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Moon river

It’s almost a universal truth amongst VW Bus people that Split Screen Buses are the pinnacle of ownership. That can soon change, though, when people drive one!

Likewise, it’s a well-known fact that when people get into something, pretty much anything except technology, the desire to buy an earlier model with each subsequent purchase takes hold. Yet what many fail to realise is that while VWs of the 1950s are undeniably very pretty, they don’t always drive as well as later versions, which is an important consideration if you’re the sort of person who loves to put a ton of miles on your VW each year.

I’ve been as guilty as the next person of the ‘earlier is better’ mantra in the past, though I’ve never lost my love of Bay Window Buses since being

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