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Red Fau Veh
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 Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 11:24 pm Post subject: The Parris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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Some of you folks have seen this bus but since it belongs to my friend and he doesn't post here, I felt I should post it up. This is the 1966 Parris Valley Camper's single cab, the only one they ever made. It was custom made for the original owner of the bus circa 1968. My friend got the bus and made it a driver around 1994, I believe he paid 800 bucks for it.  It is a very cool camper with some fun things that were done to make it into what you see. The truck had 2 treasure chest doors and the camper company told the owner he needed to go get the bed cut for the conversion so he did and then the camper company built the camper on the bus. The pics show what had to be done to make the conversion and I feel it is about the cleanest camper vw bus I have ever seen. Its a gem and I'm trying to convince my buddy to follow us to octo and the Blackstar event later this year so more people get to see it. Enjoy
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1971 Deluxe Sunroof Bay 1905 stroker, dual idf40's, 74mm Scat forged crank, engle 110 cam. CB 044 heads, AutoCraft rockers, chromoly push rods
1973 Orange transporter stock type 4 with dual 40 Dellortos and Empi single quiet pack
1969 Adventurewagen blue whale Gene Berg 1776 built by Dave Kawell dual 36 DRLA's, Vintage Speed exhaust, Bosch 019 screamer
1961 Swivel Seat camper, L345 grey
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60freak
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 4:11 am Post subject: Re: The Paris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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That is so cool. Hope to see it at OCTO.  |
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campingbox 
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 4:11 am Post subject: Re: The Paris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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I saw that truck in Michigan in 2004:
It looked like a clean original paint bus at the time. |
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Who.Me?
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 5:59 am Post subject: Re: The Paris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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Quite like the look, but I don't get why they cut the ends off of the side gate latches off, rather than unbolting and removing them?
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TinCanFab
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Red Fau Veh
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 10:25 am Post subject: Re: The Paris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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| campingbox wrote: |
I saw that truck in Michigan in 2004:
It looked like a clean original paint bus at the time. |
Sweet! Did you meet the owner Mike? He recently built a home here in Prescott and is now one of the cool bus owners I know. He has built many buses bitd but this is the keeper. He went to Paris Valley Camper and the man that built it was still there and remembered building it. He said the owner brought in the truck and they had to custom build it during the slow part of the year when they didn't have other stock builds going on. You could buy one of the Datsun truck conversions from them but not a VW. Unfortunately my buddy didn't get any pics at the time and the next time he tried contacting the company it had closed its doors for good! But the name of the guy that built it was Mack and he had worked at the camper company for many years. I was very happy to have the bus show up at my house yesterday because I had only seen it at local shows. It is quite a crowd drawing piece so I never got a good look at it because I kept seeing all these people constantly asking to look inside it. I don't feel it is my right to go traipsing through the mans bus so yesterday was my first chance to see the insides and get some good pics.
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1971 Deluxe Sunroof Bay 1905 stroker, dual idf40's, 74mm Scat forged crank, engle 110 cam. CB 044 heads, AutoCraft rockers, chromoly push rods
1973 Orange transporter stock type 4 with dual 40 Dellortos and Empi single quiet pack
1969 Adventurewagen blue whale Gene Berg 1776 built by Dave Kawell dual 36 DRLA's, Vintage Speed exhaust, Bosch 019 screamer
1961 Swivel Seat camper, L345 grey
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oakman
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 10:36 am Post subject: Re: The Paris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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| Sweet rig!! |
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campingbox
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 1:07 pm Post subject: Re: The Paris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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| Red Fau Veh wrote: |
Sweet! Did you meet the owner Mike? |
Probably not, but I can't recall for certain. I'm usually pretty shy so I most likely just snapped some pictures and went back to dig through the swap meet.
I remember thinking it was neat how little hackage was done and how nice the truck was overall. |
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Malokin Martin
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: The Paris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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sweet ride! I'd never do the conversion, but I sure as hell would drive it if I had it.
So surprised it hasn't sandwiched in the middle with that much of the center missing. |
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brettsvw
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peecee69
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 5:16 am Post subject: Re: The Paris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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| I love the felt flags. I was going to say this bus or its owner must have spent some time in Michigan. I've been to Frankenmuth, and it's like being in der fatherland! |
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ToolBox
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 9:02 am Post subject: Re: The Paris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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| I love the felt flags. I was going to say this bus or its owner must have spent some time in Michigan. I've been to Frankenmuth, and it's like being in der fatherland! |
Mike used to live on the West side of Michigan. He would drive that thing to most of the local shows. |
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cru62
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 8:12 pm Post subject: Re: The Parris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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For the record it is "Perris". Pretty cool that one could order such a one-off build of that quality. And it has been pampered for its whole life.
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Red Fau Veh
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: The Parris Valley Single Cab conversion |
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It is neat, here is pic showing the stove and ice box and one of the propane tank and the sink drain hose
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1971 Deluxe Sunroof Bay 1905 stroker, dual idf40's, 74mm Scat forged crank, engle 110 cam. CB 044 heads, AutoCraft rockers, chromoly push rods
1973 Orange transporter stock type 4 with dual 40 Dellortos and Empi single quiet pack
1969 Adventurewagen blue whale Gene Berg 1776 built by Dave Kawell dual 36 DRLA's, Vintage Speed exhaust, Bosch 019 screamer
1961 Swivel Seat camper, L345 grey
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