The things people ask about my T IIs

[Jeff Geisen]

I daily drive two type twos, so I hear the basics such as ‘what year is it?’ ‘How long have you owned it?’ Or, ‘Do you mind if I take a picture?’
They’ll ask about my Westy ‘how many window is that?’ Whenever I’m out in the single cab most people seem to think I made it out of a bus.
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I Corinthians 4: 1 thru 5

‘63 ragtop - ‘68 single cab

[danfromsyr]

yeah it's alright.
it's not people being dumb it's people being interested.
well there's still a dumb one or so, but it caught their interest anyways.
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[cmonSTART]

I drove mine to a trade show last week and whenever someone would overhear someone talking about it with me they would ask "How many windows is it?"

It probably happened 2 or 3 times that I remember.
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'78 Bus 2.0FI
de K1IGS

[Jeff Geisen]

Not dumb questions, just interesting. I honestly think more people have pity on my old rigs than think they’re cool. I’m grateful they both run well enough to get into and go. Sometimes I’ll drive them both during the day.

If l’m having a bad day and don’t feel like being an ambassador I find not making eye contact works well.
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I Corinthians 4: 1 thru 5

‘63 ragtop - ‘68 single cab

[richparker]

They are definitely a people magnet and everyone has a story. But I’m sure none of them have stories like you, Jeff. With all your XC adventures. Are you gonna try to make the 2022 Jerome Jamboree if they hood it?

We all need signs in our windows that say: $5 for you to tell me your VW story.
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’71 Westy build
Adventure thread
’65 Deluxe Build
’63 Deluxe Build

[Jetfxr69]

It does get old when everyone wants to tell me about their wifes cousins in-law, that once owned a ghia and although they never actually saw or were around said VW, have a such a strong connection to it, that they feel its necessary to share it with me.

Usually they get a half assed “ ah huh”, “ gotta go now”, from me.
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Zappa

‘77 westy Seamus
‘76 tintop Crusher
‘77 westy The Judge
‘72 tintop bastard westy Hudson

[Wildthings]

Had a guy once tell me all about his adventures in his bus with a stock 6 cylinder engine. Sometimes its hard to keep one's mouth shut.

[Jeff Geisen]

Man yeah Rich, that’s the show at the top of my list. I can roll through CO on 160 and stop in at your gorgeous place. Then perhaps y’all can join me for the last leg of the trip into AZ.

I like the loop drive from I-25 at Trinidad through LaVeta.

Anyway, I’m planning on Jerome Jam 2021.
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I Corinthians 4: 1 thru 5

‘63 ragtop - ‘68 single cab

[Lil Lulu]

Hey! I got my first, uhh, tacos in a bus just like that.
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'65 Beetle "Lil' Lulu"- Ruby Red
1600 stock from '71 bus

'72 Deluxe - Niagara Blue w/pastelwiess Camper Special 2L dual 40 Webers 002

'74 Hightop Weekender "Dixie" 1800 34 Del singles

[djdh68dlux]

[Wildthings]

[richparker]

[Jeff Geisen]

Thank you Rich. As well, if you are ever in the southeast, more than welcome here.
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I Corinthians 4: 1 thru 5

‘63 ragtop - ‘68 single cab

[jtauxe]

I get a lot of folks that are curious as to the pickups. They are generally startled when I say that no, I did not chop it in a conversion, and that VW made these this way.

We can all thank the Chicken Tax for CONTINUING to keep German trucks out of the US market. So stupid. The rest of the world has loads of them.
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John
"Travelling in a fried-out Kombi, on a hippie trail, head full of zombie..." - Colin Hay and Ron Strykert
http://vw.tauxe.net
1969 Transporter, 1971 Westfalia, 1976, 1977, 1976, 1977, 1971, 1973, 1977 Westfalias,
1979 Champagne Sunroof, 1974 Westfalia Automatic, 1979 Transporter, 1972 Sportsmobile, 1973 Transporter Wild Westerner, 1974 Westfalia parts bus, 1975 Mexican single cab *FOR SALE*, 1978 Irish 4-door double cab RHD

[Cap10323]

I mostly just get notes under the wiper asking if it's for sale.

Lots of people wave though, or give you a peace sign/thumbs up which is cool. I always enjoy returning waves.



One of the strangest but also most interesting stories happened while I was working at an engineering company a few years ago.

One of the other technicians, who was a guy in his mid 60's was always asking questions about the bus. (How long I'd owned it, what I'd done to it, etc etc)

One day we had a company party, and the Bus was parked out in the lot. He came up to me and asked if I could take him for a ride. I obliged.

We drove down this road that winds through a big park, along the side of an enormous ravine, with places you could pull off and park to have a picnic.

He had me stop at one of the places and then he just sat there for a minute staring off into space.

Then he told me a story about how his very earliest memory was coming to this specific picnic spot, on his mom's lap in their late 50's bus. And how they went to this spot every Sunday throughout his childhood, first in split window busses, then bay windows, and finally vanagons until his parents passed away.

He told me he'd never been able to afford a Bus himself, and thanked me for giving him a ride.

I think about that guy, and his story all the time.
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-Ian

'77 Westfalia - 2.0 F.I

[TDCTDI]

“Are you the original owner?”


“How many miles are on it?”…. “Are those the original miles?”


“Is it for sale?” “You want how much?!?” “I shoulda kept mine.”



I just got pulled by a cop who’s only reason to pull me over was to ask if my Thing was for sale.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[ImAddicted]

When I took Ducky out for the first time in almost a decade a few weeks back, a Volvo P80 (love the looks of that car) was coming in the other direction. I thought the driver was going to fly out the window - waving, grinning bigger than I was, and honking his horn. He ended up spinning around and following me to the gas station just to chat. Had no VW stories, just another car guy wanting to talk. Those are the cool ones. That, and when a 5 year old walks by one in a parking lot and says "hi" to the car. Back when I had a Beetle, I had a little one about 3 coming running up to it an hugged it. There's something "human" about them.
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1979 Transporter (sold)
KC1MUR

[secretsubmariner]

Had a *big man* drive up to me as I was getting out of the bus at the park. Wife and kids in the car. He demanded that I call him and tell him when it's for sale. Told him its not for sale. He continued to demand. I kept telling him it isn't for sale.

Girl rolled her window down in traffic, a quiet evening cruise. Told me she likes my van. I almost said THIS VAN LIKES YOU, TOO. But I decided to just say thanks. lol

My least favorite is people hootin and hollering at me in busy traffic trying to find out what year it is.

Or when the crackhead at the gas station asks me if I'd ever think of selling it.

Like someone else here said, on bad days or days when I don't feel like being an ambassador, I avoid eye contact and largely ignore the hoots and hollers.

I also only usually wave at other ACVW's or other classic cars. Lots of them come out in the spring summer and fall on Route 66 in Tulsa. Lots of people wave or give me the peace sign - but I don't really identify with hippie culture. I just give a weak smile or wave to be polite if I feel like it.
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-Tony
ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ
1978 Champagne Edition Bus FI
1970 Auto Fastback FI

[DocNexil]

When I got my bus a few years ago, I was expecting a lot of conversations at gas stations and such. It still happens, just not as often as I thought. I think it's because people don't expect me to be the owner. I'm 19, so I think they assume that it belongs to my dad or I won't know anything about it. Honestly the weirdest thing I've had multiple people tell me is "Oh you should paint it like the Mystery Machine!".
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1971 Dormobile "Juliett"
1970 beetle "Rudie"

[Shonandb]

Did a a tour of North America in my 73 Panel Van following the Pro Windsurfing competition back in the early 90s covering about 25,000 miles in a year and a half. Lot's of questions and interesting conversations had along the way - from deserted rural roads to downtown large cities and everything in-between.

A couple that come to mind were: a Texas Ranger at an inspection point about 50 miles from the Mexico Border asking me "what's in the compartment under the bed" as he gripped his gun more tightly and the other was a Cop in NY who clocked me at 80 mph on radar but couldn't believe it so he followed me for a few miles to make sure his radar gun wasn't broken. Laughing as he walked up to the window, he asked "what do have in this thing, a Porsche engine"?
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76 Westy with a 2.5L Subaru SOHC + Vanagon (010) Automatic Transaxle
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