"The Toaster" ~ Personal History and restoration

[DadaCheese]

[BulliBill]

No sweat guys! Awesome that you'll be getting to Wolfsburg. Be sure to spend a day in Autostat with their nice museum, but be sure to go over to the older VW Siftung Automuseum a couple miles away from the factory for lots more old VWs! A factory tour is also highly recommended! Call/email if you need more info!

Bill Bowman
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Coeur D'Alene - Lake Shore Volkswagen
Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton

Thanks for any help!

[DadaCheese]

Sunday, February 25th, 2018
Great day for a drive!

Kathy and I got together yesterday with a few members of the great rag-tag group/club Deutchland Drivers.
It's a "club" connected mainly just via Facebook which encompasses the entirety of the greater Bay Area.

There are oddly few VW clubs in San Francisco and the East Bay (Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond) of California, so this club does a pretty good job of at least keeping everyone in contact.

Joseph (seen with full beard on the left below, owner of the 1971 squareback in the picture above, named; "Sally") organized a great cruise for anyone who could make it from Vallejo, CA to Sonoma and back.

Primarily on roads less traveled, we drove up and over lush green hills, through redwood groves, alongside Lake (reservoir) Hennessey, but also witnessing occasional scorched areas and completely destroyed homes that were victims of the October 2017 Northern California wildfires.

Kathy drove her '71 Ghia, and I piloted The Toaster.

It was an excellent group of folks, and we all got to enjoy a Mexican restaurant together in Sonoma.

Adam's 1959 bus we know well as we are often at the same meets, and he lives not too far, over in Martinez, CA.
Ralph, driving the 1971 convertible Beetle also lives in our town, and his entire family drives air-cooled VWs.

Today (Monday) it is raining in this part of California, but yesterday was perfect.
Hope you all have the chance to also be out and about in your buses.

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[swiss_bulli]

Great story! I read through all of it. Cool, that you are able to make it to Wolfsburg finally. It is also on my list to do. If you ever make it to Switzerland, I‘m glad to offer you some Chäschuechli .

[Abscate]

I think the Toaster would look great in Colorado Red...

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[DadaCheese]

[Abscate]

Ive got you on radar DadCheese

Im doing a lot of work North of you so Ill catch you one of these times
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[DadaCheese]

Toaster Treasure discovered!

Discovered among papers in my parent's garage and sent up to me, I believe this is The Toaster's original manual.

Short recap: The Toaster (1967 Westfalia) was a tourist delivery.
My grandparents were the second owners, buying it from their neighbors around 1969.
My parents started driving it in the early 1970's when my grandfather couldn't drive any longer.
I began driving it in 1987, and it has been mine since then.

My dad likely tucked this manual into our family's garage back in the 1970's (yes; there's lots of junk that hasn't been touched in my parent's garage since then).

The two (non-VW) Triple-A pieces of paper in it (including a service guide for AAA-approved shops) are both copyrighted 1971.

Have other folks seen this particular manual cover before?
Might it specifically have been from the tourist delivery (which The Toaster is), or was this manual cover provided with ALL 1967 buses?
Either way, I DO believe this is the original manual that came with our Westfalia.

In other news...
There's a bus event tomorrow morning in Santa Cruz, CA.
It's not listed here on TheSamba.
This seems to be organized/listed on Facebook:

"Buses and Baristas"
Saturday, March 10th, 8 AM - 10 AM
3701 Portola Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95062-5163
"Coffeetopia is excited to welcome us to their spacious parking lot for Buses and Coffee. Hope you can make it!"
https://www.facebook.com/events/2135555199999623/

Kathy and I will see if we can make it... it does mean (for us) getting up pretty early to drive to Santa Cruz to have coffee, and I'll need to have some coffee in order to go get some coffee.

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[srfndoc]

Sweet find Bryce. Mine is also a TE 67 Westy and came with the same manual as yours along with a bunch of other manuals (Dealer pickup locations in Europe, etc) but my dealer folder was missing. It was sold at Bob Smith VW in Hollywood so I assumed would have come with a blue dealer manual from there like others but who knows.
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[otis_bartleh]

Nice find !!!
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[EverettB]

Nice! From what I have seen, The 1967 manuals seem to be harder to find, especially in that condition, so that is a serious score.
Even better that it's the original.
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[Abscate]

Are you still on your original engine case Bryce?

Looks like your engine number on the manual...
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[norcalmike]

Im glad you and Kathy could come out. Hope to see you again in Santa Cruz!
Next meetup is April 14.
Same spot, same time.

Mike

[DadaCheese]

Random unimportant musings.

1) Got some nice birthday gifts in the mail thanks to my mom.
2) Will be visiting Wolfsburg for a day in the middle of April (first time!).
3) Gathering engine peripherals/tin to swap on The Toaster's engine before summer is over.

These arrived at work today from my mom... well, she wanted to order them for me (they were on my birthday wish-list that Kathy sent over to my mom), but my mom called me and said; "I don't have an eBay account, can you order them and I'll pay for them?" My mom is fairly savvy with her computer, she is also 81, however. There's a nice VW-branded coffee canister that will be arriving too.

The stuff this guy has (German "store" on eBay) are nice, but not terribly cheap.
However, this decadence is lovingly accepted as a gift from my very kind mom.

Here's some of the shop's VW paraphernalia:
http://stores.ebay.com/jakobs-sammelsurium?_dmd=2&_nkw=vw

WOLFSBURG
Yep; finally going to see that town. ...and the factory, and the Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen.
Only one day though, because our trip to Germany will be a total of two weeks this time and we hope to see 90% of our friends while there.
That goal has us driving all over the northern 3/4ths of the country; Frankfurt, Bad Nauheim, Uelzen, Berlin, Mainz... and a number of towns in-between.
We'll be driving around in a 5-door Fiat Tipo that a friend is getting for us to use through his work.
It's been many years since we've gone and visited friends. We can't wait to be back. I'll try to post some VW photos, particularly of Wolfsburg, during our trip.

Gathering Tin
Since I use The Toaster often (not daily, but typically 4 times a week or so), when I do the project of replacing our heat riser intake manifold (The Toaster's heat riser is blocked), I'd like to get all the best/correct tin I can onto the motor (including flaps and thermostat) quickly, so I am buying and prepping parts in advance. What I already have on there (if/as any of it is correct) I'll be able to work on more leisurely to have as back-ups and/or if any of it is applicable to Kathy's '71 Ghia some of my old stuff might end up on her car one day.

NO; I don't have the original engine in the Toaster; likely this 1600 block is from a '70's bug or something.
Plus, I have been using a dog-house cooler since the late 1980's, and I will be keeping that as part of our engine's set-up.
As a guide to what tin pieces I need, I've been using one of Clara's photos of tin she did for her dad's bus.

New to me Manifold from vwsplitman:

Driving around the Bay...

Just a snap-shot photo from a Costco trip this past Saturday. Odd weather day; rained half the time, and the other half it looked like this:

I hope all of you are out and about enjoying the early spring in your buses.


EDIT ~

The coffee canister arrived! Holds a pound of coffee. Should fit in our SO-42's "spice rack".
This is just the kind of coffee container I've been wanting for The Toaster.

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[Pinetops]

Looks like some fun adventures!
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[DadaCheese]

Not much split-window bus information in this post, but Kathy and I arrived in Germany today.

Before we left, a co-worker of Kathy's gave us this nice 1955 VW ad... likely a reprint, very nice of her to think of us and get it at a paper-related swap meet:

...and these great 90-cent (Euro) postage stamps sre currently in the post office; that"s the current rate for a postcard to the U.S.

Haven't checked it out up close yet, but this Bay Window postal bus, owned by a local butcher near our friend's house in Steinfurth is for sale, roughly $17,300:

...and our friend's daughters made this nice craft-art split-window bus for us left on our pillow:

More updates about our current Germany trip (if VW related), later on. Particularly after our visit to Wolfsburg.
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[crofty]

as well as '65. My UT Westy has the same binder