The auction house famous for high dollar sales of classic and other collectible vehicles will be offering up this 87 VW Vanagon. It will be interesting to see what it goes for. There is already some speculation about the history…
The pop top is one of the first major steps of our project Westfalia project. The luggage tray was torn almost completely off when we bought the van. The pop top was in good shape, just moldy on the inside…
To Edmonds The ride to the Edmonds ferry from north Seattle only took only a few minutes going down Interstate 5. It was earlier in the day. Sunday morning at ten. The slowly Vanagon was nearly floored trying to…
A big part of enjoying the great outdoors and the freedom that a Transporter can bring is not having to worry about things while you are hiking or floating the river in your canoe. Losing your keys and other small…
Anyone that has had a vanagon Westfallia has noticed that little button near the outlets at the back seat. That button is a 15 amp circuit breaker. What this does is keep your wiring from burning up if you plug…
Bridge of the Gods was built in the 1920’s. It connects Washington state and Oregon over the Columbia River and crosses near the Bonneville Dam in southern Washington. Riveted steel beam construction bridges from this era are not so common anymore and…
Group 41 is the largest biggest standard flooded lead acid battery that can fit in the stock Vanagon battery tray without modification. The group 41 battery is the DC power station sitting under the passenger seat of most Vanagons. The…
This was on a long straight slightly downhill piece of Interstate 5 coming back from Portland. It likely is closer to 75 really as the speedo is a little higher than actual speed per VWs settings.
Longtime mechanics know what they can get away with and what they cant as far as safety equipment goes. Some cannot. As a preemptive strike to injury we decided to do a safety basics so that we can introduce at…
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