Vehicle Description
1977 VW bus KOMBI project. Dream Specialty ride! Bench seating.
Complete and running, starts right up! Sal title. As is classic.
front end damage nothing a body guy couldn't handle! It's been said
the Volkswagen Kombi van or bus started the minivan movement. To be
sure, the VW Kombi has had a long run of popularity worldwide -- a
popularity that's now seeing a resurgence. Recent results from
Barrett-Jackson Auctions have seen early-1960s 23-window VW Kombi
vans reaching six figures. A search of Autotrader's used-car
listing shows plenty of Volkswagen vans within reach of
enthusiasts, many for sale at well under the six-figure mark.
Introduced in 1950 to the local German market as a commercial van,
the VW van quickly moved into passenger-vehicle mode a year later,
when VW saw the need for multi-person transportation, along with
lots of cargo storage. In 1951, production of the passenger Kombi
reached over 11,000 vehicles. It wasn't until the early 1960s that
the Type 2 (VW's official designation for the commercial vehicle)
began gaining real attention in the United States. As it quickly
gained near-cult status, the Transporter garnered many nicknames
beyond 'Kombi.' Names such as 'microbus,' or just 'bus,' were
popular throughout the 60s, along with the San Francisco-inspired
Hippie van. That's all you had to say for everyone to know you were
talking about a VW. During those early years, the Volkswagen
Microbus morphed into various forms. From a cargo carrier with no
windows behind the driver's seat to a windowed passenger van with
three rows of seats, the possibilities seemed endless. There was
what became known as the 'Samba' or 'Deluxe Microbus,' which grew
to be more popularly named for the number of windows: '21-window'
or '23-window,' which included the skylight-type windows along the
edges of the roof. Many split-windshield VW vans also had
windshield glass that was hinged at the top and pivoted out at the
bottom. These 'safari'
