78 Bay Window Bus

This is a VW bay window bus transporter from 1978. It was sold as a deluxe champagne edition, including such luxuries as chrome bumpers, the funky paint scheme, a very brown interior, and a clock!

This bus has very minimal rust and the paint is worn, but completely original. Some might disagree, but I'm determined to retain this paint for as long as I own the vehicle. With a bit of polish I think it looks great.

Transporters were set up for people moving, not camping. If I wanted to sleep in the back I was going to need to turn the rear bench into a flat platform.

I designed a series of linkages to allow the rear bench to fold out flat as seen in this model.

Some other upgrades were in order. Including some fancy upgraded brakes to replace the worn out originals and fresh seat upholstery to replace the utterly destroyed old stuff.