The Bus Depot, Inc

Well campers, you know how it is when you've got a problem with the brakes on your car, right? You take it to the brake place and they charge you something like $200 and some change and sell you a brake cylinder, some new brake lines and a warranty, right? Nope, not if you've got a vintage Volkswagen. Brake pedal was returning on kiddo's type 181 (Thing) and needed fixing. It's somehow got disks up front and drums on the back and a pedal not coming back can be an annoyance, not to mention a safety issue. Something really nice about old VeeDubs, they're SIMPLE. Yep you guessed it, I looked at it and can fix it myself, a broken spring.
Enter the Bus Depot. In a timely fashion they shipped me the $2.88 spring and a $20 locking gas cap for the Vanagon. Hey, if you're paying shipping, you might as well get something bigger than a spring. Besides, another thing about vintage VW's they usually didn't have locking caps, or if they did, they've been replaced by an earlier owner with something that didn't as older accessories got scarce. Now you might not know it, but the internet is a real treasure to the old car owner. Fifteen years ago the old car owner had no idea where to find a needed piece or part if it wasn't to be found in the local area. Now all one has to do is search a little, or find a group about your vintage item and VIOLA you can find parts... So when I saw they has locking caps for $20 (yes the same locking caps from Germany that someone's selling on eBay for $30 including shipping) I decided to snap one up. Not that I think someone's stealing my gas, but when it's near $3.00 a gallon now, better sure than sorry. So everyhting arrived today and the caps a real beauty. Fit's nice and looks good too. Better than the radiator cap looking thing that someone (previous owner?) had there until now. I'm driving instead of riding tomorrow, so I'll have a chance to see if leaks fumes or fuel. It also looks like kiddo and I get to turn more wrenches as we change that spring in the next few.
More soon,
-Rob "get a VeeDub" D.