Does anyone or has anyone ever owned a hippie bus/van?

i had four of them at one time . . . . i wish i had one now, but i been spendin all my money on music instruments. im hopin to find a place ot store some though, i know where alot of cheap fixer uppers are . . .

 

That is such an awesome idea! Any ideas where I can find little school buses for sell? :O!

 

OK some good advice in there, some horrible bad habits too.
VW for idiots is not relevant for the VW you will be driving. it is a good light reading book, but you want that book no where near you when working on a bus. you need a shop manual, bently, haynes, or chilton. electronic ignition, is seldom a good idea, unless youve made several modifications on a 1600 motor, i would stick with the original ignition. in most cases, you should stick to what originally came with the bus, the year it was made, because none of you are going to the drag strip, your tryin to travel in it to avoid hotel fees, and get back home without paying for a mechanic, so every time you beef up your Horse power, or fix something that aint broke, you increase youre chances at breaking down. as far as speed goes, my general rule was that a bus can go as fast as the year it was made. a 76 has no problem doing 76mph. a 72 has no problem doing 72. my 66 would get up to 66 fine. if you happen to find a Fuel injected bus, and people tell you to throw it out and put a carb on it, do not listen to them, write me a PM and i will explain how it works and how to fix it, the FI is much more reliable and less maintence that the carbs.

 

here is my baby 1969

 

1969 what a jem!!!

 

i've liked them since i was 10, and theres always loads of camper vans all lined up in row on a main road near me, some guy must do them up and sell, tho i have never seen one for sale

 

yeah ebay for about a hundred bucks

 

ok i just had to. one last time then ill stop.

 

Why Did You Sell?!

 

as with everything i do, there hads to be more than one reason.
selling is is one of the few things (maybe only) that i sometimes come close to regretting, and i do wish i still had it. when i bought here she was rust and holes, the wheels wouldnt move, the steering wheel wouldnt turn, no motor, not a single good wire or seal, no gas tank, basically a shell and a transaxle. had to learn myself alot restorin her, and for 3 years of buildin and 7000 miles of drivin, i wouldnt trade those experiences for anything, but i had a lot of great ones once i sold her, that i wouldnt have had if i kept her, and i wouldnt trade those for anything either. it was just part of my path, an end of a chapter. i still got the email of the folks who bought her, and i know that for the first 9 months atleast they never put her on the road, maybe i should get ahold of them and try to buy it back. i hope they didnt junk it! (i bought it out of a junker, i'd hate to see it end up back in one)

 

my cousins who i will be with at bonnaroo have there own hippie bus its called the peace maker and they completely designed and built it themselves. You probably will see them if u go ill be with them...they are the emergency medical technicians...there defientely on the bonnaroo dvd for 2003 and 2004 they have shirts that say peace maker on it...we drive there huge bus to TN every year!!! getting excited its right around the corner!

 

Down under although VW Kombis are still quite popular with hippies, what has taken over as the architypal hippie vehicle is old Toyota Hiaces.I have just bought one that I am fixing up.With the one I had before ,I put a single 2'6'' wide bed in it that I found at the tip and bought a cheap foam mattress.I could get a reasonable nights sleep in it.

At the last Confest I went to there was particular Hiace that had a number of external ornamentation pieces on the roof.( I could not see the use of these things.)The paint work was silver frosting with some other paint splashed over it.The whole van was completly unrecognisable from a standard Hiace.People called it "the spaceship".

Anyway here is a pic of the one I have just bought.

 

never owned but always dreaming of it!

 

i love your sig!