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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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!

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Seen this year at the hillclimb event Osnabrück.

More about that crazy Swiss VW-Taxi you will find following the link: http://www.race-taxi.ch/

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with lost prophets

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Part 1 - Un-Completed : VW Split Interior Project. This is a 1967 type 2 camper. I’ve owned it since 1995 and only just got around to working on the interior. Its now finished but it took me 4 months end to end to complete. Look here for the finished video http://www.symplest.com/VW-Split-Interior-Project.html

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This is the first time I’d ever taken the engine out of my Bus (or anything else for that matter) so thought I’d video the whole shebang and share it, uncut in glorious 1000 times speed! All it took was three blokes, 16 hours of work/head scratching/swearing and many (MANY) mugs of tea.

The reason for taking the engine out: one of the vavle guides (the inlet on no.1 cylinder if your interested) had disintegrated, so replacing the heads was called for. Rather than have someone else do it I thought I’d give it a go…

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If you’re thinking of re-building the engine of your VW campervan, here’s a good guide on getting started. It’s an aircooled engine so will be good reference for those of you with Type 2 VW campervans.

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There have been a number of campervan concepts developed recently, this one has some environmentally friendly additions, but remarkably keeps the old rock and roll bed!

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