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		Tired of your ho-hum, work-a-day life? Sell everything and start trippin' in a vintage VW microbus, like this guy (latimes.com)		91
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darkhorse23		2012-03-19 09:12:20 PM

I lived in an orange Westfalia VW for 6 months back in 73 while travelling and producing concerts. Not as much fun as you might think.

calbert		2012-03-19 09:13:21 PM

where the hell is subby getting that info for the headline?

it's a lady, and she rented a VW for the weekend.

big farking deal

Nogrhi		2012-03-19 09:16:07 PM

I would love a vintage microbus in good condition.

AbbeySomeone		2012-03-19 09:19:31 PM

calbert: where the hell is subby getting that info for the headline?

it's a lady, and she rented a VW for the weekend.

big farking deal

This is Fark. Facts don't matter.
I'm ready for a gypsy adventure.

markie_farkie		2012-03-19 09:21:24 PM

Vintage VW sales pr0n here (new window)

A well-restored or preserved microbus can go for well over $30,000 now.. Geezus!!

www.oldbug.com

propasaurus		2012-03-19 09:23:58 PM

Right after graduating high school, my best friend and I spent the summer refurbishing a 1964 VW bus. Then when it was all fixed up and roadworthy, we hit the highway. First stop, Rome, GA where a girlfriend of mine was going to college. That's also about as far as we made it before a major mechanical breakdown. Spent about a week or so there with the bus in the shop. Then headed out again. The Carolinas, Blue Ridge Parkway, DC and finally NYC. A couple of long-haired hippies driving through the South. Great road trip all in all, sleeping in the back of the VW most nights. It would have been great to take that trip up PCH.

darkhorse23		2012-03-19 09:42:36 PM

markie_farkie: Vintage VW sales pr0n here (new window)

A well-restored or preserved microbus can go for well over $30,000 now.. Geezus!!

[www.oldbug.com image 480x640]

[www.oldbug.com image 640x480]

My first one was like the one you posted, although it was lighter green. It was an Alabama Camper, with a stove, fridge and sink built in in the back along with a bed. We had that one pre-children. Of all the cars I've owned, I wish I had that one back.

LordOfThePings		2012-03-19 09:53:11 PM

Don't you remember, we always talked about how cool it would be to have a van and just drive?

GAT_00		2012-03-19 09:59:19 PM

I'd like to think it was because we gals were so fetching

Well we're going to need some evidence for this.

AbbeySomeone		2012-03-19 10:15:38 PM

LordOfThePings: Don't you remember, we always talked about how cool it would be to have a van and just drive?

Maybe together we can get somewhere
Me myself I got nothin' to prove.

TsarTom		2012-03-19 10:39:23 PM

Wow. That brings back some memories. I actually did this for a summer way back when. Right before my senior year in college, A few classmates and I just decided to take off in a friend's van and see what happened. We drove all over the country. It actually turned out to be a lot of fun. Me and my best friend talked two sophomore girls into going with us, together with his huge farking retard of a dog of course. We all smelled awful after about 2 days, but we kept it up.
I'll never forget that time we broke down about a thousand miles outside of Bumfark, Egypt in the middle of the night. It was cold, it was raining, we had nothing to eat, but I could see some lights coming from over a hill. Turns out it was an abandoned theme park that was haunted by pirate-ghosts. Jenkies! that was scary.

Cewley		2012-03-19 10:48:18 PM

had a 64 in markie_farkie colors, got us from Chicago to San Diego when I was in the usn. very interesting to be almost knocked over by sagebrush going across AZ. had lots of fun and could haul a lot of carless shipmates!

MeinRS6		2012-03-19 11:03:00 PM

markie_farkie: Vintage VW sales pr0n here (new window)

A well-restored or preserved microbus can go for well over $30,000 now.. Geezus!!

One of the 23(?) window versions went for a little over $100,000 at Barrat-Jackson last year. It was pretty, but dayum.

CruiserTwelve		2012-03-19 11:13:45 PM

Maybe Subby was talking about this guy:

GAT_00		2012-03-19 11:21:38 PM

CruiserTwelve: Maybe Subby was talking about this guy:

[i162.photobucket.com image 600x190]

Ooh, wow, and edgy newspaper comic. That's the one where the parents and the teenager argue all the time right? So unique. Got a Cathy strip to contribute too?

Marcus Aurelius		2012-03-20 12:06:48 AM

Sure, the Volkswagens are all fun and games, until you need a passenger compartment heating system.

Thank God for global warming.

ElizaDoolittle		2012-03-20 03:21:13 AM

Want.

ElizaDoolittle		2012-03-20 03:24:01 AM

^^^ pics from here (new window).

dopeydwarf		2012-03-20 03:30:18 AM

Neondistraction		2012-03-20 05:45:57 AM

Does it come with a device under the seat that alters the passage of time?

Skr		2012-03-20 05:46:32 AM

One of my high school Art teachers did the whole drop everything and road trip. Technically the board forced his hand by cutting the art department, but he sold all of his stuff and hit the sunset to trek through all of the states. Sounded like he started living a great life of wandering soul searching.

Really wish I had the freedom to do that, but responsibility.

david_gaithersburg		2012-03-20 05:59:56 AM

I miss my bus. Some asshat ran a red light when I had the green.

I miss that old gal. Excuse me while I step away to sob.

Savage Belief		2012-03-20 06:00:44 AM

21 posts and no Arlo Guthrie/Alice's Restaurant references?

/Fark, I am disappoint.

MeinRS6		2012-03-20 06:08:09 AM

Sold for $217k. Now that's a pricey bus.
Link (new window)

RassilonsExWife		2012-03-20 06:13:38 AM

Except it's not a guy. C- for reading comprehension

kendelrio		2012-03-20 06:22:09 AM

I did this In '93 after I got out of the Marines, but it was a 74 Sunbug. Had about 15k saved, hit the road and drove until it burned on the side of the Indian Nation Tollway in Oklahoma. Took my last $70 to pay the wrecker to haul it away.

/great times.
//stupid fuel filters above the distributor
///stupid magnesium engines

darth_shatner		2012-03-20 06:24:07 AM

1979 cars are vintage now?

I feel old.

chetbango		2012-03-20 06:24:35 AM

My buddy had an old VW bus, with the bigger engine and everything. We decided that a chevy van of the same vintage was categorically pretty much the same or better. The VW's are completely gutless, and the air cooled engines made for crappy heating. Get a Chevy with a small block 350 in there, and they actually are pretty fast. The mileage wasn't much different because the air-cooled 4 in the VW was beating the shiat out of itself every time you wanted to merge onto the highway or climb a hill. I guess the only advantage of a VW is that people see you as a hippy, where in a 70's van people pretty much figure you are a pederast.

chetbango		2012-03-20 06:27:12 AM

TsarTom: Wow. That brings back some memories. I actually did this for a summer way back when. Right before my senior year in college, A few classmates and I just decided to take off in a friend's van and see what happened. We drove all over the country. It actually turned out to be a lot of fun. Me and my best friend talked two sophomore girls into going with us, together with his huge farking retard of a dog of course. We all smelled awful after about 2 days, but we kept it up.
I'll never forget that time we broke down about a thousand miles outside of Bumfark, Egypt in the middle of the night. It was cold, it was raining, we had nothing to eat, but I could see some lights coming from over a hill. Turns out it was an abandoned theme park that was haunted by pirate-ghosts. Jenkies! that was scary.

Did you ever bang the tall redhead, or were you stuck with the smart chick with the glasses?

KillerFuzz		2012-03-20 06:28:39 AM

obligatory
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tweek46420		2012-03-20 06:38:30 AM

I would love to do that.....maybe not in a VW tho...heard those mo'fo's break down like no other.

/I'm kind of a anti-hippie hippie

Another Government Employee		2012-03-20 06:41:02 AM

I always wanted to do that in a converted school bus.

Tenatra		2012-03-20 06:44:33 AM

"and the panhandler who carried a sign saying, "I won't lie. I need beer.""

I wonder if that is the panhandler with the same sign from Anchorage. I was out with a friend and he thought it was so awesome that he had to go over and give the guy $5 and get a picture taken with him

Gene Masseth Jr.		2012-03-20 06:44:42 AM

LordOfThePings: Don't you remember, we always talked about how cool it would be to have a van and just drive?

We were 8!

untaken_name		2012-03-20 06:55:08 AM

Tenatra: "and the panhandler who carried a sign saying, "I won't lie. I need beer.""

I wonder if that is the panhandler with the same sign from Anchorage. I was out with a friend and he thought it was so awesome that he had to go over and give the guy $5 and get a picture taken with him

It's a tactic. It's like "39 cents short of a taco" or "will work for food". You see it on lots of signs nowadays.

Tenatra		2012-03-20 07:03:46 AM

@untaken_name

untaken_name: It's a tactic. It's like "39 cents short of a taco" or "will work for food". You see it on lots of signs nowadays.

Yea I figured as much, I wouldn't be surprised if it was him though. Talk to anyone in AK and one of the only other places they've been to in the states is CA or they dream of going there if they have never been outside AK.

Sgygus		2012-03-20 07:14:22 AM

Ah, the memories ... of being busted in a yellow van outside a Lazerium show for smoking pot.

lucksi		2012-03-20 07:32:41 AM

...I read that as stripping at first...

Also, came for the I LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER and leaving disappointed

jnoel		2012-03-20 07:39:49 AM

It's so liberating to be disconnected.
Lets blog about it!

ronaprhys		2012-03-20 07:52:33 AM

The concept sounds like lots of fun - if you're one of the 1%. If not, you'll just end up living off my taxes because you're a jobless bum with no retirement plan.

asshole.

Shakespeare's Monkey		2012-03-20 08:07:40 AM

shadowmaster		2012-03-20 08:09:59 AM

Came for cool story of ditching it all and traveling the world. Leaving with chicks weekend in a rented microbus. Where is the guy who sells everthing and hits the road? Maybe subby was drunk and imagined this was in the article but it seems like a pretty big difference.

Koolaider		2012-03-20 08:11:28 AM

What's that? One of those Jefferson Starships I've heard so much about?

ManOfTeal		2012-03-20 08:16:56 AM

MeinRS6: [i.imgur.com image 640x426]

Sold for $217k. Now that's a pricey bus.
Link (new window)

I drove a 72' Beetle all through high school and college.

I used to have a subscription to Hot VW's magazine.

They made one thing abundantly clear in that magazine every month. The more windows the VW bus has, the more valuable it is.

I think the bus that came stock with 21 windows was the most valuable.

TravisBickle62		2012-03-20 08:20:16 AM

Didn't they make Combi's in Mexico into the 1980's?

PYROY		2012-03-20 08:28:12 AM

At no point in this story did they put on their pajamas and start making out.

chaddsfarkprefect		2012-03-20 08:41:16 AM

The author wasn't paid anything for that, was she?

Disposable Rob		2012-03-20 08:43:14 AM

If anyone here remembers The Brunching Shuttlecocks, then you should know that this is what its creator, Lore Sjoberg, is doing. Except instead of a vintage VW ban, it's a Ford with blacked-out windows.

http://slumbering.lungfish.com/ (new window)

TwowheelinTim		2012-03-20 08:44:30 AM

Marcus Aurelius: Sure, the Volkswagens are all fun and games, until you need a passenger compartment heating system.

Thank God for global warming.

Unless your wrenching skills (or your mechanic's) suck, there's plenty of heat available for warming a VW's interior compartment. In fact, the heater on an air cooled engine warms faster than on a liquid cooled engine.

/VW fanatic from way back...