I don't see a unique paint scheme any more crazy than Porsche engines in
lead sleds or $1800.00 alloy 17" inch wheels on Vanagons.
It's pretty hard to have a good time driving a 66 VW Bus around Texas
without air conditioning or getting on the highway with cars and 18 wheelers
running 80 + Mph.
So anything that can make driving one more fun is on the table as
reasonable.
I had a set of murals from Movie Banners of "The Illustrated Man", a 1969
Rod Steiger classic.
It was my plan to transfer the Tattoos in the mural to a Splittie bus I had
........... Thus inventing the "Illustrated VAN". Sure pure corn! But
something like that would be a sure hit at Burning Man or any of VW event
throughout the country.
"but I question the guy's sanity" ............. ask Vanagon owners how they
justify investing the full price of the van again within 1 year of buying
their van, or buying a $4000.00 engine job for a van that can be replaced
for less and probably with a later model.
I watch Porsche 912 buyers pay $3600.00 for a restorable car when they can
buy a decent 912 daily driver for $5000.00. Clearly it's going to cost them
$5000.00 and several years of hard work to restore what they bought.

Stan Wilder
http://www.engineceramics.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: David Brodbeck [mailto:gull@gull.us]
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 1:31 PM
To: Stan Wilder
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: ultimate sleeper porsche rusting van -- just for fun post,
skip if you ar...

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Stan Wilder wrote:

> 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.

Sort of the Volkswagen equivalent of those bullet hole decals, eh?

That's really clever, but I question the guy's sanity.  Takes all kinds, I
guess. ;)

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Volkswagen Diesel Westfalia
'86 Volvo 240DL wagon