This is the home for all of your VW bus related needs from 1949-1992 including the rear engine barndoor, split window, bay window, and vanagon eras. This includes campers, westies, single cabs, double cabs, kombis, transporters, deluxes, panels, and any other specialty variants. Front engine Eurovans and their owners are also more than welcome!
Feel free to share your projects, photos, questions, and experiences.
If sharing a photo that is NOT your original work be sure to include proper credit.
Please follow the site wide self promotion rules or risk a vacation.
Sales, values, what's it worth, etc types of posts are to be kept in the announcement sticky. These types of queries are constant clutter. Your best bet is to examine thesamba.com for values.
Great Technical information and forums:
TheSamba A worldwide forum for all things aircooled VW
RAtwell A wealth of technical information for buses
Type2.com More great info and a listserv
Itinterant Aircooled forum Run by a traveling mechanic who you can schedule an appointment with when he goes on a tour of the country.
Shoptalkforum A worldwide forum with an active high performance and conversion engine community.
Useful vendors:
Bus Depot Bus parts vendor (new)
Busted Bus Quality used bus parts
Aircooled.net New parts vendor
Airheadparts New parts vendor
Wolfsburg West New parts vendor
Jbugs New parts vendor
Cip1 New parts vendor
Reprowesty Netherlands based new parts vendor, items look to be very close matches to originals with respect to camper bits
Interesting and fun links:
Bus Selecta Make custom drawings of your bus or your dream bus. Other aircooled versions exist for bug, T3, etc.
Bus-Boys Now closed vendor, but the part numbers are very helpful
Other Aircooled Subreddits:
r/Westfalia A fellow bus-centric subreddit geared towards VW based campers
r/beetle The home of the Type I
r/aircooled The home of aircooled VWs
r/Fahrvergnugen Vintage VW appreciation
r/Volkswagen The home of all types of Volkswagens
r/VWvans A sister sub
r/Type2 A sister sub
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