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G-wood Todd
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| Thank you. Shot was taken at dusk. Sun had just set over the horizon 20 minutes earlier. |
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rjonas
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Location: Chandler, AZ
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Took a road trip a couple weeks ago through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. 3650-mile round trip and only about 150-miles on an interstate. Saw a ton of back roads and found a few OTBP trails to explore.
Nice view of the mountains in Kansas.
Eastern Colorado somewhere.
Near Page, AZ
Northern, AZ somewhere
Near Kanab, Utah
Just outside of Las Vegas
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BarryL 
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Baddass.
Looks like you washed your bus before every shot. Could be calendar art. |
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Stuartzickefoose
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Baddass.
Looks like you washed your bus before every shot. Could be calendar art. |
x2...howd you keep that booger clean on those dirt roads? 1 mph crawl???
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BulliBill
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Location: St Charles, MO
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Really Roy, I want one of those 2015 calendars for my basement workbench! Each month a new shot from somewhere on your adventure. I'll humbly suggest this one from your Missouri backyard visit to see the DC:
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That Deluxe is an amazing Transporter, and it was so cool to see you out roadtrippin' in it last month. You should post up one of those maps showing the backroad route you took roundtrip... It was great to see you!
By the way, I'll see you at your house in Mesa tomorrow evening for the Jerome Jamboree festivities with Shawn. I'm hitchin' a ride on the flight attendant jumpseat on a nonstop US Airways flight in the morning. Get that Raffle Bus ready for my ass!
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rjonas
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Location: Chandler, AZ
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| Stuartzickefoose wrote: |
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Baddass.
Looks like you washed your bus before every shot. Could be calendar art. |
x2...howd you keep that booger clean on those dirt roads? 1 mph crawl??? |
Thanks y'all. Well...I was on the road for 11 days and washed it 3 times as I drove through rain a couple different days plus every morning I washed the bugs off the nose from driving the night before. So yes, I did keep it pretty clean. I must admit that a couple of the pictures were taken not far from pavement...only drove about 15-miles on actual un-paved roads but most of my trip was on 2-lane blacktop. Looking forward to seeing you guys tomorrow and the raffle bus is awaiting its pilot for the weekend...hope one of you get to drive it home!
Hummm...calendar art...you guys just gave me a great idea for Christmas cards this year 
This one is my favorite:
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Brendel20
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Awesome pics Roy...thanks for sharing.  |
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otis_bartleh
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Awesome pics everyone!
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Wartown81
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Opted out of going to the Bandamire show in Denver this weekend. Instead we took the Kamper Kombi out on its maiden camp trip.
Edit: The wife wants everyone to know that she is not fat in this picture instead 25 weeks pregnant. 
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I know it's an old post, but what are the tire specs on this bus? |
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wcfvw69
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This one is my favorite:
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This is a gorgeous photo. Kudos to you for enjoying your bus by taking it out and using it the way it was meant to be used. I'm sure that very few nice 21 window bus owners drive their bus's more than a few miles a month. These threads also demonstrate that these old VW's can be very reliable when they are brought back up to 100% mechanical condition as well.
Thanks for sharing your photos!
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Stuartzickefoose
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Opted out of going to the Bandamire show in Denver this weekend. Instead we took the Kamper Kombi out on its maiden camp trip.
Edit: The wife wants everyone to know that she is not fat in this picture instead 25 weeks pregnant.
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I know it's an old post, but what are the tire specs on this bus? |
Looks like a set of general grabber at/2's
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G-wood Todd
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Yes. General grabbers. 205/75/15. Great tire both on the highway and off road. Handle well in snow too.
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Wartown81
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| Thanks for that. Maybe a dumb question, how could I be sure I wouldn't have clearance issues on my bus with a 205? It has 155s now from PO and there's not a lot of room in there. '60 panel, stock height. |
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mandraks
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| Thanks for that. Maybe a dumb question, how could I be sure I wouldn't have clearance issues on my bus with a 205? It has 155s now from PO and there's not a lot of room in there. '60 panel, stock height. |
if it is a stock height bus then you have enormous amounts of room around your 155 beetle tires.
205 75 15s are likely going to be tight on any bus
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2...start=1640
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Wartown81
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| Excellent, thank you. |
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G-wood Todd
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| Thanks for that. Maybe a dumb question, how could I be sure I wouldn't have clearance issues on my bus with a 205? It has 155s now from PO and there's not a lot of room in there. '60 panel, stock height. |
My bus is a bone stock 60 also. No clearance problems or rubbing anywhere front or back with the 205s. And that's loaded down with the family and camping gear.
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and take the kids for instance "Are we going in the Volkswagen bus?" and they say "Yay!" and clap their hands and if it's a glorious day you can slide the sunroof back and let a little of the glory in and all of a sudden, it stops looking funny.
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beatles4
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| how much taller did those general at2s make your bus sit? |
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Wartown81
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Thanks G-wood. Can you think of any reason that the 155s would be close to the wheel arch? I have to tilt the top half of tire inboard when I remove tires. Saggy rear? This doesn't seem normal to me if 205s wouldn't rub.
I tried to crop just the rear area to no avail.
I've since put the correct wheels on.  |
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dmuis
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Thanks G-wood. Can you think of any reason that the 155s would be close to the wheel arch? I have to tilt the top half of tire inboard when I remove tires.
I've since put the correct wheels on. |
Are they original 15" bus wheels? The wheels in the picture definitely have a different offset.
This is my 65 single with early bus rims and kumho kl78 205/75R15's on a stock big nut tranny. Different fender lip but spacing between the sidewall and fender should be similar when installed. Might have to deflate a bit to sneak under an early fender.
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Wartown81
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| Yes there are stock bus rims on it now. And I was mistaken, it has 165s on there now. It will work. Found the Grabbers for $92 at discount tire. Thanks for the info fellas |
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