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Looks like a fabulous time Daniel, I bet your often think fondly of those days.

Did you go through many windscreens with your kombi? Every surfing trip we went on someone's kombi would get a shattered windscreen.

Just to be clear, all of these photos above are by the new owner, taken recently, after the restoration.

But yes, my memories of those times and places shared with my old bus, are priceless!!!

To answer your question Jim, only broke the windshields once, both at the same time, as the spare tire I had mounted on the front came back into my lap or tried too anyway. Which is, in part, why the new owner's restoration costs were so high. He had to cut off and replace the whole front end, including the dash and under dash tray!

Here is a rather poor pic of when I still owned her, January 1988 I believe, copied from a slide of my Ol' Bus, the morning I left on an extended trip down Baja Mexico to the southern tip at Cabo San Lucas.

This is many years after totaling the front end, as you will note here that the front bumper is just the remains of an old Redwood 2x8 that had been on there for many years.


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Sorry Jim, not intending to hijack your thread here, such that if anyone would be interested in seeing or reading any more of the "Life & Times of Bess Bus" this all should be transferred to a new thread and carried on from there.