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First owner of 1967 Volkswagen van on display at conservatory recalls ride

Few visitors to the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory’s “California Dreamin’ ” exhibit would guess that the cream-and-green VW bus sitting unassumingly in the background has stories of its ...
The New Yorker

The VW Bus Took the Sixties on the Road. Now It’s Getting a Twenty-first-Century Makeover

In 1976, at the tail end of the Ford Administration, hippies no longer hip, Sue Vargo and Molly Mead decided that they wanted to drive to the Florida Keys in a Volkswagen bus. They were best friends, ...