VW camper bus restoration information

This is a typical question that gets posed on forums:

“A friend & I are planning, in the next 3 or so years, to buy and restore an old VW bus. We are thinking a camper, but not neccessarily a Westy. Does anyone here know anything about restoring VW Buses? Or know of a helpful DIY-type site? We know very little about cars in general, so any help is enormously appreciated.”

There’s loads of information out there. First of course there are books and workshop manuals, websites which specialise in different aspects of VW campers, for example, try find vw camper parts for parts 

There’s lots of material on restoring a VW bus - this is a very helpful slideshow on restoring a VW camper (bay window) interior.

And this slide show demonstrates how to restore the bodywork of a VW camper


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6 comments


  1. JC Whitney has parts for most types of cars. Maybe they have manuals, too.

    http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/StoreCatalogDisplay/c-10101/s-10101
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    on January 28th, 2009 at 10:08 am
  2. Find and read how to keep your VW alive by John Muir.
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    on January 28th, 2009 at 10:13 am
  3. Join groups such as Wet Westies on Yahoo. There you can learn what you need to do and ask the questions you'll need to know prior to your purchase.

    Good Luck.

    http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/wetwesties
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    http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/wetwesties

    on January 28th, 2009 at 10:48 am
  4. busdepot.com

    Good luck - you'll have a lot of fun!
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    I've bought parts for my bus there.

    on January 28th, 2009 at 11:15 am
  5. Best place for bus parts is http://www.thesamba.com - just look around and you will see….
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    on January 28th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
  6. ALL of your questions, and some you didn't even know you had, can and will be answered at http://www.thesamba.com
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    on January 28th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

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