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Double the Fun • The Double Cab Pick Up truck joined VW’s own range of factory models in November 1958, after VW had seen the success of the double cab conversions made by Binz from 1953.
News and Products • Offers and deals for you and your bus
It Had To Happen! • VW unveils the e-Bulli
Diary of a Dormobile • Here’s a Dormobile so original that a guided tour is tempting, but even more fascinating is the paper trail that accompanies ‘Heinrich’ the D4/6. Enter at this point the owner from new until just a few years ago.
Bus Doctor • Got a problem or a query?
Camper Mail • Your chance to share a pic, story, a tip or even a grouse!
How To • Part one: In the first of a two-part series, we discover how to overhaul the front brake calipers on a Bay Window.
Air-cooled Winterfest • The first VW show of 2020, it would be rude not to start the year with one of the best! It reminds me of Bug Freeze back in the day with its focus on air cooled VWs and Beetles.
Back in Black • Whilst most people convert a bus into a camper, Dave O’Brien has taken a very different route, opting for a custom interior for his T5.1 based on a Caravelle.
VWT2OC Virtual Coffee Morning • Virtual Coffee Morning brings people together
Brochure Line • Lurking amongst Pick-ups, Delivery Vans and Station Wagons, VW Canada dropped in its homespun Camper.
The Barefoot Chef • I’ve just begun packing the bus in readiness for a season that may never happen
A Whistle Stop Tour of Europe. • Having had to leave our Bay outside Cologne due to emission zones, we took opportunity to spend the night in a hotel, catching the train to the city centre the next morning which takes you right to the Dom - the magnificent gothic cathedral that like our own St. Pauls’ stood proud amongst the burning city during the darkest days of the WW2 bombings.
Panel Van Project • Andrew Matthews used to spend much of his leisure time racing stock cars at weekends, but when he hung up his race suit and crash helmet in 2013, his wife Natasha suggested he needed a project to keep him amused.
This month in the Workshop • The month started off well and we are going to play with our newly painted barndoor samba now that we have decided the route we are going to go with the paint work.
Back to the Beginnings A trip to Wolfsburg • Having previously visited Wolfsburg back in 2015, then again in 2017, we loved the place and the people so much that last year Susy and I went back again, this time for three weeks!
Club Profile • It’s a cold and very wet day in mid - January but there are still the best part of 70+ VWs parked up in the grounds of a stately home just off the M54 near Wolverhampton for the first club meeting of 2020 for Dubs Collective.
Lucky Thirteen • For those wanting a Deluxe Microbus without a sliding roof, VW offered option M130: a Deluxe Model (with all its extras) without sliding roof or roof windows.
Taiwan Travels Part 4 • The final episode of the monumental Taiwanese trip that has made loads of lasting memories with friends old and new.
Great British Camp Out for NHS staff, April 4th • A virtual, stay-at-home show for charity - of course we had to be ‘there’ to report on the action.
Period Pastels • Converting this Late Bay into a camper has been done so tastefully and...