Bus Restoration Books
Even though VW Bus' are old, that doesn't mean they are overly simple machines. An air cooled engine takes a certain amount of knowledge and expertise to work on, and that can only be gained by practice and access to good information. While you'll have to provide the practice, Busted VW can supply you with the information!
To get started on your restoration project, take a look at our books below
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Original VW Bus: The Restorer's Guide to all Bus, Panel Van and Pick-up Models 1950-1979 (Original Series) List Price: $49.95 Sale Price: $28.81 |
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A comprehensive guide to original factory specification and equipment of VW Split-screen and Bay-window transporters. 265 photographs of 25 vehicles from Germany, the UK and the USA illustrate not only the people carriers but the many variations panel van, pick-up truck, double-cab pick-up and highroof panel van. |
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VW Bus and Pick-Up: Special Models: SO (Sonderausfhrungen) and Special Body Variants for the VW Transporter 1950-2010 List Price: $34.95 Sale Price: $23.24 |
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Since its introduction in 1950 the Volkswagen Transporter has become legendary for its versality and adaptability to many commercial uses. Known originally as Sonderausfhrungen, abbreviated to SO, these Special Models were usually converted by specialists, companies and coachbuilders approved by VW... |
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Traveling With the VW Bus and Camper List Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $16.04 |
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Introduced in the 1950s, the VW bus was designed to be multifunctional. Since then, it has come to symbolize fun, freedom, and adventure. VW bus owners fully incorporate their vehicles into their lives: Some treat them as an extension of their home, while others undertake epic journeys in them, across desert and sea, and through Europe, Asia, and Africa... |
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VW Camper - The Inside Story: A Guide to VW Camping Conversions and Interiors 1951-2005 List Price: $34.95 Sale Price: $22.97 |
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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... |
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VW Bus: The First 50 Years 1949-1999 List Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $270.15 |
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Developed from an idea crudely sketched in a notebook, the VW van has evolved into an icon, unrivaled by any other similar vehicle. Indeed, in this day and age of mini-vans and MPVs, it's easy to forget that Volkswagen came up with precisely the same concept back in 1949... |
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Highway Sailor: A Rollicking American Journey List Price: $9.99 |
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When the woman Jake Massry lives with leaves him for another man because he can't succeed as a writer, and his Old World father, on his deathbed, orders him to get a "real" job, Jake, to get his head straight, hits the highways of America in his worn-out VW bus Old Bones in search of himself and his country... |
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Vw Transporter/Bus, 1949-1967 (Schiffer Automotive Series) List Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $14.20 |
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Each 96 page, hard cover book in the series is 10 1/2" x 7 5/8" and contains color and black and white photos, drawings, charts, and catalog facsimiles. Each classic model is presented in its historic and developmental aspects. |
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VW Bus (Benziner ab Okt. 82, Diesel ab Febr. 81) Band 111 Sale Price: $47.12 |
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VW Bus / Transporter seit 1947 |
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So wird's gemacht, Bd.38, VW Bus, VW Transporter Sale Price: $24.63 |










