Find or Sell Used Cars, Trucks, and SUVs in USA

1973 Vw Bus/vanagon, White/blue, Great Condition, 3 Door 7 Passenger Iconic Bus on 2040-cars

US $12,500.00
Year:1973 Mileage:74737
Location:

De Forest, Wisconsin, United States

De Forest, Wisconsin, United States

Here's a 1973 VW 3 door Bus up for sale.  This bus spent most of its life in California thru 95    Then came to Wisconsin and spent its winters in storage.  Then the second owner decided to start restoring her over time.  Body is very solid, Underneath pictures shows a real survivor. Floors are exceptional condition for a 40 plus year old vehicle. Runs better than new. Only has about 5,000  miles on a bigger than original,  Porche Boxster motor installed by Mofoco VW out of Milwaukee.  New clutch at time of motor exchange. Still has original tranny and shifter.  CV joints replaced,Trans flush, Fresh oil and Tune. New 8 ply Hancook Tires.  New Front and Rear sway bars added to cure most cross wind problems. Twin tipped exhaust, single Weber carb. Optima battery.   I believe the Porsche Motor is 2000-2100 cc.  odometer states 74,737 but is non-operable.

 Interior has been updated with marine grade vinyl from sewfine on  front kick panels and back rear side panels and rear lift door. Front seats and second row 3/4 seat are recent kits from Sewfine. Has interior curtains for all windows and windshield. Eight speaker cd player. All seat belts are there and set up to haul 7 passengers. New laminate flooring in second & 3rd row seating areas. New carpeting in rear hatch area.   I also has a custom second row seat  that  that turns in a bed, that's currently out of the vehicle if you would choose to want to travel and sleep in the bus. It fits in there very nicely, and folds up for a full size seat when not in the down position. I would let it go with the bus  Its at least a $500.00 option when it was installed but I decided to get it back more to original.  All glass panels are excellent condition. Windows roll up and down.  Doors shut firmly and latch correctly. All lights, signals, horn work as they should. Speedometer works but odometer doesn't.  It has an additional heater fan set up fan/switch  to help distribute heat from the back. The dash  heater cables are at the dash just need to be hooked up.

 The bus exterior  was painted with a brush by second owner, and all the metal  seems  rust free and metal has been very well protected bye this paint. No rust holes, Has some very small areas that could be some bondo, can't quite tell without getting the paint off.  It is 41+ years old. Could use a nice paint job but still get countless looks and people asking about it. It could be left as is.   With new paint you would have a 20K-25K+ bus.

All in all it runs great going down the highway.  Porsche motor with duel exhaust it sounds smooth.  I had it on the interstate and it cruise's  right along.65-75mph  Brakes are in good shape. Second owner took it all over the country and had no issues. gets about 18-20 mpg.   Some spare parts, VW book & manuals. Anyone can email me with a question - ILuvarchery@msn.com

Auto Services in Wisconsin

Window Film Specialists ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Window Tinting, Glass Coating & Tinting
Address: 1836 Saddlebrook Ln, Greenleaf
Phone: (920) 593-8704

Window Film Specialists ★★★★★

Automobile Parts & Supplies, Glass-Automobile, Plate, Window, Etc-Manufacturers
Address: 3993 Wright Cir, Green-Bay
Phone: (920) 336-2883

Unos Auto Sales ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, New Car Dealers, Used Car Dealers
Address: Bay-View
Phone: (414) 455-3155

Sturtevant Auto ★★★★★

Automobile Parts & Supplies, Used & Rebuilt Auto Parts, Automobile Salvage
Address: 2145 NE Frontage Rd, North-Prairie
Phone: (262) 835-2300

Steve`s Car & Truck Service ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Truck Service & Repair
Address: 119 S Main St, Lake-Mills
Phone: (920) 648-2766

Pop`s Preowned Vehicles ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Used Car Dealers, Auto Oil & Lube
Address: 9055 N 76th St, River-Hills
Phone: (414) 395-2849

Auto blog

VW builds 250,000th Passat in Chattanooga in just two years

Sun, 26 May 2013

It hasn't been without incident or union organizing drive, but the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, TN has built its 250,000 Passat in just a little over two years. The Night Blue Passat TDI with black leather has come just two years and five weeks after the first customer car came off the line on April 18, 2011.
In the last year the plant operated at the 150,000-unit capacity that it was intended for, but the downturn in Passat sales and subsequent worker layoffs mean it will be a challenge to repeat the feat. The plant does have the world's largest solar park, though, and you can't take that away from them.
You'll find the official hand-clapping in the press release below.

2013 Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid

Tue, 12 Feb 2013

More Fun Than A Prius, Less Sensible Than A TDI
Let's have some fun, and do some math. We're talking pretty rudimentary stuff, multiplication and division, to figure out if the upcoming Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid can make a baseline case for itself against two very strong competitors in this segment. The competitors in question, at least for now, are two more Jettas: the diesel-drinking TDI and the fit-for-the-masses SE with VW's long-serving 2.5-liter engine.
To keep the equations clean and simple (hey, we're writers), we'll calculate based on the most flattering EPA miles per gallon stat from highway driving for all cars, assume a healthy 20,000 miles driven per year, and factor in today's average cost for the respective fuels these three require: diesel (TDI), regular (SE) and premium (Hybrid). We'll also start with the base prices for all models.

VW outsells GM in China for first time in 8 years

Fri, 26 Oct 2012

In case you didn't know, Volkswagen is hell-bent on becoming the largest automaker in the world. The German carmaker has inched closer to that goal, having outsold General Motors in China last quarter for the first time in eight years.
Volkswagen's sales in China, its largest marker, increased by 21 percent last quarter to 704,991 units. Those numbers almost tripled GM's third-quarter growth, and were enough to beat out the American automaker's 664,765 sales. GM, however, still leads in year-to-date sales in China by a slim margin of around 77,000 units. The Asian nation also happens to be GM's largest market, and according to the report in Automotive News, China's car market may grow to be larger than the US, Japan and Germany combined in three years' time.
About the news his company was bested in China by VW last quarter, GM CEO Dan Akerson is quoted saying, "It's not whether you're the biggest car manufacturer. It's whether you want to be the most profitable." It should be noted of these figures that GM includes truck figures, yet excludes Hong Kong and Macau from its Chinese sales numbers, while VW does just the opposite. Through September of this year, Volkswagen had 5 of the 10 best selling vehicles in China. GM boasted three of the cars on that list.