This blog is about a VW Westfalia Camper. This is the 4th one that I have owned. The story starts back 20 years ago when a friend of mine got it.
20 Years ago, my old Boss got this 1979 VW Westfalia Camper, it was dirty, missing headlights and had a bad engine. I asked him why he wanted a 1979 Bay Window VW, and he said “Because…It’s the last year they made it!”. I couldn’t understand at the time, because he already owned a 1975 Westfalia Camper, which he used on many roadtrips. The interior has a stove and an electric refigerator, and not an icebox that the 1975 had. When I got it, I asked him what was wrong with it, he said it needed a motor. I said, you want a motor, well here you go.
We had rebuilt a Porsche 914 2.0 GA engine for a Porsche 914 for me. The motor was balanced and blueprinted and sitting unused, as the Porsche 914 needed too much bodywork. This engine has 30 more horsepower, and the redline is 1,500 rpm higher than the stock VW engine, so this bus moves. So, my friend used it for a few years, and then it sat until he said he was thinking about selling it, and I said that I would after I sold a pickup truck that I wasn’t using.
The above photo shows the state it was in after sitting unused for 8 years.
Please follow me on this adventure with the Bus.
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