95% done (the only thing needed to finish is to complete the motor rebuild). I bought this van from the previous owner who had spent the last 4 years restoring this bus. With under 1500 miles to date on this baja, I guess you can say its the true definition of a time capsule as well.ฤก973 VW Transporter. This baja is a throw back to the eighties with all period correct parts. Hundreds of hours went into this build over a 28 year period. This baja is set up for racing or baja competition. 5 point racing seat belt harness driver and passenger. Original mint Sand Blaster tires front and rear (99% tread). Custom hand built wiring harness, four adjustable nitrogen Fox shocks in rear with remote reservoirs. Weber carbs, custom intake, built bus transmission, MSD ignition, K&N filter, K&N sand filter, custom oil cooler, complete custom cage, king pin suspension, adjustable Fox gas shocks up front with remote reservoirs, custom built tubular front suspension that ties in to the full roll cage and rear engine cage. This was a spare no expense, money is no object build. Custom built 1835, custom ported and polished heads. It was only driven 60 miles from 1985 to the time I bought it in 2011. I bought the Baja with only 60 miles on it. The build was started in the mid eighties by the original owner and I completed it in 2011 after I purchased the bug. First place winner at the biggest VW car show in the North West. One of the best, If not the best original Westfalias in existence.1967 Baja. Absolutely ZERO RUST!!! The van was stored for many years, started up and driven every couple weeks to keep seals fresh. This van recently had a brand new motor installed by a professional air cooled VW shop at around 98k miles. I have a stack of over 100 pages of maintenance records in chronological order since 1979. This van has only 116k fully documented original miles. The van has been garaged since 1978 and was treated like a member of the family. The original owner traveled across Germany in 1978 for several months, then had the van shipped back to Washington where it stayed. The repair shop just did over $2000 in work within the last month to make it "cross country road trip ready". This was important to her for the new owner to not have to do any work to the van. Before I bought the van the original owner brought it to the shop and had them do what ever repairs it needed to drive cross country. She is now 97 and can no longer drive the van. Original German plates, mint Westfalia tent, original title, original manuals, paperwork and all accessories! Original window sticker and tourist delivery window sticker from Germany!!! I picked this van up from the original owner who bought this van in Germany new under the euro delivery program. I love driving the automatic late model Westy's, there is nothing like it.Mint interior (all original). This van was also ordered with the California emissions and still retains its original plaque next to the original Westfalia serial number sticker. New 2 liter fuel injected hydraulic valve motor, rebuilt automatic transmission (I have all records). Mint Condition, 1 owner, museum quality 1978 Westfalia euro delivery with original paint!!! Factory AC van. The original purchase price according to the window sticker was $10,432.01 usd. Purchased new under the Euro delivery program on February 17th 1978 from Westfalia Werke's in Wiendebrueck Germany.
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