T5 Buyers Guide

If you want a large, practical VW you can stamp your mark on and drive daily, perhaps it’s time you look at buying a T5? Here’s what you need to check

Germany Calling

Cycling and sight-seeing whilst taking in plenty of history along the way.

Village Bus

A RHD Barndoor Deluxe Bus is an incredibly rare and very desirable vehicle and Carl Elliott’s superb ’54 is perhaps the best example anywhere in the world!

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

As the saying goes, it’s only original once. Fortunately, this retired fruit pickers Bus had been left to ripen in a farmer’s barn

Family 'Wagen

What do you do when you have a kick-ass Ghia but a large family? Simple. You build a kick-ass Bay Window Microbus as well

Status Cymbal

When drummer Nick Robin’s AA card was taking too much of a beating it was time to visit VW Downunder

I Is For Industrial

While the best place for an air-cooled VW engine will always be in the back of a VW, the industrial variants have ended up in many unexpected places as well. Including a very big gun…

Still Doin' It

After a hard working life, three engines and two restorations, you’d think this Pick-up had earned its retirement. Not quite

The Freddy Files

Paul Knight whisks us along a fun-filled, 36-hour road trip to the Freddy Files show in Ninove, Belgium

Readers' Rides

Your pride and joy is our delight to share, so here they are

L Is For LT

The LT is a forgotten Volkswagen, poorly regarded even by those who know their VW Buses. Yet it made a very fi ne Campervan, with a lot more space and size than a Type 2. And, of course, there’s that’s certain urban myth about its engine…

Readers' Mail

Got something you want us, or the rest of the VW community, to know? Then this is the place for you. Email or send it snail mail and we’ll share it here

P Is For Paint & Patina

Over the years, VWs have pandered to many fashions. That’s resulted in some quite amazing colours, from the blacks and greys of early days to the kaleidoscopic spectrum of the 1970s. Of course, some people just prefer rust…

Insufficient Funds

Not our words, but Steve Huggins, the owner of this ‘66 and what you’d have if you ever tried to buy it from him

Perfectly

Grant Cooke’s patina Bay is his first crack of the air-cooled whip and what a way to get started

Belgian Fun

Bought via the internet from San Antonio, Texas, this Belgian ‘66 Deluxe has come a long way to be here

Readers' Rides

Your pride and joy is our delight to share, so here they are

Just Keep Holding On

Despite having a fully restored Westy on the fl eet, Richard Sennett couldn’t resist the charms of this Holdsworth, but then who can blame him?

Team Work

It’s not just a day job for us at C&B, the staff eat sleep and breath VWs, so here’s a little peep at what we’ve been getting up to lately

Man Made

When Darren Shorter of Vantastic wanted a demo Bus to show off his interiors skills he hit the nail on the head with this RHD '71

Old Glory

With it's cool stars and stripes livery and total lack of ground clearance, Harry Nugent's Bay just gets better with age.

Going Against The Grain

Stock is the new slammed if this former Deluxe, turned Westy Camper is anything to go by

Déjà Vu

If Paul Irving has an overwhelming sense of familiarity with this Westy it’s for good reason - he’s bought and sold it twice. Here’s why he keeps coming back for more

Smoke & Mırrors

We thought the title was pretty clever, but smoke and windows is probably more apt. Everything is not quite as it seems…

Into The Blue

When his previous Bus turned out to be a bit of a pup, Kevin Porter decided to throw himself into the deep end and restore this Brilliant Blue Deluxe himself

Trigger's Broom

It may not have received 17 heads and 14 handles, but this 13-window has been given the full Monty, and then some.

Nein Nein Nein

When Pat Legg went looking for a really good, unmolested Bus, she immediately said yes, yes, yes to this ex-volunteer fire van.

Colorado Part 2

Paddling in snow melt, skinny dipping in hot springs and climbing mountains in old Buses. What a trip…

M Is For M-Code

…or for ‘Mehr- und minder-ausstattung’, if you want to be Teutonically accurate about it. This is a look at the mysteries of M-codes, the bewildering number of options that could be added to, or deleted from, Type 2s.

Bay Sliding Door Repaır

Bay Windows love rusting, few places more so than the bottom of the sliding door. Here’s how to fix yours when the time comes