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• Re: Thanksgiving Song [NVC]
  Historical mailing list - John Reynolds
  Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:16:13 -0800
  ...There is, however, Microbus involvement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM Happy Thanksgiving, Geo, Jo & Ray (the cat)
• Something to bring to the USA??
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:30:40 +0200
  The sun is burning down on your VW Microbus / Caravelle. You're thirsty and the kids are nagging for a chocolate to snack on...
• Re: 2001 auto show - microbus camper
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:38:26 -0500
  Feh! Give me a Vanagon, thank you. I don't want anything better than rum*. Or a Vanagon. * You can find it in books...
• Re: Help-Need Wolfsburg front bumper!
  Historical mailing list - Filcoff, David M.
  Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:20:21 -0600
  ...Dave 251.org 87 Vanagon 61 Microbus
• Re: The new "microbus" sucks ... a misunderstanding
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:01:54 -0400
  > The article is riddled with inaccuracies. The one that sticks out like a > sore thumb is the statement attributed to a VAG spokesperson that...
• Re: Dr. Z - (vague volkswagen content)
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:27:20 -0700
  ...I think that it had a considerable influence on the Microbus, including the rear engine. >Jim Stout >'82 Gas Westy >Madison, WI > Bucky Fuller...
• Re: Dr. Z - (vague volkswagen content)
  Historical mailing list - Mike Rouby
  Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:56:47 -0700
  ...VW > actually created the "microbus" (think tiny bus) not the Minivan. However > Chrysler took their usually full-size van line and conceptialized a > smalled...
• Re: how to read the Weakly Statz ... :)
  Historical mailing list - Sam Scholten
  Fri, 27 Mar 1998 05:40:58 -0800
  ...it OUGHT to be more obvious ... > > 50 Microbus 0, 59 Microbus 2, 68 Bus 8, 80 Vanagon 19, 91 Eurovan 1 > > NO 1950 buses...
• Re: Vanagon Samba 21 window ragtop microvan
  Historical mailing list - KIM BRENNAN
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:29:15 -0500
  ...vanagon lovers who cant afford a classic restored $50k 21 > window microbus....... > > > _TheSamba.com :: VW Classifieds - Custom 1982 Volkswagen Deluxe Vanagon 18 > Window_ (http...
• 1966 21-window For Sale (Alabama) (fwd)
  Historical mailing list - Eric Oster
  Wed, 10 May 1995 20:56:24 -0700 (PDT)
  ...1966, 21 Window, Ragtop Bus I have for sale a 1966, 21 window, ragtop microbus in fair shape. I am located in Huntsville, Alabama...
• HHMMMMMMM
  Historical mailing list - King, Robert
  13 Oct 1994 14:12:04 +1000
  ...with no soul at all) hhhhhmmmmmmmmm???? _________________________ Robert King king@tanelorn.aod.dsto.gov.au 72 Bug 76 Bus 62 Microbus (long term relaxation project)
• Re: New Microbus Website
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:53:38 -0600
  Steve, Here's a question for you. What do you deem affordable? I really can't think of anything affordable lately! I think, the...
• Re: Running on Tap Water
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:36:11 -0400
  ...here is the >required content) Vanagons? That's been done in Microbuses...just set the engine on fire and pour water on it. Burns...
• no more South African vanagons....farewell..
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 6 Aug 2002 00:48:21 EDT
  ...Hi! You'd be sad to know that they no longer produce the good old Microbus/Caravelle here in SA anymore. They stopped about...
• Re: German Wants To Join!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 25 Apr 1995 12:19:27 -0400
  ...457 >> >>Dear Derek >> >>I read in a German magazin that there is a 'VW-MicroBus Net' >>availible in the States. >>I would like to...
• The Car Talk Brothers strike again
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 20 Nov 1994 18:44:43 -0600 (CST)
  ...In particular, the nod goes to the old, air-cooled Volkswagen Microbus. Not only have I ridden camels that made my butt less sore...
• Re: VW Minivan Concept story
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:56:12 EDT
  ...As a result it doesn't look anything like a real Microbus -- > it's barely even reminiscent of it." > > Anyone have a copy of...
• Re: VW's 'new' van
  Historical mailing list - Neil2
  Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:17:54 -0700
  ...However...noises continue to be heard that under VW's new leadership > > the Microbus concept may not be so dead after all. Stay tuned...
• Re: VW says it (yawn) again...the bus
  Historical mailing list - kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
  Mon, 9 Jan 2017 01:06:59 +0000
  ...jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote: > < > > http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/01/08/vw-reboots-microbus-self-driving-electric-vehicle/96323768/ > > > > Jim >
• Re: New HEY!!!
  Historical mailing list - Jonny Miner
  Sat, 10 Sep 1994 08:30:39 -0700 (PDT)
  On Fri, 9 Sep 1994, Danny Dayton wrote: > > Hey hey! > > Where is the other 1960 microbus owner? Just left of center. > If your out...
• Re: new microbus from VW??
  Historical mailing list - Bob O'Shaughnessy
  Tue, 9 Jun 1998 22:26:30 -0400
  Joel Walker (JWALKER@UA1VM.UA.EDU) said on the date of 6/9/98 6:42 PM >it looks like a Golf station >wagon...
• Re: new microbus from VW??
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 12 Jun 1998 04:05:45 EDT
  In a message dated 98-06-11 09:54:52 EDT, vwvanagon@YAHOO.COM writes: << Chrysler was quicker to realize this and put the...
• Re: microbus website
  Historical mailing list - Paul M. Hillbish
  Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:08:00 EST
  In a message dated 1/11/01 12:12:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, JordanVw@AOL.COM writes: << another friend of mine w/ a...
• Re: 91 Vanagon GL Top Speed?
  Historical mailing list - Filcoff, David M.
  Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:22:37 -0500
  ...dave 251.org 87 Vanagon 61 MIcrobus
• barbie microbus pics
  Historical mailing list - Lee Roesner
  Tue, 3 Sep 2002 09:17:16 -0500
  You guys beat me to it...I was in a local shopping center and saw these and was nearly jumping up and down in...
• Re: � � � VW Minivan Concept story
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:53:41 EDT
  ...NET writes: > http://money.cnn.com/2002/08/23/pf/autos/microbus/index.htm > Sigh, mostly just rehashing the same things as the first...
• junkyard alert
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sun, 12 Feb 1995 17:22:02 -0800 (PST)
  Attention All MicroBus Fans!!! Attention All MicroBus Fans!! U-Pull-It on Mack Road here in Scare-amento has a '67 standard ripe fer...
• Re: Front glass
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sun, 12 May 1996 18:06:59 -0700
  ...It is a 1956 Microbus but I am of the belief that any front glass >up to 1967 will do and that both pieces...
• Re: Microbus Tranny Questions
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Fri, 7 Apr 1995 12:05:39 -0700 (PDT)
  >I was talking to an acquaintance the other day about pre-68 >transmissions, and he says there is a company somewhere that will >rebuild...
• Want bus badly
  Historical mailing list - Esquire
  Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:34:16 -0500 (CDT)
  ...Thanks! > Hi. > I have been looking for a microbus for some time now and to no avail. > If anybody knows of any microbi for...
• WTB Jump seat for Westy
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Fri, 31 May 2002 10:48:56 -0700
  Friend of mine just had their third child and is looking to buy time until the new Microbus comes out. (Otherwise his wife will...
• Re: The problem with the 2009 Volkswagen Routan isn't so much what it is as what it's not
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:01:20 -0500
  ...Owsianowski wrote: > *Interesting commments on how a MicroBus might possibly (maybe) be > built in > Chatanooga, TN:* > ** > *http://tinyurl.com/68cfxl* > > ** > > > > -- > Pete > '79 Westy "Aardvark...
• Re: Franklin Mint Microbus
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 18 Apr 1995 14:12:35 -0700
  Don Kane writes: >I just have to settle for my >little Schabak Vanagon model that sits on my monitor, and is even the same...
• Re: Re[2]: Mystery single cab splittie!
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 30 Apr 96 22:53 EDT
  ...Would that make the bus a pre-58? Raul Wilma (1982 Westfalia) Larsen (1956 Microbus)
• shift rod assembly changes
  Historical mailing list - Dieter Dworkin Muller
  Fri, 08 Sep 1995 23:27:30 -0600
  How much did the shifting assembly (primarily the rods going back to the transmission) change between, say, 1957 and 1960? My project microbus, the...
• Re: Mention of the Possible New MicroBus
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:54:13 -0400
  ...Mention of the Possible New MicroBus > > ** B Feddish <bfeddish@NETREACH.NET> wrote: ** > >>> I did not know that. I knew that VW had "Tuned" the...
• Re: Nice Video on the Cancelled MicroBus
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:46:10 -0500
  ...On Feb 4, 2008 7:49 PM, BJ Feddish <bfeddish@netreach.net> wrote: > The first problem with that new MicroBus was VW said they...
• A hippie remembers
  Historical mailing list - Cecil Eastman
  Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:57:12 +0000
  ...A local story about a young hippie, his pregnant wife, a snowy Christmas Eve in 1971 and a '63 microbus. If you're not...
• Re: Sweet Revenge
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 26 Aug 1994 15:28:52 -0400 (EDT)
  ...I gotta find me a blue and white '65 Microbus to reclaim my childhood. I might suggest a locking gas cap is in order...
• Re: YES! We Have NO Bananas! (film at eleven). and now, the stats ...
  Historical mailing list - Steve Walker
  Fri, 20 Jan 95 12:47:18 EST
  ...It is my understanding that a "Microbus" is only that bus which has the dulux package(chrome, clock, ect.), moon windows and a rag...
• fantastic super cool photo
  Historical mailing list - Marcus Elia
  Sat, 25 Apr 1998 13:43:24 +0000
  ...I just looked at the big photo of a S.African Microbus (Vanagon) and I want one. Well, more specifically, I want that famous...
• for sale: rare vanagon "jailbars" accessory hatch window trim like the old bus
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 8 Aug 2002 06:26:21 EDT
  ...it is like the ones on the old microbuses, it looks cool and protects the rear hatch glass from luggage in the rear. mounts...
• Re: 360W of Bright?
  Historical mailing list - Mike B
  Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:24:58 -0400
  ...Yes, my same friend with the Porsche powered Syncro Westy had a set of Hella European (Sharper beam) H4 7" on his 78 microbus...
• Re: Sliding rear window
  Historical mailing list - 80 Westy Pokey
  Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:47:39 -0500
  ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > >The South African Vanagon (Microbus) in production until 2002 had one side >rear sliding window on the driver's side...
• Re: Fate of the pop-top
  Historical mailing list - Conrad Klahn
  Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:11:25 -0500
  ...But I really don't think the Microbus is headed anywhere near production - let alone getting a pop-top. It's more likely that...
• Re: BusBoys~catalogs and more...(less?)
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 1 May 96 13:05 EDT
  ...Post Office should help! Raul Wilma (1982 Westfalia) Larsen (1956 Microbus) I take credit for nothing and disclaim everything.
• [f]Re: for your enlightenment and edification ...
  Historical mailing list - Steve Johnson
  Wed, 4 Jan 95 16:05:14 PST
  So Thom Fitzpatrick says: > > >and what years/models they were: > > > > 56 Microbus 4 68 Bus 13 80 Vanagon 16 92 Eurovan 1 > > _4_ '56s...
• Re: "Camping" Badge
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:18:11 +0200
  JordanVw@aol.com wrote: > It's "Camping" not "Camper". > i currently have, in my emblem collection- > "Caravelle C " > "Microbus" > "Transporter" > looking for one that...
• Re: Dr. Z - (vague volkswagen content)
  Historical mailing list - Jim Stout
  Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:59:35 -0500
  ...I think that it had a considerable influence on the Microbus, including the rear engine. Jim Stout '82 Gas Westy Madison, WI
• Re: VW's very cool high tech splitty
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:20:30 -0500
  ...cars/concept-cars/a-new-old-bus-volkswagen- > updates-a-1964-microbus-with-gadgets-203326.php> > > > Alistair > > > > '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in...
• AW: Two emblems on back of Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Christoph Boltze
  Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:43:31 +0100
  Hi Todd, "microbus" was a South African badge, a German dealer bought some from VW South Africa, you can order it here: http://www...
• Yes, Folks, it's Friday ...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 08 Jul 94 09:35:49 CDT
  ...Astounding As long as I put the top down! <chorus> My Microbus doesn't roll swiftly, If fact, it won't go very fast...
• Re: cargo hauls/fire brick&ponies!
  Historical mailing list - Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 15:41:00 -0700 (PDT)
  ...equestrian meets with her mini-pony in the back of the microbus. ^^^^^^^^^ Perhaps she could have better used the mini-van that that other...
• WTB: '65 Bus Nose, Window Surround, Safari Kit
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 18 Nov 1995 11:01:55 GMT
  ...Replacement front, including window surround, for '65 Microbus Deluxe. Must be in good condition or new. Unfortunately, Wolfsburg West is no longer supplying this...
• Re: Silver socket stuff
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 1 Apr 96 01:03 EST
  ...Exactly, what is this silver socket stuff and for what year vehicles? Raul Wilma (1982 Westfalia) Still no name (1956 Microbus)
• Re: (NVC) But my comments on the concept Microbus...
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:52:07 -0800
  On 12/22/03 10:24 AM, "Wesley Alden Pegden" <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> wrote: >> If VW really wanted to bring back buyers by...
• all us buses on the list
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Tue, 03 May 94 22:43:05 CDT
  ...WISC.EDU 56 Microbus Kombi Thom Fitzpatrick TFITZPATRICK@TIM.COM 61 Microbus Kombi Terrell Smith SMITH@SASK.USASK.CA 64 Microbus Kombi John Kuthe...
• Re: VW Micrfobus on Overhaulin'
  Historical mailing list - Richard Golen
  Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:35:18 +0000
  ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > They can't spell "Volkswagen" and you can't spell "Microbus" !! LOL! :) > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:29...
• Re: Two emblems on back of Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - Geneva Saint-Amour
  Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:58:50 -0600
  ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > I had a microbus emblem on my Vanagon that I got off of German eBay until someone ripped it off...
• FWD: Westie Owners
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Niksch
  Mon, 5 May 97 16:48:29 UT
  ...1965 microbus deluxe (it's staying here) Location: seattle, WA