Topic: North America's only VW Museum?

A local enthusiast decided to go big time recently, and moved his massive collection of VW stuff into a commercial venue, obtained VW authorization and opened "Funbugz". 

Funbugz is heralding itself as North America's only VW sanctioned museum (anybody know of any others?), and seems to be off to a good start.  If you're ever out to Vancouver Island, it's worth the trip to Coombs (about 2 hours north of Victoria) to check out the assorted shops and (of course) Funbugz.

They have a website here:  http://www.vw-museum.com/index.html

I went there with my family a couple weeks ago, and enjoyed looking through the assorted items - a few cars, some parts ranging from "oh I've got that" to "well, you don't see one of those everyday" and a wide array of collectible scale models and literature.

One thing that knocked me for a bit of a loop was seeing my family name on the original owners manual for a 1974 La Grande Bug, along with the imprinted plastic card they used to provide.  Our name is not common, and I didn't recognize the individual's name until I talked to my folks and found out who he was.  Thought that was pretty neat.

1979 Type 1 Convertible                                       1976 Scirocco (For Sale!)
1971 Type 1 Semi-Automatic Super                       1968 Type 1 Sedan
1961 Type 1 Sedan
1957 Type 1 Sunroof

Re: North America's only VW Museum?

Cool, and only 2,513 miles away!  lol

I'll have to remember to stop in when I visit the left coast, thanks for the info.

Paul

Re: North America's only VW Museum?

Should make for a nice Sunday drive ;-)

Give me a holler if you do make it out though.

1979 Type 1 Convertible                                       1976 Scirocco (For Sale!)
1971 Type 1 Semi-Automatic Super                       1968 Type 1 Sedan
1961 Type 1 Sedan
1957 Type 1 Sunroof

Re: North America's only VW Museum?

Der Bugmeister wrote:

Should make for a nice Sunday drive ;-)

Give me a holler if you do make it out though.

Oh, I will! I always wanted to drive the Ghia in the mountains. The ferry scares me though... I have visions of it tipping or the car rolling off into the water.

Paul