Thrift Store Find- $5.00 Car Top Carrier

This will be perfect for the VW Bus....

$5.00, Not bad....

Thrift Store find- $5.00 Work Table

Awesome table....

It has VW parts all over it right now.....

What I did for my VW Bus today-New Headlights!

New headlights for the Bus!.

Looks better with eyes..

It's starting to look pretty decent over all.

Always a work in progress.

The lights and headlights really wake it up..

Manly Mechanic's Gloves. MPACT2

These gloves are great.

I use them for working on the bus and other manly stuff like cleaning out

the garage.

Very Nice...

What I did for my VW Bus today- front cargo floor mat

I need to take care of the front floor area of my VW Bus.

It was pretty bare. To help with noise and vibration, I wanted to use carpet.

I have a heavy duty mat that will provide more protection, I wanted to use that as well.

I used both.

Hopefully the mat and carpet combined will reduce noise, vibration and help to

reduce drafts coming through the floor.

The floor seals around the gas / brake pedals need to be replaced.

This should help to keep everything dry and cozy...
I thought about using a floor protector instead of the mat.
That would've worked just fine.
I think it would have been to hard to cut...

CheapGeek Tip- SUV cargo area protection.

Floor Protector makes an awesome SUV cargo floor area protector.
Price is right, too..

VW Bus- Bamboo Floor

After doing the interior of 1977 VW Bus with carpet, I found something better.
I was at the Thrift Store and I found a box of Bamboo Flooring.
Six foot long, hand scraped Bamboo flooring.
This stuff is usually about $7.00 a square foot.
$3.98 is what I paid for it. It was marked down from $9.98.
I had hardwood flooring in my Hi Top VW Bus. I like it.
Bamboo Flooring is a pretty good alternative for Hardwood Flooring.
Especially for $3.98...

VW Bus Floor Installation- with more information..

Quick video of my VW Bus floor installation, has some information that might be useful..

VW bus volt and amp gauges installed, or what I did on Saturday.

Dash Gauges and radio installed in the dash.

What I did for My VW Bus, painted the rear cargo area, found carpet.

So I have my interior color scheme sorta figured out.
The carpet was a bonus. FREE is good!

What I did today..for my VW Bus, tachometer in!

Here's the Tachometer and how it looks in the guage cluster. I think it looks pretty good.

Tachometer for my VW Bus

Here's my Tachometer for my 1977 VW Bus.
I got it at the dump in North Carolina.
Evidently you can drop your old boat or just about anything.
Eventually it gets smashed up and disposed of.
When me and my Dad were at the dump, we decided to
take the entire gauge cluster. I figure the boat was from the late seventies.
The tachometer had a look that will hopefully blend into the bus.
Free, is a good price for the Tachometer, if it works.....

Canine Copilot wanted

Thought this was a cute picture.
I don't use the word cute very often.

Tucker, likes aircooled VW's.
As do I.

What I did on Sunday

I decided to paint my bus Hunter Green, and almond with an Orange Stripe around the middle.
The Orange stripe wasn't what I was going for. I'm thinking I might re paint it Red again.
The Samba.com has pictures from my last paint adventure. The Samba.com is about the best VW forum around.

What I did on Saturday...

What I did on Saturday...

Spring is nearly Here....

I'm really starting to get excited..  Spring is almost Sprung!
I haven't posted anything to this blog for about 2 weeks.
I had planned to take a day or two during the nice weather we were supposed to have. I had some stuff to  do to the bus.
Instead, I shot a Coke Bottle cap in my eye and scratched my eyeball. The old school metal kind.
Which sucks.. nothing good about that.
So I didn't get the chance. I didn't really do much of anything actually.
But after the daylight saving time spring forward thing, I now have an extra hour of daylight.
So I can tend to my crops. Garden time..
Check it-(my Seedling Soldiers)
I used a little green house to jump start my garden... Garden should be good.
This upcoming weekend, I think I might put my dash back in.
Or at least try to update some of the 500 pictures I've taken so far.
So I can back-date this blog with the things that have been done so far..
Meanwhile, here's one piece of Electro-wizardry, I will install on my bus to help me see whats behind me.
Here you go.
I made the pictures large enough to read the box. 
Click if you want to get a better look.

Waterproof, night vision, wide angle of view, rear view, flush mount camera.
Soon to be mounted on a 1976 VW Bus. Nice.
I believe it was 27 dollars plus shipping at Buy.com. The link has the price and the specs.

Or some of them at least.
I should get one for my other bus. I'll post pictures when I mount it..yep.

Come On! Spring.

I've been thinking about the Hitop.
It's still winter and I'm itching to do stuff.
It's still winter. 
It's not the coldest out there, but it's cold enough for me.
I've been trying to grab low cost, or Cheap stuff for the Bus.
One of the things I ran across is this- A battery powered, LED Automatic Closet light.
The dimensions are roughly 2 1/4 long by 1 1/4 wide in inches, because I'm in America.
It has a little magnetic strip that mounts beside the light. 
When the light is away from the magnet, it lights with the fury of 1 LED!
Not much, but enough. As lighting and energy consumption was a concern for camping,
I don't want to run down my batteries while camping. This light will be usable. I bought 3 so far.
I'm thinking I need about ten. \
The bus has cabinets and will have drawers and other cabinets, so why not illuminate them.
Here's the one Picture, I took before my camera (Canon Powershot A710 IS) went dead, got to charge my batteries.

I got them from Dollar Tree, here in Tidewater Virginia.
One Dollar.....
Very Nice.
 I'll post some pictures later. 
Maybe a cool night shot....maybe not. 
It's still winter.

Cool Bus Stuff

After taking pictures of  the "Micro Bus" my girlfriend made a snazzy key chain for me.

I think it's the same clay that was used for the Micro bus. 

Whatever it is I like it..

Here's a picture..

        OOO NOOOES!

Kind of reminds me of MR. Bill..
Either way I like them... the key chains, not Mr. Bill.
He can go to hell...
Check out this weird page, it has Mr. Bill running around- looks kind of creepy..
Mr.Bill Creepy walk

VW Bus, actually a VW Microbus that I got for Christmas

I've said before, I like VW Bus stuff.
I really enjoy Baywindow bus stuff, mainly because the demand is less.
Demand is less,therefore less Baywindow Bus stuff out there.
So when I see stuff, I try to pick it up.
My Girlfriend found this really cool MicroBus and got it for me for Christmas.
I think it's neat, it's a mini diorama complete with it's own little highway.
There's more in my Flickr.. Here's a couple to check out.

The VW Microbus is One inch.

Very Cool...

Chili Pepper Lights for my HiTop VW Bus...

Picked these up at a Junk Shop.

I'm going to use these for awning lights.

They were pretty expensive, $1.98.

They came in a bag with 4 strings of chili pepper lights.

Here's a picture, they are also in the Flickr photo stream too.

I think they are going to be very cool. I posted pretty much the same thing at CheapGeek.net

part of the Junk in the Trunk series.

The more things I can buy at a Junk Shop the better,

Camping stuff especially. Save a buck, to spend it elsewhere. Spend it on the bus...yep...                          

VW Bus stuff for Valentines Day!

Check it. My Girlfriend got these Valentine's presents for me.
Very Cool indeed.

Here's a couple more pictures.

Very Cool, VW Bus Candy.
It's tin foil wrapped chocolate and it's pretty tasty.

I enjoy VW Bus related stuff, and for Valentines Day- this was perfect.

I haven't seen stuff like VW Bus Chocolates before. 

The card and the VW Bus bag is nifty too. Very nice.

Very Good. OOPS, I forgot a picture of the bag.

Cool? Yes, yes it is.. 

Snow, and a Bus Picture..

It snowed... which was exciting. Now it just kind of Sucks.
Anyway here's a picture of my Bus that I can't work on right now.

So much stuff to complete.

This is going to be our Camper.

Needs to be spring..Spring is good.

Work to be done...

Here's a picture of my car alarm for the bus.

He will claw your eyes out.. Just kidding..

He's got some snow on his nose..