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Wild West Wagen • From the outside this custom Dove Blue Panel Van looks just like – a custom Dove Blue Panel Van! Open the cargo doors however and you step straight into a wild west saloon!
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News and Products • Offers and deals for you and your bus
Kangaroo Jack • If you haven’t spotted any Slambassador creations built by their head honcho and master fabricator, Denis Cunliffe, we can only assume you’ve been living off grid, welcome to the world.
Bus Doctor • Steve Leatham answers some of your questions…
Camper Mail • Your chance to share a pic, story, a tip or even a grouse!
How To Repair Sills • Part One: In the first of a two-part series, Herbie Hospital reveals what’s involved in replacing a sill on a Bay Window.
Restricted Access • If you’re not running on air then you’re not getting through the front gate.
Purple haze • Owned by Cheryl Drew and Darren Jones, the driving force behind Dubs Collective, this striking T5 custom camper really is a van for work, rest and play.
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Behind the scenes: • Coastal Campers & Coastal Refinishers
Never Ending Story • An Endless Summer? We should be so lucky. But the show must go on.
Early Westfalia Brochure • We love a puzzle here at Camper HQ, recently Frank Hughes wrote to us about a find at an auction he wanted to know more about, so of course we called in our brochure guru Richard Copping to shed some light …
The Barefoot Chef • Stumbling from fiasco to fiasco this month…
Tasmania in a T3 • We left Brisbane bound for Tasmania and the bi annual Wooden Boat Festival via the town of Orange my sister’s big Birthday bash.
Kings of the Castle • Take one haunted castle and it fill it with VWs = Dubs At The Castle
Blues and twos • Formerly used by the German Red Cross as a civil disaster incident control vehicle, this ex-Caravelle, still in original paint and with its original flashing lights and sirens, only needed the DRK livery and signwriting re-doing to look exactly as did it when in use years ago.
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This month in the Workshop • What a view to see first thing in the morning opening the workshop shutter and being met by not one, not two, but three Samba Deluxe buses all being worked on and restored to their former glory.
Brochure Line Happy Days are Here Again • In which we take a glimpse at the Bus offered on the Nigerian market in 1982
Skool’s Out! • Over the past eight years Kent VW show has established itself as an event catering for all the family
Sun-bleached Sundial • Original paint and patina, and a mix of stock and custom styling features, make this 1963 Sundial Camper stand out in a crowd
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Three shows in twenty-four hours! • A whole week of shows, events, open houses and vintage VWs – yes, it’s SoCal week!
Torvette Time Capsule • Devon’s Bay Torvette conversion was only available from 1968 – 70, so finding one still in original condition is very lucky indeed.
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Bus Trader • VW campervan classified adverts.
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay •...