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• Electric Vanagon via EV West?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Belanger
  Wed, 25 Aug 2021 10:09:56 -0700
  Was watching some fun videos about electric conversions of a 356 and a split-window bus <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omOUc75r39g&t...
• Hot Start Problem in H2O cooled
  Historical mailing list - John Baker
  Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:47:06 -0400
  ...Anybody have ideas or suggestions about how to remedy this? Peace, JB '66 Split Window Camper '83 H20 Vanagon "You cannot simultaneously work for...
• Re: Newbie, hello all and a question(long)
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:02:17 -0800
  Yup, at the mudfest event, we had our Vanagon Westy parked right next to our 65 split window. The Vanagon got hopelessly stuck. The...
• Re: Sulfur-like exhaust smell??
  Historical mailing list - Scott Sullivan
  Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:07:25 -0800
  ...Running too lean???? > > > > > >Peace, JB >'66 Split Window Camper >'83 H20 Vanagon > >"You cannot simultaneously work for peace and prepare for war..." >
• Re: Split Window Bus Education Begins
  Historical mailing list - John Jensen
  Mon, 19 May 2003 16:43:53 -0400
  You just reminded me of a time when I let my brakes get pretty bad on my old '66. I was living aboard and...
• Re: Other Volkswagens
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:34:51 -0400
  ...This is the Type 2, which includes rear engined Split window buses, the so called bay window buses and the Vanagons. I presume you...
• Re: WTB: One round headlight holdy-inny thing and screws, to '85
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:58:50 -0800
  ...mounting bolts. > Those might be the same from the beginning of the Split Window Bus production to the last vanagon produced, for steel wheels. > >
• Re: FS: Bentley Bus & Vanagon Manuals
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:36:07
  ...A few people e-mailed me today regarding the availability of split-window or Eurovan/Winnie manuals. Splittie bus manuals ('63-67) are available...
• Re: nicknames for the generations
  Historical mailing list - Stuart Redford
  Tue, 4 Oct 94 8:43:19 PDT
  ...all the other nicknames (split-window, > bread-loaf/bay-window, brick) refer to an external feature or the shape of > the bus. besides ... EuroVans...
• Re: wtb Type 1 van
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:21:20 EST
  ...www.thesamba.com and do a search for '50-'67 Buses....plenty of split window buses on there.. good luck- chris
• Re:Split Window brakes
  Historical mailing list - Martin Garramone
  Thu, 27 Jul 1995 07:23:11 -0500 (CDT)
  On Wed, 26 Jul 1995, King, Robert wrote: > >Have any of you made any cool upgrades to the brakes and what work was > >required...
• Re: Splits F.S.
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 25 Sep 1995 07:45:18 -0700 (PDT)
  ...7039ckrah@umbsky.cc.umb.edu thus wrote: > > 67 VW Westfalia Camper. Split window, cooler, bed, pop-top, water pump. > Has some rust. Nds some...
• Sunday Washington Post Classifieds
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Sun, 14 Mar 1999 06:52:12 PST
  ...703-494-3446. '67 Transporter, 12-volt system, split window, good body, new engine, $6800/offer. 540-722-4044. OTHER AIR-COOLEDS: '71 Super...
• I have no Bentley, Please help...
  Historical mailing list - John Baker
  Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:17:20 -0500
  ...Peace, JB '66 Split Window Camper '83 H20 Vanagon "You cannot simultaneously work for peace and prepare for war..."
• Re: Wanted: Wheelcovers! Aero-style
  Historical mailing list - Richard Paverd
  Sun, 21 Sep 1997 07:17:28 -0400
  ...VR6 SLC (Highly modified) > Red '87 GTI G60!! <---- > and > '67 deluxe split window (9 pass.) > '71 Westy Breadloaf (high performance engine B&B) > '81...
• Re: air cooled eng convert.
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:52:13 -0500
  ...After seeing countless hacked-up split-window busses I fear the same fate awaits our Vanagons. Now take it easy with the flames.
• Re: 85' Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:27:56 -0800
  ...Stan On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:35:21 -0800 (PST) Matthew Pollard <poll7356@uidaho.edu> writes: > > > It's not the 68 split window...
• NEATO applications
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 04 Oct 95 08:14 CDT
  ...The last newsletter had 30 split-window buses for sale plus a few later models and many sources for parts and accessories. Membership is...
• re: Need Help Buying a Bus
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Wed, 4 Oct 95 12:06:17 EDT
  ...If not, I'd volunteer to organize a few thoughts, but would need submissions from split window people as I got no real clue...
• Re: Any Idea what this is?????
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 2 Jul 1999 23:30:43 EDT
  ...it has skylights in the roof, and a "V" - nosed front a-la split window bus, but has the baywindow windshield. the engine is...
• Re: RE:Busses
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 18 Apr 94 13:42:08 PDT
  ...Everything > >>> without a split window is a shameless imitation. > >>> (Moment of silence, please...) > >>> Thom '56 Kombi > >>Does that mean my '91 is a "Tart...
• Split window brakes
  Historical mailing list - Bill Moseley
  Wed, 26 Jul 1995 09:42:59 -0700
  As I hit my brakes quite hard yesterday on the approach to the Bay Bridge Maze (that's the intersection of I80, I580, I880...
• a fun thing on I-280 today
  Historical mailing list - David Richoux
  Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:31:15 -0700
  ...low-rider VW Beetles (very old ones, mostly) and some super Split Window busses - there was a metal-flake purple solid body van that...
• When a 20-yr old can't afford a hippy bus
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:20:46 -0700
  Back when I was 20, I worked to barely own my 57 split window 36hp house on wheels. Fried burgers in Seal Beach, Ca...
• Re: Anyone ever see a vanagon boat top?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Ploessl
  Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:13:26 -0400
  ...about > > anyone repoing a boat that fit on the top of split window buses like > > this: > > > > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page...
• Hippie Vans?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 9 Apr 2015 06:33:47 -0700
  ...real hippie vans......I don't think I have seen a split window VW bus on the road for a few years now, and...
• Re: : Anyone running a Oettinger powered Van ?
  Historical mailing list - Lloyd McClelland
  Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:40:51 -0800
  ...kind of like with the '60 in a split window Westfalia (on hills) get that 40hp going . But the Vanagon is a lot different...
• Re: [Syncro] Why SA big brakes saved my ass today
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:41:19 -0700
  ...Try it in a split window w/ single circuit master cylinder & no disks at all for the ultimate challenge. Tom Buese-what big brakes?
• Re: double door vanagon pics..(sliding doors on both sides)
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:00:51 -0600
  ...anyone know how many of these were sold in canada? i've > never heard of one in the US... > > chris not common in split...
• Re: Anyone ever see a vanagon boat top?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:46:11 -0600
  ...about >> anyone repoing a boat that fit on the top of split window buses like >> this: >> >> http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page...
• Demographics
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 4 Apr 1994 09:02:53 -0600
  ...So, any other split >windows out there? I have a '61 double-double-door Panel <The Bozobus> and my wife has a '90 Vanagon...
• Re: Wanted: Wheelcovers! Aero-style
  Historical mailing list - Joe Wagner
  Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:15:58 -0400
  ...VR6 SLC (Highly modified) > Red '87 GTI G60!! <---- > and > '67 deluxe split window (9 pass.) > '71 Westy Breadloaf (high performance engine B&B) > '81...
• Re: Parts Place
  Historical mailing list - Mike Blotz
  Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:45:45 -0600
  ...I'm looking for a new engine deck lid for my 66 split window. he grew up by parts place and said they might...
• Re: best design feature
  Historical mailing list - bueses
  Fri, 13 May 2005 15:28:24 -0600
  ...The Vanagon flies!!!! grin I stepped UP in speed from my split window buses to my 84 Westy! The countryside is now a blurrr...
• Re: Camping at a music festival
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sun, 21 Jun 2015 21:43:03 -0700
  19 60-something...Monterey Pop Festival in a 1957 split window VW.....Yes, we were Hippies.......My first ever VW camper... Yes they do...
• Re: Kombi, Kombi, who's got the Kombi ... (differences)
  Historical mailing list - William Warburton
  Wed, 6 Apr 94 14:06:22 GMT
  ...so what the heck > is a Kombi? the name has been around since the split-window buses. surely it > means something (otherwise why not...
• Re: '56 kombi - brakes (again)
  Historical mailing list - Mike White
  Wed, 12 Jul 1995 13:02:16 MST
  > What I find funny is that it seems like all split window busses have > problems with the brakes. :) I want to replace everything on...
• Re:Split Window brakes
  Historical mailing list - King, Robert
  27 Jul 1995 09:02:31 +1000
  >Have any of you made any cool upgrades to the brakes and what work was >required? According to the encyclopedic Monsieur Lee Griffiths the...
• FS: vanagon "jailbars" rear window protective/decorative bars
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:11:41 EDT
  ...if you are a vw enthusiast, you will know that all the deluxe split window microbuses in the 50's and 60's had...
• Trade a Vanagon for a Quantum?
  Historical mailing list - bertschi
  Sun, 7 Jun 1998 22:56:20 -0400
  ...anyone in a swapping a decent (solid, straight body) Vanagon (or split-window) for a nice '84 Quantum? If you don't need another...
• Re: Benefits of a rear sway bar?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:15:42 -0700
  ...name for the split-window and bay-busses. That's what's being referred to here. Vanagon is not called a Type 2 in...
• Re: A war is brewing...
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 6 Mar 2003 19:34:06 -0600
  ...Stan Wilder 83 Westfalia Air Cooled 66 Split Window Westy (bring your the money in cash) ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today...
• for the new people:
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Thu, 21 Apr 94 16:00:07 CDT
  ...that has the differences in the model years (even for the split-windows or eurovans), i've got that junk laying around, too. just...
• Re: How original is this type II ?
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Mon, 20 Feb 1995 09:24:45 -0800 (PST)
  ...I know a sliding door was an option on late split window panel vans >but does anyone know about the two side windows? If...
• FS 64 split winfow w/double door
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 Jan 1996 09:46:43 -0800 (PST)
  hello, I found a neighbors garage and a 64 split window inside. I was looking at it and talked to the guy. He says...
• Weekender vs. Rear Seat
  Historical mailing list - John Baker
  Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:19:57 -0400
  ...feel really STOOPID if I already had one!! Peace, JB '66 Split Window Camper '83 H20 Vanagon "You cannot simultaneously work for peace and...
• Re: a fun thing on I-280 today
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 30 Sep 2001 00:36:43 EDT
  ...NET writes: > VW Beetles (very old ones, mostly) and some super Split Window busses - > there was a > metal-flake purple solid body van that...
• Cold engine Idle problem
  Historical mailing list - John Baker
  Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:35:58 -0500
  ...me like I'm a 4 year old ;-) Peace, JB '66 Split Window Camper '83 H20 Vanagon "You cannot simultaneously work for peace and...
• Re: Census
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Tue, 5 Jun 2001 07:40:05 -0500
  ...Electric Power Generation Found a copy of Hot VW's in Omaha ( which is rare ) with a split window bus in it. Right then...
• Re: Jetta/Golf/Cab mailing list?
  Historical mailing list - James Cohen
  Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:34:26 -0800
  ...stirling@aol.com Red '93 Corrado VR6 SLC (Highly modified) Red '87 GTI G60!! <---- and '67 deluxe split window (9 pass.) '71 Westy Breadloaf...
• Ohio Bus Event May 2002
  Historical mailing list - John Baker
  Fri, 16 Nov 2001 18:40:38 -0500
  ...Peace, JB '66 Split Window Camper '83 H20 Vanagon "You cannot simultaneously work for peace and prepare for war..."
• Re: Why Oregonians can't pump their own gas
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:36:35 -0700
  ...stirling@aol.com (which gets checked more often) Red '93 Corrado SLC (Highly modified) Red '87 GTI (mostly modified) and '67 deluxe split window...
• Re: What to buy? Many "buying guide" questions
  Historical mailing list - Richard A. Jones
  Fri, 2 Nov 2001 17:07:32 -0700
  ...I have owned a '61 and a '67 split-window, a '76, an '81 and an '87. I thought the '76 was the least...
• Re: Cool Stuff (LVC)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:18:09 EST
  ...the president and CEO of Simple actually is a VW fanatic....he has a couple of split window buses.. i think one of his...
• Re: Is there anyone under 60 on this list????
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:50:50 -0700
  ...I started with a split window bus but quickly moved up to bay windows. I eschewed Vanagons when they first came out as I...
• Buses on School Buses...
  Historical mailing list - Greg Schmidt
  Mon, 8 Apr 1996 11:02:25 -0500 (CDT)
  ...The bus/bus hybrid is your standard 60's vintage school bus with a Split Window welded to the top. With the partridge family...
• Re: VW TOYS...
  Historical mailing list - J. Walker
  Tue, 20 Sep 94 19:48:51 CDT
  ...old bus model? if any old bus, there are lots of split-window Microbus models that are about $20 each. (1/43 scale) and...
• Re: WTB Wheel covers for '85 Westy
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 29 Jun 1996 08:21:14 -0700
  ...SLC (Highly modified) > > Red '87 GTI (mostly modified) > and > '67 deluxe split window > '71 Westy Breadloaf (high performance engine) > 81,'85 Westy Vanagons > '66...
• A Proposition
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 Jan 1996 21:35:59 -0800 (PST)
  ...My primary focus is split window busses, as thats what I'm always trying to find parts for. I'm not particulary concerned about...
• Re: FS: 87 Syncro Vanagon parts.
  Historical mailing list - JordanVw
  Thu, 21 May 1998 12:15:38 EDT
  ...the T2 list when i parted out that running, driving, '67 split window Sundial Camper... (see: http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/turner/ ) Sparked...