Innholdsfortegnelse for April-16 i VWT Lifestyle

Brake system overhaul Having recently gone through the brakes on our old project Bay Window, the Panzerfaust, we found Just Kampers had everything we needed at wallet-friendly prices. From a set of front brake shoes for £26.50 to a replacement master cylinder at £71.50 and the essential 46mm socket for removing the rear hub nuts at £15.95 JK had everything we needed to have our Bay stopping on a dime once more www.justkampers.com BAY WINDOW THROTTLE KIT If you own a right-hand drive Late Bay from 1972-1975 that has an iffy accelerator linkage, Simon Buttsworth can help. Under his Butty’s Bits banner, he makes parts no one else makes that make all the difference to how a Bus drives. These new throttle kits feature sealed needle roller bearings at each…

’72 Crossover Bay, Chris Peacock Tell us about your Bus She’s a ’72 Crossover bought from a very nice man on eBay (very luckily I might add). I’d been looking for a Bus for four years when I came across her and went for a viewing. So it was all plain sailing then? Not exactly. The ad stated she had a gearbox problem and, whilst I was looking at it, the listing ended and I thought I had missed out to another eBayer. What did you do then? I left the seller my number and he rang me a couple of days later to say the highest bidder was messing him about and the Bus was mine if I was still interested. According to eBay rules, he had to give…

“It’s all down to my daughter, Amy, she’s Campervan mad!” In 1982, a factory-fresh Devon Moonraker Type 25 with two-tone paint and a 1.6-litre diesel engine option (yes, just like the one popping from these pages) would set you back a pleasant looking £9,293. Dig out some internet wizardry in the form of an inflation calculator, though, and that figure becomes decidedly less appealing at £31,867.99, suggesting this was a pretty darned expensive Camper in its day. Ironically, however, it was numbers more akin to the second group that set Paul and Amanda Wood on the path to choosing a Camper from Volkswagen’s third generation. Paul explains: “It’s all down to my daughter, Amy. She’s Campervan mad! Her room is full of them. I think she must have around 40…

“It feels like you’re about to rip the steering wheel off sometimes” says boss man Peene of trying to coerce the beloved Panzerfaust into a parking space. There’s no doubt the pleasure of piloting either an Early or Late Bay is drastically reduced by the clunky, heavy, cumbersome steering that becomes all the more apparent if, like a lot of Bus owners these days, you drive your Bus as well as a modern day vehicle. So what do you do? “Don’t fight steer, Lite Steer” says the tagline that supports Neil Oakley’s DIY power steering conversion for VW’s venerable Bus (Type 25 kits are also available). The unit comes fully assembled, you just bolt it in and follow the wiring instructions. No welding or floor work is required and the…

With over 100 trade stands expected, situated inside and out, The VolksWorld Show is the biggest and best place to buy parts for your Volkswagen. We’re sure you will find what you are looking for, and with hundreds of show-only deals, it’s an opportunity too good to be missed Surrey Hall A H SchofieldBurt’s Bus EmporiumCamperVanTasticCarole NashCohesion ClothingCool Flo VintageCustom & CommercialDanbury MotorcaravansDub Dub and AwayHot Rod TikiJGE / JavaJust KampersKingfisher KustomsLime BugM6 FootwearMadmatzMeguiar’sMidland WheelsNewton CommercialNLA VW PartsNoise KillerNorton InsurancePanasonicPucca ScreensRugs for BugsSky TagSpace Roofs (O’Connors Roofs)Stateside TuningThe VW Engine CompanyTitan BedsType 3 DetectivesVanWorxVintage SpeedVintage VW ToursVoodoo VWVW BooksVW Camper CurtainsVW EmporiumVW Heritage Esher Hall Aircooled AccessoriesAndi’s FinestBJ’s Speed ShopBreak With TraditionButty’s BitsDragonfly TreatsForge Custom CyclesVeeWeeMegabugMCJ ImportsV-Dub IslandVWorksVanwurks Sandown View Barney’s GizmosBoardroom TechMatilda and MancysTC TradingThe TT StoreThe Gadget StallTop…

THE HOPE BUS Hi C&B, I’m sure this letter starts like many others you receive, but I want to share my journey with you. I’ve been a VW fan since the age of 18 when I first got my licence growing up in South Africa, having moved there when I was eight years old from The Netherlands. I found my first VW, having spotted it parked up a few blocks from my house in a suburb of Cape Town. It was a beautiful and all original ’61 Beetle. It was always in the same place, the grass was growing up around the wheels and I guessed it was dead, so I plucked up the courage, knocked on the door and asked about it. It turned out the guy was a…

We know there’s a bit of a divide between air and water-cooled VWs, but the late model Bus brigade are doing some seriously cool stuff with their rides, that we’d love to see trickle down into the classic Camper scene. Take this month’s selection of visual delights for example. Any of these elements would look right at home in a Split or Bay and show you can be every bit as creative with a T4 as you can with a T2 or T3. SHOW US YOURS Send us some pics and words about your ride to camperandbus@timeinc.com…

When newlyweds, Mike and Sarah Rayner, began their search for a Camper, it was a chance meeting with Steve Johnson of Johnson Autoworks (www.johnsonautoworks.com) that changed everything. You see, until then, the Rayners had been looking around at different Campers, but nothing seemed to fit the bill. Either it was the right layout and the wrong colour, or the other way round or, worse still, it had rust issues. That’s when Mike and Sarah decided to head to the Stanford Hall VW show to look for prospects. Steve: “We always have a sign on our stand at Stanford Hall that says we can source and build you a Camper. When Mike saw it, we got chatting and went from there.” Realising this was their opportunity to have the best of…

’72 Early Bay Window, Roland de Souza Roland has owned his Bay for around 15 years now, having bought it locally at Croxley Green, near Watford, where he runs his business, Croxley Tyres. He saw the Bay advertised at a local show and waited around for an hour until the owner returned and closed the deal. The distinctive paintwork was inspired by attending various music festivals such as Glastonbury and The Isle of Wight Festival. Roland is also a keen supporter of Watford Football Club, colloquially known as The Hornets, hence the smiley hornets painted on the sides of the Bus, along with a tiny mouse lighting what appears to be a, ahem, herbal cigarette. Over the years, the Bus has required some welding repairs in all the usual places,…

So what if you were given a blank sheet of paper and asked to design the ultimate camping interior for a Split Screen Bus? What would you put in it? There’s the obvious like a sink, fridge and hob, and equally obvious is the fact that such products would only be ultimate on the day they were purchased, as the market for these things is moving at such a rate that today’s latest technology is tomorrow’s, well, yesterday’s technology. The same can be said for stereo and multi-media equipment. If someone told you 20 years ago you’d have a television screen in your dashboard that talks to you and takes you to your destination while you talk to your mum on the ’phone, you’d have laughed. I know I would.…

I think it’s fair to say that a lot of the Buses we feature in Camper&Bus are owned by relative newcomers to the VW scene. With the popularity of Split and Bay Windows in the media the last 10 years or so, it’s brought them to the attention of a lot of new people, and the scene in general is booming as a result. As someone who bought his first Beetle at the age of 16 and is still into VWs nearly 25 years later, I’m always pleased to call up a feature vehicle owner and learn of a similar long life in the VW fold. Antony Gostling is one such ‘VW lifer’, who regaled me with tales of sitting in his mum’s old ’72 Bay (with no engine) as…

Our company focus this month is a dedicated outlet for VW Campers based on the Brazilian-built Bay Window. The company is based in the south east, within striking distance of London, the M25 and Brighton. Brazilian Kampers Ltd. offers not only sales of high-end used vehicles, but also after-sales servicing and maintenance. The company also offer a range of upgrades and are happy to carry out accessory fitment, too. The workshop services are not limited just to owners who have purchased their VW from the company, but is open to any owner of a Brazilian Bay Window. We spent the day with Brazilian Kampers at their brand new, purpose-built premises in Henfield, West Sussex to find out more about the company from owner and main man, Ian Harris. How did…