VW Bus Extreme Trailbashing - SST 10 Mule Town Road

[@Gunny426HemiPlymouth]

this is great! I like this a lot! you guys seriously like your buses, im sure all the restoration people with 100 point barndoor deluxes hate you guys, but I love it, taking a bus trail riding, and not really beating the piss out of them!

[@redsorgum]

I love these videos. I used to have a 68 westfalia. I have a 66 beetle. It's my daily driver/work vehicle.

[@FRANCISCOSANCHEZ-ly2mq]

Excelente... Saludos desde Venezuela 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪... KombiNaiguata

[@Mizamook]

¡Muchas gracias! ¡Salud a Venezuela desde Alaska!

[@Mizamook]

(Yes, I used Google translate)

[@euphoricmonk]

After this, they all needed suspension and brake jobs haha..

[@Mizamook]

You'd think that, and understandably so. You might be amazed to find it was not the case. Pretty tough old beasts, these!

[@moon-lit-rider987]

So cool, I’m currently building a 61 rat 1800cc & I’m going to find some people in UK to do some trips like that. Great video’s 👍✨💖

[@Mizamook]

Thank you kindly! Good luck and have FUN! Make some vids ... that's part of the fun too. I'd like to see them. Cheers from AK!

[@bigpeter12]

You all have too much fun! I'm jealous because I could never drive my bay window like you guys do.

[@Mizamook]

Oh you'd be surprised what you can do ... people learned to amaze even themselves on the Shasta Trip.

[@takayama1638]

Makes me wish I still had our '74 Campmobile, or even our '68 Campmobile. Rebuilt engine, etc. good to go.

[@mustie1]

looks like a blast

[@brycepunk1]

Where the hell were you 18 years ago when I had my '71 Camper? Only off-loaded a couple times but loved it. Was such a great stock chassis/suspension for roads like this. I would have been right with you on this trip. CB's! (My interior was gutted inside, had a platform for a futon with storage underneath, cd book library for a ceiling, and seats from an '84 Ford Escort that were incredibly comfortable..) The end with the convoy had me nearly misty-eyed.

[@IAm1InTheIAm]

Hi Gene, great vids! Sorry I missed you during your Alaskan chapter. I'm based up in the Far North with my '58 Sundial that I found out in the woods and am in the process of restoring to functional for the purpose of traveling around doing the stuff you guys do in your vids. With all your group's collective knowledge of suspension setup's, etc, to get you out and back, have you ever done a vid on the subject or could you steer me in the right direction? Thanks again!

[@Mizamook]

Oh we are still in AK, I AM! (Who are you and where are you? We are in Gustavus) As for your questions: Short answer: Bone Stock!!! Longer version: Bone stock with KYB GR2 shocks, I prefer, and if you can, use 15" rims even on the later splitties, but you should have them on your '58. Clearance, you see. I like 205/75/15's. One thing I did on my Doublecab was to use a solid front trans mount. Noisy, for sure, but no longer shifting probs when the crap rubber mounts separate or go wonky from the hard use. All that is MY opinion ... my DC had a bay beam, so it was higher in front, but my '66 is lower even being stock, and still gets around quite well. Other people have used mid trans straps (because a lot of these guys like to break their trannies and don't know how to be gentle) and done moderate lifts, etc. Can't say I've necessarily seen any real improvement done that give reliable improvements in off road handling, except for the obvious: clearance, which of course adds its own challenges in other ways.

[@thehorsehunter]

I'M SO FUCKING JEALOUS!!!!!!!

[@htimsrM]

Awesome, I have no idea how I've never seen these videos before. Complete surpise at how many were there.

[@goatmansavage5958]

That's what these Transporters were meant for, and why a lot of them (from the 70s) are still going strong in third world countries.

[@itakeyourphoto]

This looks like a lot of fun! Were do you get all these old VWs? I feel happy to say I own a VW van too! except mine is a 2010 model

[@osbertobuenrostro7998]

that looks cool and fun man

[@MoinMoin222]

What modifications are required for this kind of driving in a VW?

[@Mizamook]

MoinMoin222 None! I'm not being facetious, either.

[@gillfowdy]

Very cool. Are you communicating with regular CB radios?

[@Mizamook]

Phil Gowdy Thanks! Yes, except for the odd broken CB and the occasional "infested with alien mind gobbler" CB, the rest are pretty regular. The users are mostly highly irregular, which is why the whole thing is fun.

[@travelvw]

Great road!

[@RichardNaslund]

Yeah that would be a lot of fun I could do that real easy 😊😊😊

[@16989473]

looks fun : )

[@TheCramunhao666]

uma viagem de verdade !

[@wanaraz]

FUN!!!!!

[@виталийнекоторов-т1й]

Вот это на Западе называется бездорожьем -ха-ха!!! А экстрима я что то не увидел...

[@new2gold]

Where is This???

[@Mizamook]

Muletown Road, east end of Whiskeytown Reservoir, Redding, California. We took a road from Platina Road, and it looks like according to Google that they are calling it Paige Bar Road, showing Muletown turning off back toward town. We came out at a campground by the lake, and exited onto 299

[@new2gold]

Kool thanks ... I cant wait to get my bus out and about!!

[@bikesfixadafamiliadorodrig8033]

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[@ldygzlle1291]

Wow! Interesting to see what these busses are capable of, but I have been wanting, shopping for a bus for years, and I have to admit this video makes me cringe as these are classic babies that deserve to be preserved.Please don't kill them! Someday…sigh*

[@Mizamook]

Thanks for your response. Please consider that these buses are better cared for than many - in fact, a good amount of them would still be rotting in the weeds if they had not been rebuilt specifically for this trip. Not only a few of them are put into tip top running shape, given some much needed tlc, and are later sold after the trip as "proven" - - - a lot more trustable than just buying something used from some rip off artist. Plus, even the buses that have suffered the most damage on this trip are restored to functionality! That's the essence of their value: They CAN be immortal!

[@JulioLeone]

🇧🇷

[@marcelomartinsvendasdrywall]

caramba que legal

[@bobert4him]

Das ist kein Weg, um eine Frau zu behandeln.

[@heliohenriques8579]

muito dez.