Awesome VW bus collection

[john walker's workshop]

[DonDavis]

Beautiful buses, fo sho.

Btw, that B. Reynolds TA was actually a Camaro to begin with?

[Evans, Marv]

Yes, beautiful buses - OK for a collection. However, I owned one bus and two campers back in the day along with some beetles, & I have to say I wouldn't own another bus or camper. I would like to have aother mid '60s bug though.

[kach22i]

I guess that I should have worked on being funnier, nice collection.

[fastfredracing]

They need some GD stickers .

[ted]

Good looking buses but, they are the worst shifting manual ever.
I like his TA cars.

[Zeke]

"Each one is worth one to two hundred thousand."

Lost me right there. They better have solid gold distributor points.

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by Zeke

"Each one is worth one to two hundred thousand."

Lost me right there. They better have solid gold distributor points.

That's what old buses are worth. I'm still waiting for split window beetles to catch up.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by ckissick

That's what old buses are worth. I'm still waiting for split window beetles to catch up.

That's what some rich comedian will pay, or Jay Leno. Even some punter in the Barrett Jackson auction. But they are not worth that.

If you follow that logic, then a '58 to '67 Rolls should be worth about a million. They're not. VW made 110,000 Samba's, the rarest. I don't need to tell you Rolls never made many cars in the VW air cooled era.

Survivors? Yes, that's probably the biggest factor here. But the 4500% increase in price over the years, if factored into the current price of a 1500 run '73 Carrera RS, then I guess it all works out, except the 110,00 vs 1500 production.

[SCadaddle]

I've got a 66 standard 11 window walk through microbus. Have owned it since about 1991. It's absolutely insane what they are selling for, even through Bring A Trailer auctions, which I would consider current market prices.

[Zeke]

I had a '67 walk thru but no windows except the usual. And a little bit bigger rear window due to the year. I bought it with the normally dropped valve on no. 3. Drove it a couple years as a work truck when I was house painting. Sold it for maybe a grand.

The funny part is I bought a Dodge truck and my business doubled almost immediately. I had the long hair and along with the bus I guess the image wasn't what my customers wanted in a painter. (They were always older who could afford painting by a contractor.) This was in '75.

[john walker's workshop]

I'm down to a '71 single cab, which still brings a lot more than they used to. Runs ok, but thinking of plugging in a 2.0 911 engine for a bit more power. Should be fine against the stock bus trans. Done a few in the past. Gotta spring for a set of new fold down gates from Klassicfab. It was one of my many bus pickup shop trucks that I was lucky enough to buy back. They do drive a whole lot better than the splittys.

[wildthing]

Back where I came from they were called Kombis. Never had one and haven't desired one, but I respect those who drive and enjoy them.