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A Christmas Miracle! Woman Gets Stolen VW Bus Back After 36 Years

SPOKANE, Wash. - After 36 years it is finally home. Michelle Squires' 1964 VW Bus was trailered back to Spokane this weekend from California where it was found last year. The van was stolen from an upholstery shop in the Browne's Addition area of the city in 1974. Squires thought it would never be seen again, then a customs agent discovered the stolen van at the Port of Los Angeles.

via www.khq.com

I've been keeping up with this story - but certainly not this blog! This was one story I had to post. Merry Christmas!

Tillamook Love Loaf: Home

via loaflovetour.com

Check out Tillamook's latest Cheese campaign - the Loaf Love Tour. Complete with some vintage VW Buses. Follow their progress (with more cool pics like the one below) on their Flickr stream or Twitter @TillamookCheese.

I love's me some Tillamook cheese, and I loves me some VW Buses... looks like a nice mashup. Of course, the shortening of vintage buses hurts a little - nothing a nice cheese plate won't fix.

Follow me @ilovevwbuses on Twitter.

You could win a 1977 VW Bus!

Cheerwine - Win The Chillest Ride In The Universe.

Cheerwine is having a drawing for a 1977 VW Bus. Just to clarify, this will be a bay window - not the split screen pictured to the right & on their page. No matter, the ride will come with the following:

• Custom Paint Job
• Custom Upholstery
• "Thumping" Stereo System
• LCD Flat Screen TV
• GPS Navigation
• XBox 360
• Refrigerator
• Custom 9' Surfboard w/ Roof Rack

Go enter... you might get spammed about wine, but you could also win a VW bus... and that's pretty cool.

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1963 Blue & White VW Bus stolen in LA - Lets find it!

"The bus is in great condition, in the slow process of restoring it, just had a newly built engine. God, this car is so important to him! ... A neighbor said they saw the bus around 1 am outside of Chango, with the blinkers on. It was in front of a silver sedan apparently. He assumed we were in the car. This was the last anyone has seen of the car."

via www.theeastsiderla.com

Dude... not cool. Where is the cat going to sit? We need to find this ride and fast. Check out the pictures above and help this guy get his bus back. I'm not sure the thieves realize the karma involved in taking someone's VW bus. They'll find out soon and it won't be pretty.

VW Bug-In May 2, 2010 at Texas Motorplex in Ennis

Coming up on May 2, 2010 in Ennis, Texas at the Texas Motorplex will be the 25th Annual Bug-In. Camping starts on May 1st at 6:00PM and the show, swap meet, and races are on the 2nd.

Check out the slideshow below for pictures of VW Buses from last year's (2009) event... looking forward to this year!

Slowpoke!

Driving along Highway 75 - The Central Expressway - in Dallas on Saturday, a VW Bus (not sure of year or style) passed us like we were standing still. So many things wrong with that it's not funny. I feel bad.

VW Bus Celebrates 60 Years. Again. | Autopia | Wired.com

The exact anniversary of the Volkswagen Type 2, known affectionately as the Microbus or just the Bus, is open to interpretation. Volkswagen says it’s 1947, when Dutch VW importer Ben Pon first sketched the design. You could argue it was 1949, when CEO Heinz Nordhoff approved production. Or you could say today is day because the Bus as we know and love it — split windshield, rounded front bumper that hugged the body, woefully underpowered engine — was produced from March 8, 1950 until 1967.

via www.wired.com

Happy Birthday Bus... 60 years old on March 8, 2010. And somehow, you seem so much older than that. Make sure you link through to the Time Magazine article, lots of great vintage VW Bus pics.

Cowabunga! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's VW Bus via @Jalopnik

via jalopnik.com

This is barely recognizable as a VW Bus, but I think it actually is. Its jacked up in the rear,... you know what? Its just jacked up altogether. This is weird, and I think the turtle guy is kind of creepy. Moving along...

PSA: How NOT to jack up a VW Bus

Ben Lobaugh found this pic (below) on The Samba and posted it to his blog. It shows a vintage VW Bus Walk-through Panel Van "jacked up" on blocks in what appears to be a very unstable configuration. Yes, I know this is now a third-generation post (or more, depending upon where The Samba thread started) but, well... I thought it was cool and decided to post it. Its also a nice public service announcement.

Just to give some additional credit to Ben, he has a page talking about his various VW Bus projects that you should check out. See, this isn't a bot that yanked this from his site automagically...

via ben.lobaugh.net

Craigslist Find: Advertise on this guy's VW Bus

Awesome... this guy spent $5k recently to get his 1976 Bay Window VW Bus updated and running and now wants to get his money back (or even make some money). I love it. Check out his Craiglist post and get your brand on a cool bus in the Bay Area. He says:

Sonoma County area, Santa Rosa, Windsor, Rohnert Park, Guerneville, Sebastopol, Petaluma, etc...I'll put the miles on for the right deal!!!

Here is his Craigslist ad: I want advertisement on my VW Bus