VW Camper - The Inside Story

Author: David Eccles
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785007629
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1016

Book Description
This revised and expanded third edition updates the story across six generations of the VW Bus and includes additional information and pictures, including more conversions, as well new information about the very early years and the latest models. Using archive and period brochure images, and photographs of original-condition models still surviving to illustrate the detailed text, it documents the various specifications, layouts, fitments and optional equipment of over forty different conversion companies, from well-known names like Devon and Westfalia, to lesser-known or unusual models such as Slumberwagen and Arcomobil. Since publication of the first edition in 2005, followed by a revised, expanded edition in 2012, VW Camper - The Inside Story has been acclaimed by enthusiasts and lovers of the VW Camper, and has become a definitive guide to the many different camping conversions built on the VW Transporter and Microbus.

The VW Camper Van

Author: Mike Harding
Publisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1781311366
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
It was invented immediately after the war, in the factory a far-sighted English military man had set up to turn the German economy from making machines of warfare to more pacific products. By the seventies that dream had been amply fulfilled, as the VW Campervan became the conveyance of choice for West Coast hippies, Australian surf bums and Europeans taking the overland route to find enlightenment and good karma in India. It had also become – indeed, still is – the first choice for any couple, or family, seeking a cheap camping holiday with wheels attached. So never mind the oddly off-centre driving wheel, the vagaries of the aircooled rear engine – the VW Campervan had become more than a vehicle – it had truly become a way of life. Mike Harding’s first ride in a Volkswagen Camper Van was back in 1961, when it was the carrying around the gear and bandmembers of his rock band the Manchester Rainmakers. Finally, in 2009, he could wait no longer, and bought his own, a 2001 Type 2 bay window Brazilian import Danbury conversion in hot orange and off white. Add in the endless curiosity of the author of eight monographs on church architecture, and the hilarious sense of humour of one of Britain’s best stand-up comics, and you have a wonderful social history of the postwar years through the prism of a single transport icon.

Patina Volkswagens

Author: Mark Walker
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 178711824X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 475

Book Description
Patina Volkswagens is the first book to look at how and why Volkswagens with original paint and patina have become so popular. The book explores the many different facets of this trending hobby, from the cars themselves, to the owners and the global scene surrounding them.

The Van Conversion Bible

Author: Charlie Low & Dale Comley
Publisher: Charlie Low & Dale Comley
ISBN: 1800493983
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Want to wake up to a breathtaking new view every morning? Have you been dreaming about owning a vehicle to fuel your adventures? Building a campervan gives you total freedom to create your very own rolling home. Escape the daily grind, hit the open road and re-write the way you live. The Van Conversion Bible is the ultimate guide to planning, designing and converting a campervan. It’s more than just the story of how we built our own van Ringo, it will help you build a van bespoke to your needs. It provides definitive answers to your questions (even the ones you haven’t thought of yet!) to ensure you save time and avoid expensive mistakes. From detailed gas, water and electrical system diagrams to a step-by-step build guide, you’ll find everything you need to start your journey inside. Whatever your skills and budget, you can learn how to build your dream campervan. Your very own home on wheels awaits…

The Long and Whining Road

Author: Simeon Courtie
Publisher: Simeon Courtie
ISBN: 9780957198005
Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description

Classic Camper Vans - The Inside Story

Author: Martin Watts
Publisher: Crowood Press UK
ISBN: 9781861269478
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book explores the extraordinary variety of the classic British camper van. Looking in detail at the classic vehicles of the 1950's, 60's and 70's, when motor camping holidays were at their most popular, it features vans ranging from relatively simple fitted-out panel vans right up to some remarkably sophisticated, fully coach-built campers. Every major converter and conversion is described in details with numerous color and black & white photographs.

VW Camper - The Inside Story

Author: David Eccles
Publisher: Crowood Press UK
ISBN: 9781847974174
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This critically acclaimed, best-selling book documents and celebrates the many diferent camping conversions built on the Volkswagen Transporter and Microbus base across five generations. In this expanded and fully updated second edition, over 500 color photographs, coupled with period and archive pictures and brochure materials, illustrate the detailed text, showing and describing the various specifications, layouts, fitments and optional equipment on over forty different conversion companies' models, including: Adventurwagen; Amescador; Arcomobil; Australian Campers; Auto-Sleeper; Bilbo's Campers; Campmobile; Canadiana; Canterbury Pitt; Caraversions Hitop; Danbury Conversions; Dehler Profi; Devon Conversions; Dormobile; Eurec Campers; EZ Campers; Gardena Gypsy; Holdsworth; Joch Camping; Kamper Kits; Karmann Coachbuilts; Moortown Motors; Oxley Coachcraft; Poba Campers; Reimo Conversions; Riviera/ASI Campers; Safare Custom Campers; Service Mota-Caravan; Slumberwagen; South African Campers; Sport Kocijan; Sportsmobile; Sundial Campers; Syro Kit Campers; T3 (T25) UK Campers; Tischer Demountables; Teca Conversions; Viking; Westfalia Campers and VW California.

VW Camper - The Inside Story

Author: David Eccles
Publisher: Crowood Press UK
ISBN: 9781861267634
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book documents and celebrates the many different camping conversions built on the Volkswagen Transporter and Microbus base across five decades. Until the advent of the new T5 generation in 2004, Volkswagen never made a factory-fitted camper, preferring to approve conversions carried out by firms such as Westfalia, Devon, Dormobile, Sundial and Danbury. However, many other different companies offered conversions on the VW base and the models produced by over forty different converters are described and pictured here.

Junk Boy

Author: Tony Abbott
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006249127X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
Bestselling author Tony Abbott’s YA novel-in-verse is an unflinching and heartbreaking look at a boy’s junk-filled life, and the ways he finds redemption and hope, perfect for fans of The Crossover and Long Way Down. Junk. That’s what the kids at school call Bobby Lang, mostly because his rundown house looks like a junkyard, but also because they want to put him down. Trying desperately to live under the radar at school—and at the home he shares with his angry, neglectful father—Bobby develops a sort of proud loneliness. The only buffer between him and the uncaring world is his love of the long, wooded trail between school and home. Life grinds along quietly and hopelessly for Bobby until he meets Rachel. Rachel is an artist who sees him in a way no one ever has. Maybe it’s because she has her own kind of junk, and a parent who hates what Rachel is: gay. Together the two embark on journeys to clean up the messes that fill their lives, searching against all odds for hope and redemption. Narrated in Bobby’s unique voice in arresting free verse, this novel will captivate readers right from its opening lines, urging them on page after page, all the way to its explosive conclusion.

Crash Burn Love

Author: Bill Lowenburg
Publisher: Back Street Books
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Demolition derbies began in the late 1950s and today an estimated one million fans attend the 1,500 to 2,500 or more demolition derbies held around the United States each year. This book details both the public and private side of a wildly popular yet little understood American sport.