VW T2 | Hippie Van | The biggest selling Volkswagen Transporter and its campervans

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Thecampervanchannel

Thecampervanchannel

3 жыл бұрын

The #vwt2 or #baywindow turned the Volkswagen #camper into a truly global phenomenon. This video celebrates the history of the #volkswagenT2 that was built in some form, somewhere in the world, for an incredibly 46 years.
There's more detail on the T2 and all other VW Transporters and their campers in the book of the channel - "VW Campers for Beginners". Check out print and e-book versions on AMAZON - bit.ly/vwcampersforbeginners
This video uses great archive photos and video courtesy of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, to recall some amazing and sometime surprising developments of the model whose giant curved windscreen led to it being known affectionately as the #bay window.
The Bay remains hugely popular for campervan conversion - but who remembers the all-electric T2 Volkswagen of 1972, whose underfloor battery weighed more than a Volkswagen beetle. Or, the experimental all-wheel drive Bays that were a technical success but judged a little ahead of their time and weren't put into production. Our video includes beautifully restored T2 Transporters filmed at V-dub events throughout the UK - and charts the developments of the Bay in Mexico and Brazil which continued long after the popular van ceased production in its native Germany.
Our thanks to RB Motorhomes of Darley, North Yorkshire, for the opportunity to film a rare water-cooled Bay, converted into a campervan by Danbury - giving the classic look of a vintage Bay, but with mod cons including power steering.
CAMPERVAN BOOKS FROM THE AUTHOR ON AMAZON:
* "VW CAMPERS FOR BEGINNERS - The Complete Guide to Owning Your First Volkswagen Campervan" - rb.gy/8lk6v
* "EUROPE BY CAMPERVAN - Turn Vanlife Dreams into Road Trip Reality" - shorturl.at/cflH8
CAMPERVAN BLOG: And there's yet more help, advice and campervan articles on my Vanlifevirgins blog:
www.vanlifevirgins.com

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@antoniopalmero4063
@antoniopalmero4063 5 ай бұрын
My bay van was 50 years old oct 2023 .still going strong 💪.
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 5 ай бұрын
Excellent! And well done.
@fmulder67
@fmulder67 4 ай бұрын
mine too!
@jeffpsaila4647
@jeffpsaila4647 2 жыл бұрын
As a T2 owner in the 80’s I enjoyed this video and found out quite a lot that was previously unbeknownst to me !
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 2 жыл бұрын
There are so many good stories behind the T2 aren't there!
@gailwood2235
@gailwood2235 3 жыл бұрын
Love these videos. Keep them coming. Thank you
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 3 жыл бұрын
Another on the t1 to follow soon....but then I need to get out filming again. Fingers crossed!
@gailwood2235
@gailwood2235 3 жыл бұрын
@@Thecampervanchannel 🤞🤞🤞🤞
@westyso.cal.8842
@westyso.cal.8842 2 ай бұрын
Just bought a 73’ Westy and having a great time. 🚌💨
@kavanghia6908
@kavanghia6908 Жыл бұрын
I had a 1970 van back in 1980 and loved it. I also had many bug's since then. My son and I found a 69 Ghia that we saved from the car crusher. We are working on it now hoping to get it running, and driving. We want to get it on the road and enjoy the ride 👍
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel Жыл бұрын
Good luck. Hope it all comes together smoothly
@bosmerfromcanada3878
@bosmerfromcanada3878 3 ай бұрын
German engineering, reliability and beauty disguised as plainness. What more can be said?
@wilfriedfuentes9070
@wilfriedfuentes9070 2 жыл бұрын
Good piece of information! I enyoy every second on this video. Thank you!!
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 2 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome. Glad you enjoyed!
@mcj7207
@mcj7207 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for a great video, about the amazing t2
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 3 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome! I'm looking for an expert owner whose had several of them... to film what they're really like to live with!
@TateReggie
@TateReggie 2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks for the knowledge.
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 2 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome.
@quentinthompson5809
@quentinthompson5809 8 ай бұрын
Very enjoyable video. Just one point; the Last Edition was originally planned as a run as you reported of 600 but in fact they changed this to a run of 1200. Anyway, great video - and I love the book too :-)
@koalabearduk7306
@koalabearduk7306 Жыл бұрын
Great video 🙏
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked!
@brazilianclassiccars
@brazilianclassiccars Жыл бұрын
VW did not made the Camper version in Brazil. However, we find good ones made like Camper vans that our company export worldwide.
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel Жыл бұрын
I expect there is great demand! Keep up the good work
@DanTheManIOM
@DanTheManIOM 3 жыл бұрын
Are you part of that Facebook group, VW Camper Vans I think it is called. I have stopped going on FB except for rare occasions...Love these videos, brilliantly done...
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 2 жыл бұрын
No! Just an independent fan!
@MarcusTDM
@MarcusTDM 2 жыл бұрын
Great video. One day I’ll get one! One day!
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel Жыл бұрын
Thanks... and good luck!
@IrishRooster86
@IrishRooster86 Жыл бұрын
You and I share the same dream. One day you will have yours and me mine. I’m hoping more sooner then later though. VW bus (split or bay) is my dream vehicle I plan on driving as my daily. I wish you all the luck in finding yours and I’ll keep waiting for mine to call to me. It will happen when you least expect it. Peace and love. VW for life!!
@MarcusTDM
@MarcusTDM Жыл бұрын
@@IrishRooster86 absolutely. It is a life long dream. I hope to have it before my kids have left home! Good luck in your quest also and hopefully when that day happens you’ll be making loads of videos on here about it to see. Incidentally if your interested I have a few videos on my channel of when i was lucky enough to hire one a few years ago that may interest you. Good luck.
@IrishRooster86
@IrishRooster86 Жыл бұрын
@@MarcusTDM Thank you very much, I’ll definitely check your videos out. ✌🏼🤙🏼
@philhumphrisvwadventures
@philhumphrisvwadventures 3 жыл бұрын
Really enjoy these video's and I hope you don't mind, I share them on my Twitter account VW Adventures.
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 3 жыл бұрын
Glad you like! I'm searching for some mega owners to be interviewed for future videos ...ie folks who have had loads of certain t-types and REALLY know what they are like to live with....genuine expertise based on experience! .So if any of your followers fit the bill, I'd love to hear from them.
@johnhawkins8353
@johnhawkins8353 2 жыл бұрын
Great video , but wasn’t a T1 a beetle , T2 a splitty/Bay and then it was a T25 which was then followed by a T4 ,T5 etc ?
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent. A chance for me to be ultra nerdy! I'm pretty sure the Beetle was the VW "type 1" and the Transporter (all models) was the VW "type 2". The Transporters "T" numbers (presumably short for Transporter) were not used until there were several generations and folks used T1, T2 etc to differentiate them. Unless anyone knows different !!!!
@s.13.ramirez
@s.13.ramirez 2 жыл бұрын
I have a question, around 4:20 ish, you say that the older t2, are from 1967, and that early bays have low lights mounted near the bumper, but I own a t2 westfalia with high mounted blinkers, bumper with the step, oval rear lights with the reverse light being a little square above, is it possible that the very very first ones had high mounted blinkers or is there something else I don't know? great video
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 2 жыл бұрын
Can you tell me what year your van was built?
@s.13.ramirez
@s.13.ramirez 2 жыл бұрын
@@Thecampervanchannel all the legal paperwork says that it's a 1964, but clearly that's wrong, so I don't have a specific year, at a Vw meeting, a guy told me that everything was early bay, the air intake, the logo size, rear lights, bumper, handles... but the front blinkers are late, so I have no idea, just the blinkers are late because the late bays have a smaller logo and different headlights but mine has the early ones so I think mine is a little Frankenstein
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 2 жыл бұрын
@@s.13.ramirez That's very strange - particularly being registered in 1964 - at least three years before the T2 was launched! I'm no expert - but guess the legals have been messed up at some point and maybe, just maybe, your early bay has had a new front end at some point? Very interesting though. Thanks for posting.
@s.13.ramirez
@s.13.ramirez 2 жыл бұрын
@@Thecampervanchannel just the blinkers are changed, but there's no mark or "holes" were the early ones were at some point, but yeah, I am so in love with the uniqueness that it has, and honestly I prefer how it looks that way, thanks for answering, really loved your video!
@wossisname4540
@wossisname4540 Жыл бұрын
The Type 2 featured here was originally known as the "Clipper". After a while (difficult to say - a couple of years) B.O.A.C. contacted VW and told them to desist from using that term because it was, and is, their call-sign. If necessary they would take the matter further. The term "Clipper" was dropped, and the American "Bay Window" seemed to take over (Boo!).
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel Жыл бұрын
Never heard that! Interesting! Thanks
@jukkahakkarainen6964
@jukkahakkarainen6964 2 жыл бұрын
👍
@stevenhoelderich9490
@stevenhoelderich9490 2 жыл бұрын
Hello ,my Grandparents had, a 1970 V.W. bus And ,my Family members, went Upstate because It, was my Grandmother's ,B-Day that's why I have Old Home movies of that .
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 2 жыл бұрын
Great memories!
@ggolds5
@ggolds5 Жыл бұрын
CAN YOU HELP?. Okay, so I live in the US. Connecticut to be specific. Getting interior camper cabinets are nearly impossible here. Most are in California and if you find them many people won't ship them. SO< Ive called all over the planet literally and Im trying to find the headbanger, corner closet, and sink/stove combo unit for our 76 Westfalia. As for the sink stove unit, there are MANY on Ebay that are being sold that would be perfect- NEW ones, but it says ships Global shipping program which none of the companies seem to know what or how that works. That all said, any ideas on who and where I can get these units from?. Thank you for listening. Love the channel thanks.
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel Жыл бұрын
Sorry i can't help directly... no relevant experience....but can throw this open to our many subscribers! SPECIALIST advice needed here!
@ggolds5
@ggolds5 Жыл бұрын
@@Thecampervanchannel Thank you, much appreciated.
@DanTheManIOM
@DanTheManIOM 3 жыл бұрын
just between us, bays are better....I really enjoy my 78 westy....
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 2 жыл бұрын
We won't tell anyone!
@OMENAKAKKU6999
@OMENAKAKKU6999 11 ай бұрын
I WISHD ID HAD SOME DAY T1-T4 AND T2 MODELS FROM 1969.1970.1971.1972 AND T3 MODELS 1983 AND 1987 AND T1 MODELS 1967. 1968. 1969
@omardelagarza52
@omardelagarza52 Жыл бұрын
Forgot to mention the automatic type2 sold between 1993 to 1998 in USA, to improve the video, Tanks. . .
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel Жыл бұрын
Sorreeeee!
@SuzannesSimpleLiving
@SuzannesSimpleLiving 3 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for a very informative vid,I thoroughly enjoyed the story….I have a t2 bay 1979 called Amber check her out on my small KZfaq channel 😁🇬🇧 new sub here
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting
@CallunaTrip
@CallunaTrip 3 жыл бұрын
Super nice video. Cheers from Poland. Check out our VW bus too.
@Thecampervanchannel
@Thecampervanchannel 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you.....and will check out
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