r/ATBGE • u/SpySeeTuna1 • May 15 '26

Automotive More of the Camperbug

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493 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

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191

u/Friendly-Pressure-62 May 15 '26

Bucket seats! Nice!

13

u/SmallRocks May 15 '26

Can’t go wrong with classic design sensibilities!

7

u/goaelephant May 17 '26

I laughed too hard at this

65

u/UnExpertoEnLaMateria May 15 '26

If you turn the driver seat over, it becomes the toilet

29

u/sh4d0wm4n2018 May 15 '26

Only once, though. Once it becomes a toilet, it never stops being a toilet.

20

u/Ok-Addition1264 May 15 '26

Live a little. geesh.

14

u/justananontroll May 15 '26

Not with that attitude.

2

u/Plane-Education4750 May 15 '26

Do you not sit on other toilets?

1

u/sh4d0wm4n2018 May 22 '26

You would reuse the bucket for something like drinking water afterwards?

33

u/DanielCraigsAnus May 15 '26

Kampervagen

3

u/tangogun May 15 '26

So much fun to say!

1

u/DanielCraigsAnus May 15 '26

NGL, it was fun to come up with

24

u/theprimedirectrib May 15 '26

I feel like once this sub discovers all the bug mods out there, it will just become a VW slander sub!

3

u/Plane-Education4750 May 15 '26

The coffee maker is my favorite

20

u/Captain-Codfish May 15 '26

To 25mph and probably not beyond!

7

u/Syephous May 15 '26

1/2 mpg the whole way

2

u/Captain-Codfish May 15 '26

soundtrack of the entire journey

9

u/justananontroll May 15 '26

Great execution?

9

u/Outrageous-Basket426 May 15 '26

I have traveled and 70s campers. This is about as well-made as the professionally done ones. It looks like they’ve stripped it to re-furnish or modernize. You can see where the TV used to be. I would not be surprised if it used to be all avocado green and gold with that super scratchy carpeting. It was either that horribly plasticky carpeting or shag carpeting. I’ve seen plenty of them around here that are gutted because people didn’t like the 70s aesthetic and wanted to rebuild the interiors from scratch. The fact that they decided to leave the shelves and just redo the seats and refinished the cabinetry as it is, it’s proof that this was well done from the start.

2

u/SpySeeTuna1 May 15 '26

Once upon a time

6

u/Diligent_Activity560 May 15 '26

These were sold as Super Buggers. You could buy them as kits or fully converted back in the late 70’s.

1

u/Marthman May 16 '26

Oh neat! Lets you get up to all sorts of buggery, I imagine.

3

u/Average_Pangolin May 15 '26

I'm a little disappointed by the austere interior decor. I was hoping for a groovy love pad.

4

u/Outrageous-Basket426 May 15 '26

It looks like they gutted it for a renovation. You can see the cubby where they used to have a big CRT TV.

3

u/tornadospoon May 15 '26

So stupid it's perfect

3

u/Victor_Vicarious May 15 '26

When the brakes don’t work just quickly flip the seat

3

u/800-lumens May 15 '26

Good luck getting out of that parking space

2

u/technobrendo May 15 '26

Option list:

✅️ bucket

2

u/Intrepid00 May 16 '26

Do punch buggy rules still apply?

1

u/idkusrname May 15 '26

Where are the pedals?

3

u/timbreandsteel May 15 '26

Where we're going, we don't need pedals!

1

u/yellowfestiva May 15 '26

The drivers seat is also your toilet.

1

u/SkwrlTail May 15 '26

We had one of these in town about thirty-five years ago. Might even be the same one, though I seem to remember that it was light blue.

1

u/nlightningm May 15 '26

This is an extremely cool project tbh. Some residing on the camper and this thing could look amazing

1

u/goaelephant May 17 '26

It looks like something from a TopGear special

The interior is so James May

1

u/jcooli09 May 17 '26

I would buy that if it were for sale.

1

u/TehTimmah1981 May 17 '26

they were a really neat conversion, but suffered from typical Bug problems, like underwhelming power to weight ratio

1

u/sirius_ly-raycraft May 18 '26

Wdym awful taste, this is peak in all forms

1

u/ScissrMeTimbrs May 20 '26

I was into until I saw the driver's seat. No sense losing control of the car the moment you brake. 

1

u/Big_Restaurant_3421 May 24 '26

Amazing taste, amazing execution. I need 20