VW unleashed its 2014 Buli concept on the world at the Geneva Auto Show this week (press release here) Here is a Road and Track article

I'm not liking it.. looks like an overgrown Scion to me..

This spy shots article (again Road and Track)
tries to guilt VW to build a more 'bus' like version Even though the engine is not in the right place.. a TDI engine would make up for it :) Based on the Passat sedan chassis and coming out in 2013/14? I'll believe it when I see it.

Till then.. and for many years longer.. I'll continue enjoying my 90 Syncro Westie :)

"The Bus" Trailer from Damon Ristau on Vimeo.

A 'box' on wheels! :-) Vintage VW Transporter Commercial

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Yosemite 2008!

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We're back from the fall camping trip to Yosemite Valley.
The boys had a great time, made some new friends and got
lots of hiking and exploring in. While there, we heard the
rockfall from Glacier Point (above Curry Village)



Sounded like the trash truck was up early that morning
(6:45am or so?) but then it kept going, and you could hear
the rushing sound (wind) after the main thunder sound went
away. We were camped all the way at the far end of Upper Pines
(about 200yards from the Happy Isles trail head area. My
thoughts immediately went back to the 1996 rockfall that wiped out
that area, and how close we were camped to that spot, then the 1999 rockfall that took the life of a young climber. Yikes!

Rockfall photos:

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Photos from the trip:

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Syncro De Mayo Truck Hill

Sync Roll O Meters!



Lucas of GoWesty handing them out at SdM 2007

Fast and the Furious - Hockenheimring Drift

About 17secs in.. "Vanagon Drift"!

"A Day at the Races" - Phoenix BugORama 2007

Some video from the drag races that day. Taken with a Canon Powershot SD800 IS (Digital ELPH) Cheesy music in the background was done by me in Apple's Garage Band.

Deep Purple!

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Originally uploaded by honemastert.

Some photos from the 2007 event this past Sunday. The full flickr set is
here

The VW Dakkar T5