Custom Campmobile

This 1973 Campmobile combines blends stock and subtle custom styling touches to make one very distinctive looking camper.

- David Eccles

Originally built in April 1973 as a Pastel White automatic gearbox model with a Type 4 engine, it left the Hannover plant ready to be converted into a Westfalia pop-top (P31) with the D39 US spec option package, which included chrome hubcaps, heated rear window, laminated windscreen, brake servo and padded dash along; vent cab windows were also specified. The M plate also carries the destination code UK, used for US export models bound for dealership showrooms initially as a promotional model. By the time it was imported by FBI VW in 2007 it had received a quickie respray in white and a refurbished 2 litre Type 4 engine as well as being converted from the auto box to manual; documents showed the previous owner had cared for it and it had lived in Arizona, New York and South Carolina at various times in its life.