Mankato, MN VW Club - Hamburger Run

[BellePlaine]

I just wanted to share a pic I took of the cars in a Southern Minnesota VW club that I joined this weekend. The fall colors are about at their peak right now (although today it is snowing!) and the club invited me to join them on their Fall drive. In total we went about 100 miles along the Minnesota River valley. At the moment, I have the only running bus in the club! Me, my dad, and my too little kids went along. It was great.

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[hambone]

Minnesota Pilots are a brave lot.

[Manfred]

At the moment, I have the only running bus in the club!

Sounds like Collin could have a lot of work a head of him. Are you going to hook a brother up?

[BellePlaine]

At the moment, I have the only running bus in the club!

Sounds like Collin could have a lot of work a head of him. Are you going to hook a brother up?

Of course, I'd love to have Colin come to Minnesota and work on buses. Bugs are fun and all but they are a little cramped for camping.

On a side note, this old farmer pulls up to the end of my driveway as I was getting my bus ready for the club drive. He starts asking me questions about my bus and then mentions that he has a bus which was pulled from the cow pasture where it sat for 10 years. So I went with him to go take a look at his bus. He has a '73 kombi which isn't too badly rusted but everything else on it is shot. The motor is missing carburation, the interior is all there (except for the middle seat) but needs reupholstering. And everything such as turn signal lenses was either badly cracked or missing. He wanted to know what it was worth and I told him between $300 and $500 bucks. It's not a project that I would have the money for.