Help me buy Volkswagen bus

Question

My friends and I are going roadtripping for our senior summer. We want to buy a Volkswagen Type II Bus, but want to know as much as we can before me buy. We live in Colorado and want to buy as local as possible and as cheap as possible because we'll probably paint the bus as we go then auction it off for one of our charity groups.

We don't care about the type of transmission, but want air conditioning, room for 8 people and camping gear.

What's the mileage like? Should we buy one with a more powerful engine? Questions like that.

If you know anything about the VW bus, please help and tell us :)

Answer 1

You should start by caring about some things.  A VW bus will struggle with 8 adult sized people riding in it.  It won't do air conditioning very well unless you have a really new model.  The air conditioning in the old models had a hard time of it, they could barely pull the motors.  The bus is not a car to be driving on the interstate, it can't get up to speed and maintain 80mph like the modern cars and its also dangerous.  As far as mileage, it'll get decent mileage if the engine is ok.  One or two people in the group need to know the engine in and outs since its a finicky machine.

Answer 2

Not to be rude, but your really dreaming here.