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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VW Bus: Forty Years of Splitties,Bays & Wedges List Price: $24.95 Sale Price: $14.67 |
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A methodical, yet lively record of VW's Transporter over its first 40-years, which presents the vehicle in the same lavish formats of artistry and photography selected by Volkswagen over the decades. Model history and range development outlined (including Campers), specifications (including USA terminology), and performance discussed with a particular emphasis on marketing and advertising strategies. |
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VW Bus: Road to Freedom List Price: $49.95 Sale Price: $31.16 |
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The VW Bus has been a symbol of freedom and of a certain outlook on life for many generations. Serial production began in 1950. This earBOOK takes a look at the history of this seriously cult little bus by combining photographs, music and quotes from song lyrics of the time... |
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VW Bus Custom Handbook (Motorbooks Workshop) List Price: $21.95 Sale Price: $17.12 |
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Looking for new and exciting ways to customize your VW? Get fantastic coverage of the VW Bus from the first Type 2 Transporter of 1949, to the air-cooled models of 1982, in this detailed and informative work on Volkswagen rebuilding and modifying... |
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Traveling With the VW Bus and Camper List Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $16.23 |
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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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Original Vw Bus (Original Series) List Price: $35.95 Sale Price: $110.00 |
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Volkswagen Transporter Bus Instruction Manual 1960-64 (Volkswagen Transporter 1960-64 Instruction Manual VW Bus) |
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VW Bus or type 2 owners manual that went in the glove box |
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Cooking It up In My VW Bus Sale Price: $37.26 |
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When you sleep, eat, cook, hangout, camp, and drive in a small vehicle, you need to have recipes that are easy to make while camping or prepared before the trip. I love to cook and was always asking VW camping people what they were cooking and eating in their bus... |
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VW Bus: The First 50 Years 1949-1999 List Price: $29.95 |
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The Road Taken: A Memoir - One VW Bus, One Widow, Nine Kids List Price: $16.50 Sale Price: $10.35 |
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It started with a simple bet shortly after I became a widow left with nine children to raise. Leafing through a National Geographic, losing myself in the world of possibilities, I'd often comment, "Maybe someday we'll visit there... |
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Typenkompass VW Bus/Transporter. 1949 - 1979, Band 1. |










