Monthly Archives: December 2010
Wabi-Sabi and the Art of Volkswagen Restoration
(Gus with his awning out in his North Carolina days) During the almost four years I’ve owned Gus, I’ve wrestled with the concept of restore vs. preserve. Now I enjoy a beautifully restored car as much as the next guy. …
Front floor cleanup
Gus’s front floor was pretty rusty. A lot of VW buses have this problem. Luckily for Gus (and me), the rust hadn’t gone all the way through. So I busted out the trusty POR-15 products once again and got to …
Dash and windshield lip restoration
I had taken Gus’s windshield out because it had a big crack in it, and I knew there was rust under the lower edge. It’s a common place for buses to rust out. I was hoping mine wouldn’t be too …
Sad ending to a great day, part two (aka Sad Ending)
So Colin left our house after an extremely productive day of working on Gus. After the kids were in bed, I went on the computer. For some reason I went on the Itinerant-Air-Cooled website (which Colin is a major part …