I can’t believe, the bus comes originally from my old hometown in Germany. The sticker on the bus , Gruß aus der Rhön is an indication that the bus is originally from Germany. The Rhön Mountains are a group of low mountains (or Mittelgebirge) in central Germany, located around the border area where the states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia come together. A major city in the area is Fulda, where 1000 of American Soldiers were stationed until the early 90’s. Most likely one of those fellows brought the Bus here to America. Also, the other sticker with the arrow pointing upwards says”Hallo Partner, Danke Schön.” This sticker was around the years from 1971-1974. It was a kind of awareness logo from the German Government to drive safely and cautious.Anyhow, keep up the good show. Love it. Hans

Thx for saving another bus! Here in Germany, you would have to pay tenthousands of dollars for a bus like this, even in this condition! Greetings from Wolfsburg (VW-Hometown) and again: Many thanks for your great work!

A $500 Bus!! Heck yeah! Bummer about the windows. It rolled easily!! Have fun at the show!!

Sure it is needy, but is much better than that '68 white Beetle you dragged home recently. That one had popouts and not much more to offer... Bet that bus had an interesting history... My buddy has a '68 Velvet Green double-cab. Lots of fun...

Just love your running commentary, make me feel like I am there holding the camera for you. Amazed at how you and your friends have a nose for the VW relics. Do appreciate your efforts to salvage these wonders of automative history and start their process for getting them back on the road. Keep it up and good luck.

You have a Westy someone gutted and converted to a station wagon. Check out the wood panel headliner and the power outlet on driver's side. You should have an unpainted Westfalia data plate riveted to the partition behind the seat (driver's seat IIRC). Solid roof makes it a "Caravette" (as opposed to pop top "Continental"). Back when I collected, my specialty was 68-71 T2. I do miss them.

Easiest going guy on KZfaq, absolute pleasure watching your videos

Great Condition reminds of 70's recycling ♻️ VW's my 69 Red bug loved them all we Acid dipping mig and tig them. It's a really great color definitely a rare color did have friend who had a bug that same color it was stolen 😢but I never seen a bus with sweet color!!!; )

Always hated working on cars in the rain. A good old Hefty bag raincoat works in a pinch.

Your backyard shack is cool! If you park the buses on at least three sides, it will be somewhat winter worthy. Of course, if you would just attend those VW Anonymous meetings, Jen maybe will let you back in the house! Dubwerks adds the necessary intellectual validity to your great camera work and clever commentary! Thanks for making the videos and sharing the adventures!

A good restoration project there, not too bad. We had a ‘67 VW split screen camper in the UK in the 70’s, same colour !, it also become quite rusty on sills. The camper lives on in New Zealand, still on the road after we exported it there.

I thought the last rescue was your last last rescue. I say keep them coming!

You are totally killing it lately with the VW rescues! 💪🚐🛟

Even in that condition $500 is a screaming deal...good find

These rescue vids remind me of The good, The bad and the ugly. The `ol bus is solid and rolls. Good way to start.

Cool bus , I have a 68/69 Panel van as mentioned in previous comments the early beams have different mounting, I’d say it was a Kombi originally as I believe velvety Green is a commercial colour and the bench seat and walk thru pads are on kombis not just deluxe models then I’d say it went to Wesfalia for a few extra bits like headliner and socket Great find keep it up

Thats a Dubwerks special! Nice pick Jason! Early Bays are the best

That door buffed out nice! Hope to see you at Terryville.

Not to shabby for a scruffy looking soggy hippy! I jest because I look worse presently! Too bad those kids destroyed all the glass, and whatever else. It's still worth saving. Nice work Jason!

👍👌👏 Congratulations, well done! A really great purchase for sure (to me even more because it's green). I definitely didn't know that any VW aircooled bus this age could be bought for 500 bucks. Totally unthinkable in Europe, especially Germany. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.

Now this is a COOL bus!

Greetings from Sydney Australia. Loving your channel so I subscribed for more.

Cool! Love to see all updates on these! Thanks.

Awesome save ! I would never pass that one up either ! 👍

Thank goodness you're talking again. There's a reason silent movies went away... Your banter makes it the best

Lovin' how you're always keeping it real. 😊

No key? Forget it! Na, I would have bought it too for $500. Just happy that you are talking to us again.

Excellent video Jason :) also Dub Works :) and wild on $500.00 VW bus mobile too !

Hey mate from Australia and watch your vids you are a legend saving all these old vw . !!

Hey Jason, an Arizona guy looking at the "slight amount of rust" on that bay.😉I'm not cringing but rather, giving that poor thing last rites. Jeez, I was trying to see if there was even $500 dollars of potential parts off that bad boy.. Hum.. How's scrap metal prices these days? 😂 I hate seeing buses with fatal cancer. :(

Bro your a trip love your sence of humor that looks salvageable i would gave him 300 bucks missing the glass is were the money is gezz well its saved it can be someones project put windows in it i know you got parts then clean it up put some things together and flip it

Dude what do you do with all these VWs? You must have 50 of them by now.

I love going on your vw rescues with you and not getting wet or cold, great video....great buy., Dubwerks has become quite the authority on vw trivia

I always look forward to your videos, keep up the good work.

Nice early low light Bay window. Pushbutton door handles. Extra long chrome rear view mirror. The coat hooks are for the seat belts to hang on when not used. The 68-69 front beam had the same mount bolt configuration as the split. They probably put a 1970 beam on it. See you Sunday

Love that Oval man... want to see the engine smoke it up!! lol let's start that baby!

good find always look forward to your videos easiest going guy on you tube even when is bouncing down with rain cool bus

Just found your channel, always been a huge fan of the VW bus but never yet had the courage to buy one and beg for forgiveness from the wife 🤣 your videos make it very tempting! Looking forward to working my way through the back catalogue!

Yes, that is velvet green. 68 buses used some carryover colors from the split bus era. Titian Red and Lotus White were also used. Interesting bus, tourist delivery at the factory. So a tin top Westy interior that someone ditched for a junkyard interior at some point? I have had those tall over riders on a bay bus before, I figured they were a dealer item or JC Whitney aftermarket. I wonder if that hitch is a factory/dealer item? There are threaded holes for install, I have a couple of those hitches in my stuff. Those rear jail bars could have been installed at the factory, Any sign of them also having been installed in the rear side windows? That front beam has the later bolt pattern. 68-69 were the same, changed in 70 and stayed that way through 79. Yours is likely a 70, unless someone went through the hassle of installing drum brakes and spindles on a later model disc brake beam.

A great midweek video! The parking lot is getting really full by now you may have to start liquidating soon lol. Hope to see more on the oval this weekend.

Hats off too Dub...great both of you......

yeah but the lighter still works

Hey Jason, you’re the VW whisperer! If you use the jack on the front of the trailer and jack up the trailer and truck at the same time it would be easier to load the bus. But you did fine in the rain. Thanks much for sharing!

Heavy on the body damage from what looks to be from moving the bus and stuff around it in it's past. However, it rolls! What this bus must have seen just after it was picked up at the factory. Cool!

In the rain!Dedication to saving VW's at its best 😊👍

Nice one bro, all things considered, i´d say that was a score!! Take you´re time with that locked up bug!! Cheers

Pretty cool having info on the bus! You have to love the internet!

There's more than $500 in parts there. Like to see Musti and you together. Enjoy

No gas divider panel on 68 buses. Those 68s are a different breed!

No.1. Tell her it's blue (again). No.2. Purchase a rain coat. No.3 Longer ramps required. No.4. Well done to you, again.

Give it to Mustie! I think he'd appreciate another one

Great video guys

Another great vídeo

Your ramps are to short😂 but you already knew. Just playing😊

👍👌👏 😁😁😁 At 3.55 min: While generating terrible squeaking noise, we are told emphatically: "Yes, I lube this regularly!" 😁😁😁 Please kindly allow me to suggest something: Maybe you better grease it, Sir! Oil doesn't stay on, even less does for instance something like that WD40 cra... uhm... penetrating oil. If parked I always put a really big plastic flower pot over the hitch mechanism, the plug and the crank handle. So no rust can rise because no water cant go in. Best regards, luck and health in particular.

A bit of buffing, new glass, another engine and that bus will be good to go 😁

nice job.

Love these bus rescue vids!!! Nice save brother!

Hi Nice to follow you thanks from Sweden !

For the trailer stand I have the same one I drilled a hole in the top side of the tube and threaded a zerk fitting in and pump some grease In there it’s amazing how good it works

The buyers seem to have gone on a tour of Germany with their newly bought van. The middle back sticker says „Gruß aus der Rhön“, „Greetings from the Rhön area“, which is way off Wolfsburg. It’s a tourist sticker. So they might have toured before shipping the bus.

I’d love a video of all the dubs u still have 🙏 n what’s going on with them, and what happened to some of the rescues that have gone off to new homes 👍🏼🍻

Nice find J

Vw king strikes again!! 👍

Jason, I must say I was Green with Envy, Wired and Remotely Board when watching you load the VW bus. Probably cause you were All Wet behind the ears and really Rusty at Loading Up. Then I realized it was because you were All Washed Up. And just like you, the VW is Special and Buffed. Okay, alright, so I am highly medicated since my back went out.....=Puns R Us. Best wishes. John here, from the back-roads of Northeastern Tennessee😅🤣😂.

It was picked up in Germany..so the color may have been an option that bought in USA was not....🤨

$500 that's not bad! at least it's not rotted halfway in the ground.

Really like that bus ! Going to make someone very happy in the future ??

If Dubwerks actually cleaned all that debris in that pad off it would work a lot better 😂

Belo resgate amigo. Nessa época aqui no brasil os modelos das kombi eram diferente . Esse modelo so foi fabricado aqui no brasil na metade da decada de 1990

Velvet Green? Really looks like diamond blue to me…not to be confused with Diamond Dave from the band “Van Halen”.

At 13:30.... the lettering on the front of the radio reads "All Transistor". Wow - that radio is definitely old! At 22:25, Dubwerks mentioned that the engine in this Westie is "unparisited". I saw that when Jay pull up the info on this bus on the website. Dunno - I'd think that it might mean that there's no smog air pump on it (U.S. air pollution regs at that time), or that there's no accessories (ex., A/C compressor on it) installed on the engine. Strange term! At 23:50, Dubwerks pointed out the German stickers on the back, and that indicated that the Westie spent some significant time over there after it was picked up at the factory. I'd bet that that the original owner may have been in the U.S. military, or that they arranged to buy the bus in Germany to take a long trip before they returned to the U.S., and had the bus shipped back.

I am as puzzled as you Jason, why take the dash apart? Anyway it is done now so that as they say is that! I like your interesting facts and I love it when Robbie comes with a new angle too. Great stuff Jason you could probably sell with a profit if you wanted to. I think you might want to make the front end a bit safer first though. Thanks Jason keep working on the oval. 👍👍

That is a cool green👍

KILLER SCORE RAD DUDE!!!!

One more saved Vw. Thanks from Sc

I knew it wasn't your last rescue!

That for the website on identifying the bus . I looked my up 😁

This is actually one of the better ones the pinecone Beatle was a roller with a air induction you should do a quick video on the fast bug some of these guys never seen or just put up the clip with Josh the look on his face was priceless...lol

A caddyshack quote!!

Using boards on the ramps can be pretty sketchy.. I know firsthand . A better way would be to bring some portable automotive ramps for the truck to back on to and it will help give you a smoother, less steep approach angle when you pull some thing onto it.

I actually found a 92 RM 250 basket case . I was pleasantly surprised of how much of it was there . I got it running and driving for not much the aftermarket stuff was the biggest pain but she's a ripper now

Dude!! Proceed to the route!!! What part didn't you understand? The instructions were pretty clear! 😂😂

God i hate working in the rain😖⚡

definitely worth rescuing but yea WHY.....like someone was over their head on that one. good for parts for a restoration on a really rusty one.

T2 busses start @ 3,000 pounds, iirc. Nice find. The price is right.

I think I might know where this bus came from on Long Island. I'm trying to remember where, but it seems familiar to me. Maybe near the train station in Hicksville? Was a green bus like this that sat there for a long long time and then one day it was gone. Might be the same bus.

SWEET!

Read the comments. European guys pay 4 to 5k for this. List it for 3.5k to help cover the shipping cost

If he paid me 500 bucks yea sure Id haul it out of there.

Nice find! Hopefully the oval engine loosens up!

Those thin over rider's are rare to find on an Early Bay. And theres no fuel tank panel on a 68. A 68 Bay is a 1yr only bus, lots of 1yr only parts, doors, door handles, wipers, dash clocks, chassis itself (front and rear chassis changed for 69 model year), no fuel tank cover, sun visors, rear view mirror, brake drums, front beam. Basically lots of splitty bits were carried over. And thats missing its interior, SO67 is a full camper interior, my bus is an early 68 SO67, theres a walk around of it on mine/my sons channel, should have that interior. Also that colour isnt uncommon on Early Bays, know of a few 68/69's that colour here in Europe.

Watch the movie Slap Shot..!! 😆 He looks like a Hanson Brother 😆

The front beam is a late 69, 70. Pattern changed. Good score!

You can see the holes drilled for the sink/ refrigerator behind the Passenger seat.

Straight,,,!,,great parts,,,good to hear talking this vid,,,color too!,😅free car wash😮,,,don't do it. Tnx,pat,,land o lakes,wi.

Mustie1 says "it doesn't look Terrible" alot maybe you got it from him lol 😅

She’s a beaut

Rough but easy money back in parts ,bumpers cool . Maybe restorable

That road is called Long Island Ave. My neck of the woods.