Posted on 08/22/2013 8:00:47 AM PDT by rawhide
Edited on 08/22/2013 8:01:57 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
After all these years the Kombi is officially fried out.
First introduced to the world in 1950, Volkswagen
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The band I played in during the ‘60’s had a ‘63. I remember packing up in the snow after playing a Frat Party at Dartmouth, then heading back to Maine. I was sitting in the front with the “heater” vent next to my left foot. After almost 3 hours of riding, the snow that was on the floor from my boots had NOT MELTED!
Yeah, I remember that one. I still have a CD with it.
Traveling in a fried-out Kombi,
on a heavy trail, head full of Zombie,
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous,
she took me in and gave me breakfast...
Friend’s dad had one— and he was ace mechanic/electrician.
He eventually came to hate it== called it “Hitler’s revenge” LOL.
there is a large Kombi club travels all over the US. Great folks who are gonna be upset with this. But they like the old Kombis anyway and tweak the devil out of them.
You sure never see them in Germany on the autobahn anyway. Just not fast enough and it’s verboten to stop on the autobahn even with a breakdown.
I have a ‘72 (bought new after having wrecked a used ‘69 on a Colorado mountainside) Campmobile that has been sitting in a shed for about a decade and half. All three of my kids drove it during high school. I had it painted a kelly green, so my kids’ friends called it “the pickle”.
It needs a lot of restoration (engine & body), but I haven’t found anyone around here who does that now.
If anyone knows someone in/near the Kerrville, Tx, area who restores VWs, please let me know. :)
Cool song Sarge. It is “hippie trail” not “heavy” though.
And years after, the publisher of a childrens tune won a royalty tune-theft suit against the Men at Work band for the flute line in the middle of the tune. The flute solo was exactly “ The Kookaburra Song” published in the 30’s as a school song. Quite a settlement they got. Video the band did had the flutist sitting in an “old gum tree” just like the lyrics to the old song— so they kinda knew.
Song is still cool— the lady does “speaka my language” and gives him a “vegamite” sandwich. (Vegamite aussie popular spread— however makes me hurl).
Oh, I REMEMBER that!
Some music teacher of mine once lamented that there are only eight original tunes in music history, and all other are plagiarized off those eight.
“I learned to drive a stick, illegaly, at the age of 12 on a 63 bus with no back seats.”
My first time was a 67 yellow Ghia.
In 1964-1965, we played a similar game--for a beetle, you'd yell "beaver!" and win a point. A microbus was a double beaver. worth two points. VW pickup trucks, which were starting to become scarce because of the "Chicken War" between the US and the EEC were triple beavers, worth three points.
Our first Microbus was turquoise and white. It was a '62, purchased at Walter von Hoff's VW dealership in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, in September, 1961. Later, we got a '66 Camper--a Microbus fitted with a sink, a closet and louvered windows--that we kept until 1982.
What about the shovels and rakes and implements of destruction?
Heater was either on or off...and by that I mean it was either wired and on all winter or disconnected and off all summer
I had a 72 and loved it while I owned it in my youth. Went all over in it and it was slow but fun going.
10-4!
The 40 hp was a 1200 cc upright engine.
Yeah .. I forget the numbers ... mine was called a pancake engine
It was my daily driver for years....Went to Baja on a few surfing adventures.
Damn thing is worth a lot of crazy money these days....
Sits in my garage..these days. Like money in the bank.
Old roommate had a very, very nice square back. Wish I would have bought it from him....
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