Home of the 1955 splitwindow

Hi there,

Welcome to our 1955 Split Window Bus Site.

We are big fans of cars created in Wolfsburg. So you can guess why we bought this bus. Our former car was a 1967 beetle convertible. It was a real nice car. Due to some problems (not with the car) we had to decide to sell it. This was about eleven years ago. Yes we know, its been too long. But finally we decided to buy an air-cooled Volkswagen again. This was in April 2001. We wished to buy a split screen bus because we have four children, so we need a little space in the car. (At the time we owned the convertible we had only two children.) The second wish was it had to be a combi- or microbus. But most of all we wanted it to be in good shape, we didn't want to do any spray jobs or welding jobs. (because we can't do such things :-((

So after we knew what we wanted, we started looking for the bus. First of all we contacted some air-cooled specialists, to see if we could buy the bus we wanted, with the money we wanted to spend. They told us that we should be able to buy a nice (not perfect) splitty for the amount of money we had to spend. Also we looked on the internet to see what was for sale. That's were the problems started. One of the Jan's bad habits is, that he isn't patient. We will save you all the details but we started talking again, over witch car we were going to buy. Maybe we should buy a bay-window instead, or maybe a beetle, convertible or notchback. This was because we couldn't find our so wanted split window bus. But as we were looking for the bus we saw some other nice air-cooled Volkswagens. Luckily we didn't buy one, because we really wanted a splitty. And then, when we were almost desperate :-)), we found the car we were looking for on the internet. By that time it was 11 July 2001. We wont forget the date because as we were driving the 150 Km. to the guy who sold the bus, we heard on the radio that it was the day the music died a bit. Herman Brood a famous rocker in the Netherlands decided to end his life by jumping from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton. Well this is how the story of our bus started. On this site we will keep you informed about the adventures with the bus. Have a nice time here and don't forget to send us your comments.

Jan, Ans and the kids.

What's New?

09-09-2001 Site online

10-09-2001 Made some minor changes to all pages

26-09-2001 VW euro 2001 online

27-01-2002 A new page Dutch VW Convoys

18-03-2002 Added some new things to the site

07-04-2002 We put a human click button on our bus page now you can see if we are online and chat with us.

09-04-2002 Overall check up, made many small changes.

28-04-2002 We added some pics to the latest project page.

We also put some pics from local drivers to the local events page.

And four new pages from our trip to Bergum.

03-05-2002 The site has two more new pages. Old radio's and the interior page are online now. And we added two pics

to the T3 page

05-05-2002 Five pages from the meeting in Bruinisse

12-05-2002 Updated VW convoys

19-05-2002 And again we have a new page! Miscellaneous Curious? Just check it out.

We also updated the Local Events Page with some pictures.

We have updated the Flyer page from the Int. VW Bus Meeting with a roadmap and some pictures.

And also new four new pages from our latest meeting in Eijsden.

Changed VW Convoys a little.

04-06-2002 Six new pages with pictures from our weekend to Gulpen.

29-06-2002 Added the pictures from our trip to Budel 14/15/16-06-2002.

85-08-2002 Pictures from Bug-A-Roo Averbode Belgium 2002, and three cars added to the local drivers page

FAQ's (Our own;-)) at this time)

Hey you are Dutch why is your site in 'English'?

We like to please as many visitors as possible. And yes we're too lazy to make this site in two languages.

Your English isn't correct!

We know, you are absolutely right! Just laugh about it, and if you don't know what's written ask us an explanation.