Super Late Bonus Post!

Lucky for you, Long Island is blessed with people who like waste. And stupidity. This combination of waste and idiocy is displayed perfectly in the ideals of some car collectors. However, the LI VW Club is one exception. No one would ever think of putting money into an air cooled econo box from a different decade is a bad idea. Neither do I, so I went to their latest car show on September 13, 2008 in Deer Park Long Island. Of course there was more than just vans there, so here is an album of all the interesting photos. Please forgive my including regular (non-van) VWs, but some of them were rather interesting. Enjoy!

Help! I'm missing two windows!

Found in Locust Valley, NY: What is looks like we have here is a mashup of two of Volkswagen's most popular vehicles. It seems like some really smart (read: bored) person decided to chop and lower a VW van... and then put it on a Beetle chassis! If you've ever had a bad idea, I don't think it could be this bad. The van was actually so low, it's dual exhausts had rusted into the dirt on which it was parked! The only thing this is missing is two pieces of toast popping out of the top.

The more the merrier!

What we have here is another example of a sweet T2 van. Sadly, we have yet to find anything older, as the East Coast doesn't treat these fine transporters well. (Not like those lucky west coasters!) The blankets covering all the windows do more to describe the destitute drug addicts living inside then all the camping equipment thrown on top. There is some king of weird CB radio thing (obviously for monitoring police channels), and this van looked like it hadn't moved in a couple of days. Please take note of the (matching color!) Schwinn Traveler in front! (This was found just north of south Philly).