I’m loving this! No sooner do I put up a VW Type 2 post, and a couple of new related shots appear from the CC Cohort (this one from Davo). This is proof that the bus has achieved cultural immortality: a vending machine, obviously a (bad) copy, but who would have imagined this in 1968? I hope there’s one at the Grossglockner Tourist Shop. BTW, those wheels are so not VW, but they ring a bell. There’s more from the CCC Flickr brigade, and not just buses:
This was part of a set of VW bus shots added by jimandmandy. It’s almost identical to this shot from my Snowy Walk.
Not exactly VW buses, but this shot of a couple of vintage Ramblers by channaher really speaks to me. reminds me I need to run my ’64 Classic CC, and shoot a similar Rambler like the back one I just spotted. Thanks for the nudge. And check out all the other new goodies posted by the Cohort, including a Fiat 500.
They have those corny vending machines placed in malls here in Michigan.
Those two buses remind me of this spot in the road in eastern Tennessee that I pass when I travel down to see family. Near the road in front of this old house sits two VW buses. What’s significant at this point is that they have been sitting in that exact location since at least the 1980’s. When I saw them last summer they were quite rusted. I keep telling myself that I should stop and shoot some pics, but I have yet to do it. I’m thinking that if they are still there later this summer when I pass by there, I’m going to have to do it.
Yup they’ve got one here in the mall in Gallup, NM too. The most disapointing thing about it to a child of the 1980s like me is that when your far away coming up on it, you start to think it might be the famous “Mystery Machine.” (Scooby Doo)
I was one of the guys that built the vw crane machines. I happened to be the last person that drove the original vw bus that was used to make the fiberglass mold out of. We had to change some of the features of it to not infringe upon vw copyright. The windshield on some of the earlier units had actual 1968 vw windshields and wheels… The later ones were flat panel windshields. The company that i worked for was called W.C. Designs.