MY first bus how about yours

[obus]

Paul what was the story with this one? is there any info on here about it?

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July 1959 Mango Standard Bus aka Obus L346 L347 https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=256592&highlight=
June 1973 Pumpkin Orange Thing aka Othing L30H
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=711775&highlight=
1960 Paprika Red Karmann Ghia Convertible aka Schatze L452 built 5/20/60
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...highlight=
66 21 window bus built 8/31/65 https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=777273

[mynameismud]

[67 Florida Deluxe]

[cln60ragfk]

[LittleThunder]

My '67 Sundial back in '71

[RobzKombi]

Ad picture when I bought it in 2003 for $1500.00 tractor paint included .
It's a 1965 sunroof kombi.

[NorCalWeekender]

So I am in the process of moving and came across an old stack of pix...so here's my first and second buses.

1966 13 Window

1965 Kombi

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9th Owner of a 1971 Tintop Westy

"Eventually, we sold to a guy for $500 who towed it away to live in it in his parents' driveway. We didn't think it would ever avoid the junk heap on that day." -The 3rd Owner, 1995

[silkyimpala]

My first engine build runs good> My pops and I finished the paint last week. So this project is out of the way. Ready for the barndoors. They will be here on the 29th!

Its been cool reading all these post hope to see more. I will show my face after my next build. Ill warn you now its pretty ugly( burn from car wreck ).

[silkyimpala]

(Back to work) - next week- 56 semaphore panel Will be for sale

(should be done before the 29th)
I have pictures of it if you are interested.

[--mego]

Nice bus, Silky!!!

where's La Cabana on Wilson Way? I know the one on Pacific.

I try to avoid Wilson Way...lol

[silkyimpala]

Yeah wilsons crazy

Next sat. Ill be at the elephant bar drinking mojitos. Come check it out

[silkyimpala]

Just got my first 15 window I am pushing to have it going in two weeks.
Picture soon

[bill may]

[DormobileDave67]

my first bus i got in 2001
and i still have it

[77ducci]

Man, I miss my first bus. 62 kombi with the early stuff.

[bastardbus]

I have owned VW bugs and buses since about `87 but this was my first split window bus circa about `88- `89.

I bought it out of the NEATO Old Bus Review from a wanted ad.
A`67 13 window deluxe, 65k miles. All original engine, interior and paint (except on the lower nose). Had mint blue mats and the og seats under those covers. I paid $1,800 flew down to Shrevport LA and drove it home. This was one of the cleanest buses underneath I have yet to see. The blue paint on the under carriage was as nice as on the top of the bus.
Wound up trading it and a fist of cash for a very low mileage og `67 westy to a student at Kenyon College in Ohio a couple years later. I wonder where it is now?

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[Mr Mike]

Hope this ain't gonna get me in trouble. My first VW was / is, a 1966
java green sunroof bug I bought new in June 1966. I was in the Navy
(I'm a 30 year Navy career guy) that year, stationed at what was then
NAS Miramar north of San Diego. I've kept it all these years, rolled it across the States, coast to coast, four times, slept in it,camped in it, whatever. Years later, when our daughter went off to college in Seattle she rolled it as her daily driver. We purchased the car from Truman motors Volkswagen in ElCajon. Over the years I've kept every scrap of paper that came with the car. Maintence sheets, window sticker,etc. My wife and I still drive the car although we have to laugh from time to time. We're both in our seventys and not near as thin as we once were when we first got it.
Regarding my buses. My first 3 were project cars purchased in the early
1990's. I was working for the Navy in Japan as a civilian and didn't have time for them. So I sold them. Basicaly for pennies on the dollar.
In 1995 my kid hooked me up with the girl who owned my current bus,
a '63 15 window. It was in good shape and was her daily driver. A local Seattle bus, I was the third owner. It became mine in August that year,
and I've loved it ever since. We celebrated its M-code plate birthdate
last week 31 Jan '63 with a short cruise. Gonna do it again this friday
6 Feb. According to the birth certificate thats the date it rolled off the line.
Gotta love it.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/291893.jpg

[slamnfreak]

My SC, when I first got it.

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"sometimes i wish you could kick people through the internet..."

[Gmiee5]

I have owned 20 or so bugs over the years.

But this is my first bus it is a 1967 21-window it was originally a velvet green and white. And it's going back to velvet green. I bought it about 8 months ago

this is number 2 1966 deluxe about 6 months ago

[Philo Beddoe]

My first bus: a late 67' standard. Drove it daily from 1992-1996. I had some good times in that ole' bitch.

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'56 T-1
'64 T-2