The Oldest VW Bus in the USA: 1950 Radium Bus (Hot VWs Magazine April 2022 Cover Car)

The vw bus had more horsepower

Damn that thing's a work of art..

For whoever did the restoration work that was a LOT of work to make correct. AMAZING

No rear window and tiny little mirrors, crash box trans and 25hp engine.....Gotta be a pleasure to drive.

This is a thing of beauty!

Absolutely stunning bus!

What a beauty. Wonderful save

Watching from the UK, love it ! So good to see such an early bus saved.

WOW GOOD ONE ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Watching from Istanbul, Turkey. Big fan of Ed Hughes's buses. Great to listen all that little details and precious know how. Thanks for sharing.

So cool! It's nice to see this guy actually driving it too, rather than just letting it sit in a garage. Nice video!

Edit: Does he know his rear tail lights aren't working? around the :20 mark

Amazing Car! 👍✌️

Sure was cool seeing this bus on the cover of Hot Vw's this month! But a video of it with the owner is the cherry on top! Thanks!!!

WOW! She is beautiful! Totally mint.

Crashbox is singing alone....

It has a total crash box trans . It must be worth a lot of bucks .

Thanks Eddy

OMG...what a beautiful Bus!!! Thanks for sharing!

Taking cool to a new level.

I’ve driven a barn door and it’s a totally different experience to driving a regular split bus. Awesome bus , bravo!

Listings to the split case trans German engineering at it finest nice barn door

Whoever block sanded that gorgeous bus…great job!! Love the sound of that crashbox!!!

great video. color of the logos i perfect.

Imagine how big the emblem would be

Nice video. Great bus

My June of '58 bus is the oldest farthest North splitty in the world. Drive her year-round down to -10F. Buses are great!

Just Incredible restoration!! Well done sir!!

Friends came to tasmania with a 50-51 model crammed with possessions from Germany, it didn't last that long , it was cut up vw wasn't imported till 54 in Australia

Schön Auto!

Saw this bad boy at the OCTO, its awesome.

Great video " excellent job on restoration and history of this work of art VW Bus . When I was a kid my dad had a 1966 VW Bus at the same time he had a 67 Chevy Corvair convertible . Keep the video's coming .

This is just Beautiful. I don’t know weather to cry smile be jealous lol. But man this is amazing. Thanks for showing us this. History

That is gorgeous! I have a 1960 double door panel bus l purchased in Albuquerque from its original owner. He ran a television repair shop in town way back when. This bus is very original, having its original engine and transmission (numbers matching). It even still sits on the same set of tubed Continental tires it left the factory on! Being a southwest vehicle, it has no rust on it at all, and was running when l parked it in a metal pole barn in 1998. I might just have to bring her back out after seeing this story!

Where's the back bumper? The last thing you would wantna happen is to have somebody real in you...

Holy sheep s*** I got to get my 53 single cab on the road oh my effing God old Eddie Hughes I knew that guy back in '87

Radium was part of the whole free energy trip they had stoves that were called radium stoves and somehow they were like a self perpetuating free energy out of The Ether something that we've hardly fallen from and now we got to pay the power companies what an effing joke

I could watch this all day!! Such a clean job, top to bottom! Ahhhhhh!

VW❤🇩🇰😉

Opa blz komb muita linda bacana tenho uma 1967 também valeu

August of 1950, wouldn't that be a 1951? I have a 1968 which has an August 1967 manufacture date.

ED!!! 5🔥 💪

I think it's awesome you put a Pete Jackson gear drive in it.

Great job on the car. I really enjoyed all the details .. Too bad that ( due to new standards ) the paintjob became too “ fat” it’s should have been a bit more rough and matte.

Furgão maravilhoso.
Parabéns!
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I hope you are double-clutching.

Amazing piece of History! Thank you Sir!