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1977 VW bus KOMBI project. Dream Specialty ride! Bench seating. Complete and running, starts right up! Sal title. As is classic. front end damage nothing a body guy couldn't handle! It's been said the Volkswagen Kombi van or bus started the minivan movement. To be sure, the VW Kombi has had a long run of popularity worldwide -- a popularity that's now seeing a resurgence. Recent results from Barrett-Jackson Auctions have seen early-1960s 23-window VW Kombi vans reaching six figures. A search of Autotrader's used-car listing shows plenty of Volkswagen vans within reach of enthusiasts, many for sale at well under the six-figure mark. Introduced in 1950 to the local German market as a commercial van, the VW van quickly moved into passenger-vehicle mode a year later, when VW saw the need for multi-person transportation, along with lots of cargo storage. In 1951, production of the passenger Kombi reached over 11,000 vehicles. It wasn't until the early 1960s that the Type 2 (VW's official designation for the commercial vehicle) began gaining real attention in the United States. As it quickly gained near-cult status, the Transporter garnered many nicknames beyond 'Kombi.' Names such as 'microbus,' or just 'bus,' were popular throughout the 60s, along with the San Francisco-inspired Hippie van. That's all you had to say for everyone to know you were talking about a VW. During those early years, the Volkswagen Microbus morphed into various forms. From a cargo carrier with no windows behind the driver's seat to a windowed passenger van with three rows of seats, the possibilities seemed endless. There was what became known as the 'Samba' or 'Deluxe Microbus,' which grew to be more popularly named for the number of windows: '21-window' or '23-window,' which included the skylight-type windows along the edges of the roof. Many split-windshield VW vans also had windshield glass that was hinged at the top and pivoted out at the bottom. These 'safari'Body Style: VanDoors: 3
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