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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.
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I'm really digging the new History Channel show American Pickers. While they haven't (yet; unless I missed it) drawn attention to it, there is a vintage VW Bus truck in some of the scenes back at the Antique Archeology headquarters. On the site for the business, I found this killer shot of the truck. There is also a thread on The Samba talking about it... sweet ride and a fun show.
I hope the show is a success and that they have enough recorded for the rest of the season.... I imagine at some point the family members at home watching Gramps sell an old sign for $50 that they flip for $3k will go after them; ironically with an antique pitchfork. I'd choose a different getaway vehicle than the VW if I were those guys, for sure!
We take lots of cool pictures of random VW Buses and one that we took in Dallas, Texas got selected by Schmap to represent Deep Ellum. Killer. Its a pretty cool shot that I embedded below. The screen shot is of our picture on their iPhone app. Cool.
Team VW made it through Week 7 of Bullrun. They came in next to last, but managed to beat out the other two teams in the challenge. Luckily they didn't have to use the VW Bus in the challenge or they might not have done so well.
The way they edit the show really makes the outcome of both the main rally and the challenges unknown. So Team VW Bus pulling out the challenge win was suprising.
The show is certainly more entertaining than it was in weeks 1 and 2, as I eluded to in the last Bullrun post. They are showing more of the interactions between the teams and within the teams. Of course, that also means we get to see Team VW Bus peeing into the wind and having it spray back on them. Fun, wholesome, family entertainment right there. But like one of the VW guys said, "at least it was my own pee."
Quality.
Follow @ilovevwbuses on Twitter... all the cool kids are doing it.
I took a trip to Alaska to see the family and stumbled upon the mother load in Wasilla. I did see, but was unable to get pictures of, a late-model bus driving around Anchorage and a very unique late-model bay-window truck... at least I think. It was too far away to get a picture. Here are some of the pics from Wasilla, Alaska at K&M Import Car Service and Parts:
See more on our Flickr Photostream.
My theory is that people think "hmmm... it would be cool if we drove our bus to" Fairbanks, Mt. McKinley (Denali), or some other northern destination along the Parks Hwy, only to discover that, in fact, it wasn't a good idea and they broke down. Just a theory.
Also, one of our most popular pictures is from a 2006 trip to Alaska in the winter (pictured below).
I drove by the spot where it was parked on this trip and was pleased to see that it was still there and still covered in snow. Presumably, when the snow melts they drive it around since it was in a different place than before.
I just need to vent. A Vanagon is not a Bus. We all know that. But sometimes, from afar, even the most trained eye can be fooled into needing to get a closer look. A good example that other, normal people might understand. Imagine you are walking around in Hollywood and you see someone that has to be a celebrity in the distance. You want to get closer to take their picture. You move in closer and BAM! its freakin' Pauly Shore. That is what it is like when I think I see a bus and it ends up being a Vanagon. Stupid Vanagons! And Alaska is full of them, by the way!
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