.
The buyers seem to have gone on a tour of Germany with their newly bought van. The middle back sticker says „Gruß aus der Rhön“, „Greetings from the Rhön area“, which is way off Wolfsburg. It’s a tourist sticker. So they might have toured before shipping the bus.
No gas divider panel on 68 buses. Those 68s are a different breed!
Thank you for the correction 👍👍
Greetings from Sydney Australia. Loving your channel so I subscribed for more.
Thank you , much appreciated
good find always look forward to your videos easiest going guy on you tube even when is bouncing down with rain cool bus
thank you, much appreciated Phillip
There's more than $500 in parts there. Like to see Musti and you together. Enjoy
you will see M1 and I together for a series in the near future🤩
It was picked up in Germany..so the color may have been an option that bought in USA was not....🤨
Cool! Love to see all updates on these! Thanks.
thank you
For the trailer stand I have the same one I drilled a hole in the top side of the tube and threaded a zerk fitting in and pump some grease In there it’s amazing how good it works
I thought the last rescue was your last last rescue. I say keep them coming!
:), last one at Don’s place :) …some of my best ever coming very soon
@@5150mxVW excellent!
Belo resgate amigo.
Nessa época aqui no brasil os modelos das kombi eram diferente .
Esse modelo so foi fabricado aqui no brasil na metade da decada de 1990
Desculpe amigo mas Brasil nunca tinha este modelo... este é um ´early bay window´ que é diferente do clipper. Mas entendo a comparação devido a porta de correr mas é só observar a frente para entender que nos não temos este modelo (luzes de seta lá embaixo, emblema grande no meio). Estou vendo muita gente modificar suas kombis para ter este visual, eu particularmente acho bem mais bonita!
@@mikescudder4621 obrigo pela explicação.
@@evaldosantana8123 Nada Evaldo! Talvez um pouco chato!! Mas é tecnicamente correto.
Velvet Green? Really looks like diamond blue to me…not to be confused with Diamond Dave from the band “Van Halen”.
well, seeing as it looks like velvet green and the bus has the L512 paint code sticker for velvet green ....we'll save diamond dave for another time
Pretty cool having info on the bus! You have to love the internet!
yes, and some history on the back glass ....watchers from Germany gave some great history on those as well as some Long Island people remembering this Bus.
Give it to Mustie! I think he'd appreciate another one
Using boards on the ramps can be pretty sketchy.. I know firsthand . A better way would be to bring some portable automotive ramps for the truck to back on to and it will help give you a smoother, less steep approach angle when you pull some thing onto it.
Hats off too Dub...great both of you......
Really like that bus ! Going to make someone very happy in the future ??
Hi Henry , I dig it
Now this is a COOL bus!
I’d love a video of all the dubs u still have 🙏 n what’s going on with them, and what happened to some of the rescues that have gone off to new homes 👍🏼🍻
I am as puzzled as you Jason, why take the dash apart? Anyway it is done now so that as they say is that! I like your interesting facts and I love it when Robbie comes with a new angle too. Great stuff Jason you could probably sell with a profit if you wanted to. I think you might want to make the front end a bit safer first though. Thanks Jason keep working on the oval. 👍👍
Probably because the top part was rotten.
I actually found a 92 RM 250 basket case . I was pleasantly surprised of how much of it was there . I got it running and driving for not much the aftermarket stuff was the biggest pain but she's a ripper now
Great year , 91 and 92’s are my favs …i have a few 91 RM125’s and a 91 & 92 RM250 , the 92 is 100% org
Your ramps are to short😂 but you already knew. Just playing😊
haha, yeah , add that to the issues :)
I always look forward to your videos, keep up the good work.
thank you Patrick, much appreciated
definitely worth rescuing but yea WHY.....like someone was over their head on that one. good for parts for a restoration on a really rusty one.
good for parts lol...another rock solid VW for New England ....
At 13:30.... the lettering on the front of the radio reads "All Transistor". Wow - that radio is definitely old! At 22:25, Dubwerks mentioned that the engine in this Westie is "unparisited". I saw that when Jay pull up the info on this bus on the website. Dunno - I'd think that it might mean that there's no smog air pump on it (U.S. air pollution regs at that time), or that there's no accessories (ex., A/C compressor on it) installed on the engine. Strange term! At 23:50, Dubwerks pointed out the German stickers on the back, and that indicated that the Westie spent some significant time over there after it was picked up at the factory. I'd bet that that the original owner may have been in the U.S. military, or that they arranged to buy the bus in Germany to take a long trip before they returned to the U.S., and had the bus shipped back.
No.1. Tell her it's blue (again). No.2. Purchase a rain coat. No.3 Longer ramps required. No.4. Well done to you, again.
Love that Oval man... want to see the engine smoke it up!! lol let's start that baby!
A bit of buffing, new glass, another engine and that bus will be good to go 😁
then suddenly you realize it's not such a bad investment haha :)
In the rain!Dedication to saving VW's at its best 😊👍
thank you Todd, sure beats the snow :))
Nice one bro, all things considered, i´d say that was a score!! Take you´re time with that locked up bug!! Cheers
thank you Mike, i think so too....yes, i've been filling it everyday, still locked but not forcing the issue :)
Love these bus rescue vids!!! Nice save brother!
thank you, much appreciated
I think I might know where this bus came from on Long Island. I'm trying to remember where, but it seems familiar to me. Maybe near the train station in Hicksville? Was a green bus like this that sat there for a long long time and then one day it was gone. Might be the same bus.
Have you ever thought of using longer ramps Jason. Smaller gradient might make pulling busses or bugs o the trailer much easier.
i usually just jack the front of thee trailer and i do carry 12" wide 4ft long boards to drop on the ramps to even thee grade some....i don't recall an issue with this bus....oh did the rear bumper hit ?
Jason, I must say I was Green with Envy, Wired and Remotely Board when watching you load the VW bus. Probably cause you were All Wet behind the ears and really Rusty at Loading Up. Then I realized it was because you were All Washed Up. And just like you, the VW is Special and Buffed. Okay, alright, so I am highly medicated since my back went out.....=Puns R Us. Best wishes. John here, from the back-roads of Northeastern Tennessee😅🤣😂.
The front beam is a late 69, 70. Pattern changed. Good score!
68 only ? I thought 68-70 same no?
If Dubwerks actually cleaned all that debris in that pad off it would work a lot better 😂
yeah, that thing was pretty CAKED LOL
This is actually one of the better ones the pinecone Beatle was a roller with a air induction you should do a quick video on the fast bug some of these guys never seen or just put up the clip with Josh the look on his face was priceless...lol
Haha, yes , clenching the Constanza wallet lol
$500 that's not bad! at least it's not rotted halfway in the ground.
not bad at all, bummer about the dash but ....
Dude!! Proceed to the route!!! What part didn't you understand? The instructions were pretty clear! 😂😂
🤣, that was edited version too haha
You can see the holes drilled for the sink/ refrigerator behind the Passenger seat.
Nice find J
thank you Dennis
Those thin over rider's are rare to find on an Early Bay.
And theres no fuel tank panel on a 68. A 68 Bay is a 1yr only bus, lots of 1yr only parts, doors, door handles, wipers, dash clocks, chassis itself (front and rear chassis changed for 69 model year), no fuel tank cover, sun visors, rear view mirror, brake drums, front beam. Basically lots of splitty bits were carried over.
And thats missing its interior, SO67 is a full camper interior, my bus is an early 68 SO67, theres a walk around of it on mine/my sons channel, should have that interior.
Also that colour isnt uncommon on Early Bays, know of a few 68/69's that colour here in Europe.
And the Tourist Order option was a cool thing VW used to do. You could order your Camper, fly over to Germany, collect it from the factory, go on holiday in it for a while, drop it back to VW and they'd ship it to you in the states. My old 69 Bay was a Tourist Order and I had some of the original paperwork about it, also the service book that showed it spent its first 3 months/6k miles touring Germany, then it was shipped to the states by VW.
Thank you for the education on 68’s 👍, much appreciated
Hi
Nice to follow you thanks from Sweden !
Hi , thank you , much appreciated
👍👌👏 😁😁😁 At 3.55 min: While generating terrible squeaking noise, we are told emphatically: "Yes, I lube this regularly!" 😁😁😁 Please kindly allow me to suggest something: Maybe you better grease it, Sir! Oil doesn't stay on, even less does for instance something like that WD40 cra... uhm... penetrating oil. If parked I always put a really big plastic flower pot over the hitch mechanism, the plug and the crank handle. So no rust can rise because no water cant go in.
Best regards, luck and health in particular.
I lube my trailer jacks with 90wt. It stinks but it also sticks around, once it gets inside. I also place a 5 gallon bucket over the top to keep rain out, then clip the safety chains on the handle so the wind doesn't blow it away.
That for the website on identifying the bus . I looked my up 😁
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watching from England, why is it nearly always raining there? I know you have got Larry, over here there is a business called type2 detectives which is run by a lovely man called Paul, have a look if you haven't seen it yet
velvet Green how about money green. Keep the Oval rocken it will break threw just as Musty1 hits the drive way.
Read the comments. European guys pay 4 to 5k for this. List it for 3.5k to help cover the shipping cost
i dig this one and i haven't even buffed the dash....oh wait , it doesn't have one :)
Nice find! Hopefully the oval engine loosens up!
Thank you , not yet
That road is called Long Island Ave. My neck of the woods.
oh cool ! i'll never see it as i'll never cross frog neck or whatever bridge TOLL monster ....$100 late fee....
I knew it wasn't your last rescue!
last one at Don's :)
Bummer on the radio, at first I thought it was and Alpine !
That fuel pump with the glass on it is for a flathead V8 engine. Also iseen some other parts for a flathead.
Of all the things the owner could do..... Why pull out the dash ???
I like how it shined up, a bus like that in Nova Scotia would be 4000 k 😫
God i hate working in the rain😖⚡
T2 busses start @ 3,000 pounds, iirc. Nice find. The price is right.
Watch the movie Slap Shot..!! 😆 He looks like a Hanson Brother 😆
The 2 side louvered windows will be worth more than the $500 you payed for it.
Great video guys
Thank you Mr M
nice job.
One more saved Vw. Thanks from Sc
:), thank you Allen
If he paid me 500 bucks yea sure Id haul it out of there.
That is a cool green👍
i agree :)
A caddyshack quote!!
Rough but easy money back in parts ,bumpers cool . Maybe restorable
maybe restorable ???!!!!!???...Coco I am disappointed in you!
@@5150mxVW sorry don’t look to bad ,got to love early bay
good to hear, you must of bumped your head earlier :)
@@5150mxVW lol I just remembered I’ve a early bay panel van in the rear corner of my shop somewhere and needs work 👍 yeah head hurting