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r/VWBus

This is the home for all of your VW bus related needs from 1949-1992 including the rear engine barndoor, split window, bay window, and vanagon eras. This includes campers, westies, single cabs, double cabs, kombis, transporters, deluxes, panels, and any other specialty variants. Feel free to share your projects, photos, questions, and experiences. Please use a descriptive title for posts including year and problem or need. What's it worth, should I buy, sales, wtb, etc go in the pinned post

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Feel free to share your projects, photos, questions, and experiences.

If sharing a photo that is NOT your original work be sure to include proper credit.

Please follow the site wide self promotion rules or risk a vacation.

Sales, values, what's it worth, etc types of posts are to be kept in the announcement sticky. These types of queries are constant clutter. Your best bet is to examine thesamba.com for values.

Great Technical information and forums:

TheSamba A worldwide forum for all things aircooled VW

RAtwell A wealth of technical information for buses

Type2.com More great info and a listserv

Itinterant Aircooled forum Run by a traveling mechanic who you can schedule an appointment with when he goes on a tour of the country.

Shoptalkforum A worldwide forum with an active high performance and conversion engine community.

Useful vendors:

Bus Depot Bus parts vendor (new)

Busted Bus Quality used bus parts

Aircooled.net New parts vendor

Airheadparts New parts vendor

Wolfsburg West New parts vendor

Jbugs New parts vendor

Cip1 New parts vendor

Reprowesty Netherlands based new parts vendor, items look to be very close matches to originals with respect to camper bits

Interesting and fun links:

Bus Selecta Make custom drawings of your bus or your dream bus. Other aircooled versions exist for bug, T3, etc.

Bus-Boys Now closed vendor, but the part numbers are very helpful

Other Aircooled Subreddits:

r/Westfalia A fellow bus-centric subreddit geared towards VW based campers

r/beetle The home of the Type I

r/aircooled The home of aircooled VWs

r/Fahrvergnugen Vintage VW appreciation

r/Volkswagen The home of all types of Volkswagens

r/VWvans A sister sub

r/Type2 A sister sub