Wanted: History for 1976 Typ 2 Campmobil Bay Westfalia

[Pits Bulli]

Dear Sambas ;o)

I would like to know more about the history of my sunny yellow, slightly dented Westy and would like to ask for help of the Samba family.

What have I found out already? Unfortunately not thaaaaaat much yet. (Thanks to John Tauxe for your kind help and friendly contact!!)

- Typ: 231961
- VIN: 2362154393
- L20A Marinogelb
- Last day of production: 11.06.1976 in Hannover
- Sold at 16.07.1976 in Los Angeles
- 1982 Boulder / Colorado, serviced at „Modern Specialists“, 2940 Valmont Rd. (see service sticker and Firefighter sticker)
- 2007 New Mexiko
- 2008 Los Alamos, the car was named Cassandra . Colin Kellog worked on it and got the engine running.
- 2009 – 2016 Mesa - Phoenix/Arizona.
- 2016 – Knobi International - Phoenix
- 2018 - Island of Rügen – Germany

What do you think?
What service dealers were in Los Angeles in 1976? I know Volkswagen of Downtown, Volkswagen Santa Monica...
Maybe someone knows the car or has ideas how I can find out more...?!?

Was there also a husky service station in Boulder?

Maybe someone is now shouting very loudly... "Yes... that was my crazy hippie father's or grandpa’s car...

A needle in a haystack…

Thanks and greetings

Peter

More Photos: https://www.ruegen-geniessen.de/bulli/

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[SGKent]

Los Angeles would have been the Port of Entry. It could have been sold by about any dealer in the LA area which even at that time was about 100 miles x 100 miles wide. It has been out of the California DMV system too long for there to be any records. We had a large outflow of people from California to Colorado back in the 1980's.
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[Abscate]

Husky might be the name of the guys who made the label, there is a graphic design firm named thst on Valmont that does stuff for me there
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[heyskull]

By the looks of things you already have a lot of history for this vehicle with all the stickers and labels.
Most vehicles loose their history now after 5 years, 46 years is a big ask.

SC

[alman72]

http://teamspatula.com/searchandrescue.html
air cooled search and rescue team (sticker) founded in 96

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John rescued Cassandra and sold her to someone in AZ. That’s a good provenance right there
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[Pits Bulli]

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[jtauxe]

I had forgotten how rough the bus looked, sitting in my driveway. That's my light brown board-and-batten house in the photos.
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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

[Wildthings]

[Pits Bulli]

[Pits Bulli]

[TeamSpatula]

Wow, amazing how far this bus has traveled. Ironically John and I emailed about this bus back in the spring of 2009 when he was fixing it up, I would have loved to have bought it at that time but just couldn't work out the details to get it here 2000 miles away. I did provide the Search & rescue sticker for John then as well - glad to see it's still hanging in there.
(I do still have shirts & stickers, check my ads for details)
Glad to see it's still on the road and keeping the Fahrvergnugen going! Good luck finding more details,

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I NEED A CAMPER!!!! (1971 is ideal but will consider other years)
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[SGKent]

It was there when Cathy and I visited in 2009 or so. I knew I had seen it somewhere. At John's.
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[Amskeptic]

August 3, 2009, jtauxe wrote, "I believe Jim Reeves will be showing up next weekend to pick her up, in her current condition. Working under this plan, Cassandra will be more or less his bus at that time,"

This was six days before my 30-year association with the Road Warrior would end in Colorado.

John, my memory is sorely taxed with all the Marinogelb Westies that have graced Los Alamos. I have caught what I hope are photographs of Cassandra in the scrum ... and what do you know, I now have a Marinogelb Westy.
Colin

NaranjaWesty - bought here off theSamba @ 41,836 miles on October 26, 2015, now at 155,000 miles ...

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[jtauxe]

Yes, Colin, those are the pix.

RIP the Road Warrior.

I recall that on the morning of her pickup, you and I took out this non-running bus and basically whipped it into running condition with fresh gas and a few trips around the block. We got it running minutes before the new owner showed up. He really lucked out, because I had sold him a non-running bus and he left with a running bus.

At the time I had two marinogelb (L20A) Westies and one marinogelb77 (L21H). The color difference was subtle but there is a difference.

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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

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The worst part is Cassandra can tell you the future but you can’t believe her.

“Soon all cars will be EVs”

-Cassandra
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