March 25, 2009 @ 8:02 am

Essential VW Campervan Books - our top picks

Here are my personal favourites from the wide range of VW Camper titles. They cover the essentials from understanding the different models and configurations, to designing and restoring interiors, from sorting mechanical issues to restoration and ongoing maintenance.

VW Camper – the Inside Story is a really comprehensive guide to the models and seemingly endless interior conversions and configurations. Great for tracing history and background of models when you’re buying, or just admiring VW campers.

VW Campers an A-Z is a straightforward guide covering the model variants right through the first forty years of the type 2.

How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is essential for air-cooled fans. It’s a step by step which goes back to the 60’s, so has a whiff of nostalgia and fun as well as being a mine of hands-on information.

The Haynes VW Transporter Guide is as thorough and clear maintenance and restoration guide as you would expect – good reference and well put together.

VW Camper Inspirational Interiors is a new book – with a wide selection of interiors from simple originals to the truly bizarre and some great ideas in-between. If you’re planning an interior project it’s ideal – and it oozes VW appeal if you just love campers.

Finally there’s Campervan Crazy – which is what it’s really about: travelling with your bus. It’s a tribute to the VW Camper lifestyle and all the great people who drive VW campers.

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February 22, 2010 @ 11:34 am

Bay Window Camper - with grafted on caravan

The Barn, originally uploaded by Tony Spencer.

There are many bespoke and short run productions of vw campervan internal fitments, carried out by coachwork companies and garages.

There are also a number of examples of caravan adaptations, most often on later vw camper van models such as the vw t25 camper. This is a South African model from 1976. We’ll be tracking down more examples of caravan bodies and RV adaptations in future posts.

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February 22, 2010 @ 11:22 am

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February 5, 2010 @ 4:50 pm

Tilly the 1971 custom VW camper van hired from dubhire.co.uk in London

Original 1971 Dormobile VW camper custom - mint! Available for weekend hire and short breaks. London based Dubhire offer original VW camper vans to hire - perfect for festivals - 6 foot star gazer roof, amp and sub for music lovers, fridges - 7 foot full width bed, thermal window matts. Ideal for a surf trip to cornwall!
Filmed by David Lee of Tiktaa in June 2009

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February 1, 2010 @ 4:59 pm

VW Campervan - With Rust

Often VW bay window campers look fine on the surface - but rounfd the wheel arches, all along the lower panels and engine bay, rust can be a major problem. This one took a years work to get it back on the road.

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January 6, 2010 @ 4:59 pm

VW Camper Van Events - a great way to get started

VW Campervan owners and ethusiasts are a sociable lot. There are regional and local groups who meet up regualrly, clubs for each type of VW camper van and larger-scale events during the summer and autumn/fall.

There’s normally lines of each type of model for people to admire and and you can chat to the owners, competitions are serious, there’s always car spares and related VW camper stuff for sale, plus entertainment and a lot of socialising.

its where like-minded people meet up and swap stories, share problems, discuss ways of improving their VW camper vans, plans to go travelling, what project to start on next.

If you’re new to VW campers it’s a great way to get started. Going to an event will help find your way round the different models, work out the pros and cons of each one, think about what kind of campervan you might buy, what you want it for, where to find a god VW camper van and how much the different models and different condition campers go for. People are always willing to help a newbie so you get enough informatiojn to get started.

We’ll be collating events lists to include them on this site as the season gets started, so come back soon.

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December 14, 2009 @ 4:58 pm

VW Campervan / Surfbus for sale - VW T4 Transporter camper

My lovely VW campervan for sale

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November 9, 2009 @ 4:57 pm

VW Campervans! (Harewood House ‘09)

This is a slidehshow of pictures that I took of VW campervans during the show at Harewood house on 15-16.8.09. Enjoy them.
Don’t forget to state when your favorite one comes on!