10,000 mile 1960 VW Kombi bus pulled from 45 years of heated storage

Back in 1960 a guy thought a mobile donut selling operation would be a good business to bring to factories during break time. Things didn't work out well, and the van was put into storage for 45 years. One of about 40 made.


Full gallery and story at http://placc.stipistop.com/2012/02/21/40-eve-pihen-a-gurulo-samba-fankbolt/ 

a variety of interesting stuff from Parkoffka.ru

 that is a great way to pillow the car!

wow, great idea for a bridge paint job, and what a opportunity for Lego to get free advertising!

already eye catching, the stretch and blue light really are knock ou

 the above is going to be a huge problem and not end well. There is nothing that is going to stop the tire from coming in, washing out under the tires of the truck and trailer, and no way that is going to get towed out with less than a Caterpillar D-9

just a small sample of the interesting stuff at http://parkoffka.ru

Good stuff and humor from Empistyler.blogspot.de

I think the VW vehicles must have been 2nd in all time cars made that were used in every possible way the owners could find to make them more useful, right after the Model T

last because it's alphabetically at the end, is the Zombie bus. Takes a lot of bullets, still runs

All found on http://empistyler.blogspot.de

the 1958 Gran Prix of Cuba color photos

 there is a very unusual car in gold color above... anyone know what it is?

 Wow, in the above photo are a lot of cool things, firetrucks, fuel tankers, a pre 1958 Shell Station, a ww2 jeep, racing t bird, lots of great old cars and trucks, and a great trailer

images from http://www.cubagreenscreen.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=14818 thanks to Kurtis Grant who tipped me to them

More coverage with an entirely different gallery of images at
http://www.velocetoday.com/the-cuban-grand-prix-1957-part-2-of-3/#more-45991 

Hodad's in Ocean Beach, San Diego... best cheeseburger in the city, voted the best in a lot of polls in a lot of magazines and newspapers, by the readers... and it has this cool VW van cab as a booth

Festival of rolling kitchens in Amsterdam, some of the 70 gourmet food vendors

thanks to Mike V for letting me know, and sending me the link to his Picasa to share with all of you! 

Norm Daniels has the incredible talent of making VW bus caricatures, these are awesome

A lot more of these are on his website, http://normhere.com/cartoons and if you click the thumbnails, they expand to full screen, way cool!