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Thank you. I wasn't really looking for a VW when I happened upon this one, though I've always kind of liked them. A friend of my dad had about 10 or so of them sitting at his property and asked if I was interested in one. Most were stripped out junk but this one was still mostly complete. It...

Pleasant Valley Conservancy, Wisconsin.

In October I went on a small camping trip in the '66 VW. Several years back I built a small sleeping platform for inside the car that is installed after removing the passenger seat and back seat. With a foam pad and a sleeping bag, the little VW becomes a very basic camper. I stack my food...

An older picture of the '66 VW heading toward Chimney Rock, Nebraska. Still use the car and it is still basically the same.

Ha. I've got a similar one. I worked for the city parks department for a few years. A couple of months after I started, I needed to go get a trailer and bring out a small spray rig from the main shop to the park we were working at. It was my first time hooking up a trailer. I made sure I had...

Above the morning fog while standing at the edge of a recently mowed hay field in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Sunrise through the trees at the edge of a cornfield a few miles away from the last picture

Glacial Park, Illinois.

Otter Creek at Baxter's Hollow, Wisconsin.

Thanks. Here's a picture of the wood sleeping platform in the car. It's built of some cheesy OSB and 2x4's that were stacked in the rafters of my parents' garage for who knows how long. It extends forward under the dashboard. I put a foam pad on it and a sleeping bag. I lay with my head...

Thanks. I've come across a few other people also going cross country in old vehicles while on my trips. The pictures definitely make the VW look better than in person. It doesn't have a dent-free panel on it and the passenger side has a mismatched red door and yellow front fender covering up...

Thank you for the information. I'm a bit young to have experienced the heyday of aircooled VW's as plentiful and cheap transportation, but I've enjoyed driving the wheels off this one. They are still very reliable and relatively capable cars if you maintain them right but are now solidly in...

Thanks for the welcome. I may make a couple of posts about some past adventures and I'm planning to get out for some new trips this year. The VW is in its winter hibernation right now, but once the salt is washed off the roads up here it'll be back out.

Hello, I'm Tim from Wisconsin. I've enjoyed road trips and the outdoors for quite a while, but just recently happened upon this forum. My main mode of transportation for the past decade has been my trusty old 1966 VW Beetle. I resurrected it in 2010 after it had sat in a field for 20 years...