I've seen many Splitties and Bay busses with a memorable amount of rust and
lots of duct (duck, if you prefer) tape over rusted out holes and around
windshields.
One fellow was creative enough to have a pristine cream colored 66 bus and
he had painted rust on the most popular spots for rust.
From 50 - 100 + feet away it looked like a real rust bucket but up close it
was easy to see that a talented air brush artist had created an optical
illusion.

Stan Wilder

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Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 8:44 AM
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Subject: Re: ultimate sleeper porsche rusting van -- just for fun post,
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In a message dated 4/9/04 6:42:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ writes:

> It's called the Rat Look by English magazine VolksWorld. becoming
> really popular in Europe for T1s. I must say I like it!
> --
>

its been popular here for Type 2 owners for years. especially in the
Microbus/splitty circuits.. lowered splittys w/ cool rims..   not always
because it
looks "cool",  moreso because they are just too damn broke for a paintjob...

chris