1966 Microbus - Closeup!
This is the same blue and white bus a coupple of photos earlier in this photostream, from a closer perspective .
While Microbuses were popular with hippies, many of them were used as station wagons by staid suburbanites. A photo from one VW brochure showed teenage musicians loading their gear into a Microbus . . . and they look more like they're a junior auxiliary of the Lawrence Welk Orchestra than the Grateful Dead.
VW acknowledged and celebrated its hippie past when Jerry Garcia died. It ran an ad showing a drawing of a crying Bus with the caption, "Jerry Garcia, 1942-1995."
1966 Microbus - Closeup!
This is the same blue and white bus a coupple of photos earlier in this photostream, from a closer perspective .
While Microbuses were popular with hippies, many of them were used as station wagons by staid suburbanites. A photo from one VW brochure showed teenage musicians loading their gear into a Microbus . . . and they look more like they're a junior auxiliary of the Lawrence Welk Orchestra than the Grateful Dead.
VW acknowledged and celebrated its hippie past when Jerry Garcia died. It ran an ad showing a drawing of a crying Bus with the caption, "Jerry Garcia, 1942-1995."