Down On The Street: Busses At The Beach

 Or Splitties See the Sand. A Kombi, two panels and a Samba at Ponto, Memorial Day Weekend:

 vintage third brake light

 nice matching cooler

Down On The Street - Air-Cooled German Two-Fer

This was sitting in the parking lot of the Encinitas Community Center on Saturday afternoon.

It's a 23-window deluxe Samba, but way overdone for my tastes.

Metallic paint just ain't right in this application. It was nicely applied though. And the owner did add some über-cool "safari" windows.

Yep, this Bus is definitely Leucadia material. Surprised that I haven't seen it out and about until now.

The seats and door panels need a good coat of fire.

Blech, too much contrived junk in there...

 ...but the luggage rack is cool

 Up next is a sweet Porsche 914 that I parked next to this afternoon.

 It's definitely a sharp ride, both inside...

 ...and out:

Not considering the much-higher value of the Bus, I'd rather have the Porsche in my garage. Which German air-cooled VW (or glorified VW) would you prefer?

Bob Baker VW Show

Some hastily-shot iPhone pix from an air-cooled VW show at a local dealer last weekend.

 

glorious Ghia

 pair o' things

 pre-'58 pressed bumper 23-window Samba

 baja Ghia

 hacked splitty

 brick paneling - WTF??

 1970s paint job

ratty splitty...

 ...riding on Porsche "phone dials"

 patina

 clean Squareback

 beefy Beetle

 ovals

 912 motor (?)

 '68 Westfalia, showroom fresh

 Puma kit car

 Speedster and 550 kit cars

 another oval

 well-accessorized (over-accessorized?)  '51 split window

 cool spotlight/mirror combo

 down-on-the-street doka

Down On The Street

Yawn, another weekend ride, another semi-interesting air-cooled VW spotted on the streets of North County.

I'm really trying to filter my "car-dar" a bit and tune out the myriad of Beetles and Busses (especially the bay window variants), but there seem to be plenty of somewhat unique ones still on out and on the prowl. Like this straight single cab splitty:
Someone get a VW badge on that nose, STAT.
And not chrome, it should be painted the same primer red as the lower half of the body. This was spotted at Fletcher Cove Beach park. I'm sure the owner was lugging a longboard in the bed.
Nice pipe bumper too.
If it was mine, I'd have a mildly-built 1776 dual port/dual carb engine in back and some safari windows along with the aforementioned VW badge up front. But it's still cool as-is. Just keep changing the oil and adjusting the valves and it should be good-to-go for another 45+ years on the road.