what is my bus??

[1970bayboy]

Hay there still kinda new to the scene and I'm wondering what my bus is?? i see all the slang terms like: kombi and micro bus and westy and fat chick and bay window and I'm just wondering what mine is?

i know it's a bay window but is that it ( kinda boring )

my bus is a 1970 , IRS, wide five , drum all around non- camper, sliding door ( 1 only ) no roof center console, walk through front seats, i think thats it?

thx Joby

[Shayna Jaymie]

Do you have a picture?

[1970bayboy]

yes i do . And now i even know how to post it....

it took me a while, seem's my camera is too good??

[bretto]

i would say transporter, but i don't know much about bays.

a walkthru is pretty much standard equipment on bays, benches are hard to find. all bays had sliding side doors. looks like the one that was sitting at mission a year ago when i worked there.

[1970bayboy]

Yes it was at mission, Any thought's on the bus??

[karmann57]

From what I can see it looks alot nicer than mine, but then what should one expect for $250? ;D

I look forward to more pics.


Shane

[ken]

I found a dealer brochure the other night for type 2's dating to 1968 (the change over year from split to bay).

Your model is officially called "window van"

[1970bayboy]

mmm. ...... a window van , sounds funny i think i'll call it a bay just sounds better and people won't look at me funny.

then again people alway's look at me funny anyway so window bus it is.....haha

my window bus sure would look good lowerd and with a phat boy muffler on it hay Ken..............hahaha se ya soon

Joby

[riffraff]

Your bus is many of those things
Likely a bay Fat Chick Kombi.
Bay window for the one piece windshield
kombi was the basic bus, then microbus, then de Luxe. That meant more in the split world than the bay world.
Westy is short for Westphalia - the only company authorized by VW to do camper conversions.

Fat chick is a coloquial term used to describe late model dubs. All bay windows are fat chicks, just as all Super Beetles are fat chicks. That is the only distinction that everyone agrees on.
However, the more elitist one becomes, the more vehicles fall into the category of fat chick. For instance - in the bus world, an "early" bus is one with pressed bumpers (Pre 59). The pressed bumper guys consider over rider bumper buses to be fat chicks.
Guys with bullet buses like to refer to wide hatch (64-67)split buses as fat chicks. The Barndoor (50-55) hardcores consider anything with an opening hatch to be a fat chick.
56 and 57 Beetles are considered fat chicks by the 53-55 oval owning crew. All ovals are fat chicks to the split beetle guys and possibly the Kommanderwagen owners consider mass produced splits to be fat chicks.

As the disease progresses, one generally finds themselves wanting an earlier and earlier bus, the need to own a bus that isn't a fat chick by any standards.

[1970bayboy]

not me i like fat chicks