VW Camper & Bus

American beauty

If you’ve carried out a restoration yourself you’ll know that regardless of how well organised you are, or how meticulously you’ve timetabled everything, right down to delivery dates on parts, things rarely go to plan. Sometimes you have to have a take a deep breath, have a rethink, and start all over again.

This isn’t always the owner in question’s fault, however, and that’s certainly true of Adam Young, custodian of this ’63 Split Screen Bus. The original plan was to get the body restored in the States before exporting it over, then get all the mechanical bits sorted here as soon as it had been unloaded from the container. But as Adam will go on to explain, fate had other ideas…

“I’ve worked in Houston, Texas over the last 15 years in the oil and gas industry,

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