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**The Iconic Volkswagen Bus: A Legacy Born Out of War**

It's the van that inspired a million road trips. The air cooled splitwindowed love machine. The hippie highway hopper, the Libyan revenge van. It's one of the most iconic and recognizable vehicles ever made.

**A Surprising Origin Story**

Did you know this love bus was born outta war, and why in the heck did a US president conspire to kill it? This is everything you need to know to get up to speed on the Volkswagen bus.

**The Legacy Lives On**

This episode is sponsored by Grand Turismo seven, now available on PlayStation four and PlayStation five. I think this means we made it.

**A Gaming Montage**

Hey Jerry, you see this comment? - Yo, who's the best driver at Donut? Huh, well obviously it's me. - Me. - It's me Nolan. - It's me. - Obviously it's me Nolan. - What you think you're better than me. - Oh, I know I am. - Well, why don't prove it, Jerry? - Oh, you name the time and the place Nolan.

**A Heated Competition**

Grand Turismo Seven PS five right now. Player one. Jeremiah Burton 22 years old. If wrecking Nolan's wrong, I don't wanna be right - Player two. Two Nolan Sykes not 22. And I'm about to bring the heat. (flame thrower blowing) (Buzzer ringing) Going down, Jerry.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- It's the van that inspireda million road trips.The air cooled splitwindowed love machine.The hippie highway hopper,the Libyan revenge van.It's one of the most iconicand recognizable vehicles ever made.Did you know this lovebus was born outta war,and why in the heck did a USpresident conspire to kill it.This is everything you need to knowto get up to speed on the Volkswagen bus.(upbeat gaming music)- This episode is sponsoredby Grand Turismo seven,now available on PlayStationfour and PlayStation five.I think this means we made it.Hey Jerry, you see this comment?- Yo, who's the best driver at Donut?Huh, well obviously it's me.- Me.- It's me Nolan.- It's me.- Obviously it's me Nolan.- What you think you're better than me.- Oh, I know I am.- Well, why don't prove it, Jerry?- Oh, you name the timeand the place Nolan.(Nolan echo's)- Grand Turismo Seven PS five right now.- Player one.- Jeremiah Burton 22 years old.If wrecking Nolan's wrongI don't wanna be right- Player two.- Two Nolan Sykes not 22.And I'm about to bring the heat.(flame thrower blowing)(Buzzer ringing)Going down, Jerry(car engines revving)- Stop ramming me dude."Grand Turismo" has alwaysbeen the real driving simulatorand GT seven is the best one yet.- Buy, tune and race your waythrough the solo campaign.Or if you love going headto head with friends,you can compete in theGT sport mode like us.- And thanks tothe power of the PS five.You get the most realistic at 420 carsand over 90 tracks withdynamic weather conditions,in stunning 4K and HDR and 60 FPS.- Whether you're playingon a SIM setup like usor feeling all thesubtle bumps on the roadon your dual sense wireless controller,"Grand Turismo" seven helpsyou feel your positionon the road like no other racing game(car engines roaring)- No, no, no, no, no, no!(car engine roaring)- Yes, told you Jerry I'm the best.- Yeah, yeah rematch tomorrow?- I'll be here.- All right, I'm gonna getoutta here, later Nolan.(car engine revving)- It's the coolest thing I've ever seen.(upbeat music)- You might know it as the Transporteror the bus or the Microbus orthe Vanagon or the Caravellebut it doesn't matter what you call it.If you ask anyone in theworld what the most iconic busor van is nine times outta 10,they're gonna say the VW bus.And why is that?It's underpowered, It's smallfor a bus and for a van.It can't even do wheelies.But it is beloved especiallyhippies and van lifers.The VW bus is so synonymous with hippiesthat when Jerry Garcia died in 1995,Volkswagen honored thegrateful dead front manwith an ad featuring a VWbus with a tear streamingfrom one headlight.That is some serious branding.Cars can't cry!That's one of the best things about 'em.Now I'm getting ahead of myselfbecause even though mostpeople know the VW busbecause of the hippies.Its story doesn't start there.Oh no, we are gonna turn this bus aroundand head back in time topost world war II Germany.In 1947 a Dutch businessman named Ben Pon,owner of Pon's Automobielhandel,became the first dealeroutside of Germany to sell Volkswagen.Even though this madePon super, super rich,his real legacy would be the projectthat he worked on next.A year earlier in 1946 Ponvisited VW's Wolksburg factory,during his tour he saw,what Volkswagen workerscalled a Plattenwagen.It's an improvisedflatbed parts hauler basedon the Beetle chassisthat they used to moveparts around the factory.Pon took one look oh at the plattenwagenand saw Dutch mark sign in his eyes.And then on April 23rd1947 he was inspiredto sketch out a veryhilariously simple van.I mean, a dog could draw this van.(dog barks)Now, even though drawing a vandoesn't seem like a big deal.It was, now this whole van idea,was pretty radical up until that point,moving large groups ofpeople was done by trains,buses or covered trucks.Large passenger vehicles werealmost exclusively failed concept cars,like the Rumpler Tropfenwagenand the Dymaxion car.And neither of those madeit to mass production,which is a bummer sinceRumpler Tropfenwagen,really rolls off the tongueit's practically poetry.So Pon brought his sketch to the VW execsand they were like, wunderbar!But the Volkswagen factorywas too busy building bugsto do anything else.So, it took two more yearsto finally build their first prototype.The type 29, VW engineerstook the prototypeto a wind tunnelat the TechnicalUniversity of Braunschweig.Beautiful language.Where they used the windresistance to come upwith two of the buses trademark features.A split windshield anda V-shaped roof line.Then they took a breakto eat some liver sausageand drink big warm beers out of a boot.(classic marching music)Those weren't the only distinctdesign elements though.The type two was also oneof the first vehicles with a cab over.Something where the driverabove the front wheelswith the engine at the rear.Now placing the driver directlyover the wheels improvedvisibility as wellas made more room for passenger space.You would never know it butthe original ultra comfyand roomy bus was the exact same lengthas a new Volkswagen Golf today, insane.The only downside type two was this slow.The original air cold 1.1 liter flat four,cranked out just 25horsepower, which meantthat it had a top speed of awhopping 55 miles per hour.And it took two and ahalf weeks to get there.The bus was geared to makethe most of that power,but you only can do so muchwith 25 horses, ask Nolan.He's a horse girl, he's tried.Volkswagen's board approvedthe van now called the type twoor transporter like Jason Statham.- Why not?- And the first production model rolledoff the assembly lineon November 12th, 1949.VW started with one versionof the bus called the Kombi.Now the name Kombi comes froma super long German word.Are we ready, Kombinationskrafwagen.Now that translates tocombination vehicle.That means it's both apassenger and cargo vehicle.Now the Kombi featuredonly two side windowsand removable seats.So you could fit a bunch of (beep) in it,so much (beep) you could put in there,or you could put other stufflike boxes or whatever,but you also put ton of (beep).All the (beep) you want.Volkswagen marketed its new machineas a more cost effective station wagon.- That's it Dear theVolkswagen station wagon.The one that holds about twice as muchas the average station wagon.- They also released the firstpanel van, the commercial.for moving even more (beep),you thought you were movinga lot of (beep) before,No boy, you weren't evenbeginning to scratch the surfaceof how much (beep) you could move.Now this is commercial(beep) moving all right, professional.Production started slowand only about 9,500,type two's came sputteringout of Wolksburg that year.But over time the incredible flexibilityof the bus made it extremely popular.VW introduced a more luxuriousversion of the Kombi called,the Microbus in May 1950 and then,a 23 window deluxe microbusalso known as the Samba.(samba music)Oh, now we're getting spicy.And that came out in June, 1951.Now this particular modelwas first marketed as usefulfor touring the Alps.'Cause you're gonna need a lot of windowsto see all them Alps.I drove through the Alps one time,I tell you what after aboutthree days I got boredof all the beauty.I was sick of it.It's like, oh that lookslike a castle from Disney.Oh, that look how green that waterfall is.You get bored.Much like Bradley Cooper thetype two's were limitless.VW introduced a flatbedpickup truck type two in 1952.You could get it in asingle cab and a crew cab.You could get it as a panel van,a double door panel van,a high roof panel van atthe VW factory in Brazil,they made a type twotaxi called the Lotacao,which had six front hingedoors in the passenger areaand four bench seats.Now I cannot stress this enough.There were so many vans!Volkswagen eventually caught windthat outdoor enthusiastswere customizing the microbusto use as a camper.So they called up theirbuddies at Westfalia,a German company known forbuilding carts and wagens.They started making camper conversion kitsand by 1951 the Westfalia camping van,AKA, the Westy was born.(baby crying)Now this OG camper vanfeatured a special interiorand optional popup top,ideal for getting away from it all.Quick tangent, Westy'sare basically the reasonthat the hashtag van lifecommunity exists today.Camping has always been popular.I mean, people used to have to do it,it used to just be called being alivebut Westfalia made it 100times more convenient.I mean you just throw allyour (beep) in your vanand also your camping stuff.You take it to the next camping spot.Westfalia outfitted VW busesfrom the early fifties,all the way to 2003 withall sorts of layoutsand gadgets for the glamping lifestyle.I'm talking, sinks,cabinets, fold out beds,fold out tents, curtains,electric hookups, a freaking folding tablewhere you could play strippoker with forest animals.What clothes are they taking off?I don't know.Westfalia never skipped ageneration of VW you busand you can still find every generationof Westy roaming aroundif you look hard enough.Some people even swap the air cold enginesfor Subaru engines whichthey pay for with moneythat they earn playing strippoker with forest animals.It's a whole thing read about it.Maybe try open a book sometime, pathetic.Back to the story.In 1967, the original T1 bus was retiredafter an incredible 18year production run.Ending its life with 54 horsepower,more than double what it started with.The T1 was replaced bythe second generation.Volkswagen Microbus, AKAthe Bay Window or T2.And just like the James Cameron classic,this one was bigger.It ditched the split windshield,it replaced several thousand small windowswith larger, longer windows.And it protected Sarah Connors's sonfrom the bad Terminator.Like even though the typetwo had six generations,we in America usually think of the T1or T2 when we picture the VW bus.And that's mainly, I don't say this oftenand I promise I'll never say it againbut it's mainly thanks to hippies.It's pretty much the onlything they've ever done,besides ruin the planetfor everybody else.They did that.Hippies found that the VWbus was cheap to maintainand great for transporting large groupsof stinky jerks to rallies,protests and concerts.The microbus became knownfor wild paint jobs,symbol of protests against theboring run of the mill brownand tan stands and theaverage American, right?- I'm telling you man everythird blink is slower.- The sixties weren'tgood to you, were they?- They were even featured on album coverswith counterculture heroes like Bob Dylanor the Beachy Boys.And most importantly you could bonk in it.Yeah boy, you lay all theway out on one of these boys.There's a reason thatwe associate the VW buswith hippies and not disco, dogs.(disco music)After 1971, it becamesuper hard to get oneand not because they allgot bought by deadheads.It's actually because of an import lawthat changed the us carmarket for decades to come.Now in response to European tariffson American chicken exports,president Lindon B Johnsonintroduced the chicken tax,say 25% tax on potato starch,dextrin, brandy andlight trucks from Europe.AKA a fun Saturday night kit, baby.(whip lashing)And you might be asking yourself,James, chicken wasn't on this list.Why in the heck would itbe called the chicken tax?Have some (beep) patience, okay,I'm gonna tell ya, geez.This import tax was inretaliation to European taxeson cheap American chicken.(chicken clucking)This chicken was so cheap.It was messing up their whole economy.That's what I call some cheap chicken.So LBJ's administration claimedthat grouping these importstogether equaled the amountof sales lost by our downhome American chicken farmers.And just as a note,the chicken tax is still in effect today.When LBJ signed the tax into law the priceof the bus immediately went up by 25%.For a van that's supposed to be cheap,a 25% price increase isbasically a death note.Demand plummeted in justa year the us importsof automobile trucks fromWest Germany declinedby one third Volkswagen lostnearly 6 million in US sales.By 1971, the bus had prettymuch completely disappeared.But that's not the whole story.Audio tapes from the LBJwhite house later revealedthat he made a handshakedeal with the headof the United Auto Workers Union.The same United Auto Workers Unionthat was threatening to go on strike justbefore the 1964 election,which would've hurtJohnson's reelection chances.And to stop the strike,LBJ secretly offered to put atariff on Volkswagen imports,which had become so commonand so popular that they were nearly,single handedly killing union auto jobswhich can only mean one thing.LBJ killed the hippie van man,it's all conspiracy, man.I mean think about it, man.JFK, three letters all right.LBJ, three letters.All right now van, three letters,but only one survived, man.After the whole chicken tax fiasco,VW bus sales slowed but theydidn't completely dry up.Enthusiast interest kept the dream alive.And in 1979, the T3 debuted.This gen is very angular,which fit in with all thewedge that defined that era.This was the first genwhich saw luxuries like,power steering and air conditioning.They also ditched theair cold engine in 1983for a more modern liquid cooled engine.In 1990 VW debuted the T4,which was way more mainstream than anyof the previous generationsin terms of its styling and mechanics.It was the first front engine bus,ending a 40 year run ofrear engine configurations.The styling was more conventionalthan any other generation.Taking fashion tips from theup and coming minivan marketthat was taken America by storm.I actually really want one of these.It looks like a murder vanand you can get it with aVR six which is a beautiful,2.8 liter narrow angle V six.(engine purring)Revolutionary motor, I love it.And also had 10 times the amount of powerthat the original bus makes.T-five and T-six arebasically just vans dude.We don't need to spend thatmuch time on 'em they're cool.It's a Volkswagen van but it's a van.These days, bus collectorsclassify the type two'sby generation and by the numberof windows that they have.Standard models are equippedwith only 11 windows,deluxe versions have 15windows and the SOMBA has 23.The more windows you got,the more valuable your bus isthat's just bus math, baby.I didn't make it up.And like I mentioned beforethe bus is a cult hit among off roaders,for many of the same reasonspeople love Volkswagen,Dune buggies, they offer a great view,simple mechanics andhigh ground clearance.The buses even inspired eventslike the Shasta snow trip,the crawl from the bottomof Mendocino national forestto the city of Mount Shasta over someof California's gnarliest dirt roads.Now, sadly in 2013,Volkswagen announced thatits Brazilian factorywould stop producing a van fashionedafter the original kombiending 78 consecutive yearsof rear engine Volkswagen vehicles.Luckily for you van heads out there,after years of teasing us with concepts,Volkswagen is bringing the bus back.An electric form later on 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