21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco - Jalopnik Comments

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

dolo54 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:26:41 EDT

@Murilee Martin: ahh, I was just kidding. I was in SF a few months ago and no, I didn't see any.

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

kleinlowe — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:19:30 EDT

@bmwloco: @morrisseyscoot: '86 Syncro Weekender here, seconding the 21-window-lust, and increasing tha Bus representation on board. We need a secret handshake that represents the essence of VW Bus ownership.

kleinlowe

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

v8corvairpickup — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:04:41 EDT

Two of my favorite vehicles in the above posting! Almost as cool as the '61 Corvair Loadside pickup that I used to own..

v8corvairpickup

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

bozoerrebbe — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:23:17 EDT

sorry about the duplicate post

bozoerrebbe

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

bozoerrebbe — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:22:23 EDT

The 21 window buses are cool, no doubt, but as a former owner of but a '67 split-window and a 72 with so hi-po stuff, I'd want a pickup. The crew cabs are right up there with the Jeep FC-170 in terms of oddball cool quotient.

bozoerrebbe

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

bozoerrebbe — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:14:06 EDT

21 Window, canvas sunroof, split-window Type 2s are pretty cool, but as a former bus owner (a very slow 67 & a 72 with a hi-po Beetle engine), I'd want a crew cab pickup myself. Though the single cab pickups are nifty too.

Busamino?
Kombichero?

bozoerrebbe

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:52:07 EDT

Geez, given the locale and the vehicle, this thing should be a mobile wheatgrass bar. Grow it in the back, vend it from the front. Very SF in my book.

Oh, and I second the vote, "free Murilee...!"

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

Murilee Martin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:54:01 EDT

@PeteJayhawk: I feel the same way. The Man keeps you down!

Murilee Martin

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

Murilee Martin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:52:28 EDT

@dolo54: @dolo54: You don't see many of them in SF anymore; real hippies drive Tercel wagons these days, and nice restored vintage machinery tends to get wrecked real fast by parallel-parking-challenged SUVs.

Murilee Martin

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

pupils — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:58:48 EDT

Wow - throw in some curtains (a lot of curtains) and it's the Second Base Machine.

Best part? There's a 3" crumple zone, for safty.

pupils

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

morrisseyscoot — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:48:25 EDT

My bus is around 5 years newer than this and worth less than the front windows of this bus. The Sambas are the ultimate VW. AWESOME.

morrisseyscoot

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

morrisseyscoot — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:46:16 EDT

@maxforrest32: rear windows were on 63 and earlier. This is a 1964 - 1967 model.

morrisseyscoot

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

Turbo Driver — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:34:52 EDT

Someone ain't mentioned the slider roof? All those windows, no rust, AND the slider isn't leakin'?

Somthin' ain't right..

Turbo Driver

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

dolo54 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:41:47 EDT

I can't help but think the headline should read:
VW Bus Seen in San Francisco, In Other News, Fire is Hot, Water is Wet.

dolo54

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

squablow — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:06:55 EDT

Those stickers are new. Someone sells those reproduction now. Not enough patina on them to be old anyway.

Neat bus, I'm betting it cost the owner a small fortune. I'd personally rather have an A100 or a Greenbriar Corvan but that's just me I guess.

squablow

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

bmwloco — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:31:27 EDT

Viva Buses! I love my '85 Westy and '73 Thing, but a 21 Window Bus is da bomb.

bmwloco

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

monkeyboy04 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:08:13 EDT

The only thing more fun than that would be the 23 window... I love old Busses and I hated selling mine years ago.

monkeyboy04

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

Andrewpetty — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:12:36 EDT

When I think of all the dirty smelly hippies that must have been inside that thing during its tenure as a means of transportation, I am filled with rage. Rage or jealousy, maybe.

Andrewpetty

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

Pete Gaines — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:40:35 EDT

It saddens me to picture Murilee cooped up in an office like us mere mortals. It somehow just seems, well, wrong.

Free Murilee!

Pete Gaines

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

JSmith53 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:36:51 EDT

21 window, but 25 pieces of glass!

JSmith53

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

voodoojoo — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:28:11 EDT

The sheer number of windows hold me back from my absolute fantasies with this one. Seeing not four, not six, but 21 windows to keep up conjures up images first of fear, nervousness and maintenance long before those images of perfect cruises even think about arriving. Those images, it must be said, are probably too stoned to remember to show up in my brain anyway. Anywho, I'm off to go drool at that Ford.

voodoojoo

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

Vintage Racer is out taking pictures — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:09:02 EDT

The only other thing this one needs are the Safari Windows - the ones that flip out at the bottom.

Used to work with a guy who had one of these - THE best beach cruiser...

Vintage Racer is out taking pictures

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

smokeydog001 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:05:14 EDT

Beautiful!

smokeydog001

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

poxpopulus — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:38:46 EDT

@badco/LoJ:

They regularly go for over 50 Large at auction.

poxpopulus

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

tomi-ii — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:36:39 EDT

These blurry-ish cellphone photos kinda add to the retro-feeling!

tomi-ii

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

badco/LoJ — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:36:28 EDT

@smalleyxb122: Under the seat!

This thing is worth cubic dollars. Very valuable.

badco/LoJ

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

bygeorge — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:35:49 EDT

Love. The. Stickers.

This HAS to be a restoration, especially since there are no flux capacitors visible...

bygeorge

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

smsolo1 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:35:31 EDT

love it. id love to see a new one that is aerodynamic, water cooled, equipped with power steering and one of these newfangled high output turbo-diesels.

smsolo1

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

jeremyc — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:35:23 EDT

vintage stickers + vintage bus = vintage awesome.

jeremyc

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

JSmith53 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:34:57 EDT

@smalleyxb122: +1 on the Futurama reference.

JSmith53

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

smalleyxb122 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:31:54 EDT

Long live Haight-Ashbury!

But where's the device to speed up or slow the passage of time?

smalleyxb122

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

The Name's Ash78, Housewares — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:25:27 EDT

@akirachan: cruising down PCH

Since I've been coming to this site, that has come to mean "Project Car Hell". So your comment works both ways!

The Name's Ash78, Housewares

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

akirachan — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:20:07 EDT

I love this thing, it's like the perfect vehicle to have a fun time with bunch of your friends cruising down PCH.

By the way, those little windows at the edge of the roof are being resurrected in one of the new UP! series concepts.

akirachan

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

MaxSmart32 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:14:02 EDT

Is this what they called the Samba? Or did that one have the curved windows on the rear pillars?

MaxSmart32

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

NovaloadMissesPolar — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:13:22 EDT

OK, I'm pretty sure this thing just fell through a time warp/dimensional worm-hole. How else could it be so intact and completely vintage? Especially if it swam over to Alcatraz.

NovaloadMissesPolar

21-Window Volkswagen Transporter Braves Downtown San Francisco

JSmith53 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:10:23 EDT

I saw a fully-restored 21-window bus around here last week. Same color as this one, no stickers, though.

JSmith53