A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Walter: The World’s Largest VW Microbus. Today I bring you the opposite: the smallest Type 2 Microbus!
This pint-sized VeeDub has had its mid-section chopped out, which leaves it with an extremely short wheelbase. It’s like a big go-kart for hippies!
Is it better to be a big fish in a small pond? Kirk Strawn would say so. He’s the man behind Walter the Bus, a 2:1 scale reconstruction of the classic Volkswagen Microbus. This one-of-a-kind vehicle is the largest known Microbus in the world, and that’s no small feat.
So how do you go about building a super-size version of one of Volkswagen’s most iconic vehicles? Kirk and his friends (known collectively as “Tribe Walter”) spent seven years on the project. They started with a 1963 Walter Crash Truck which was originally in service as an airport rescue vehicle at Luke Air Force Base in Phoenix, Arizona.
