Ken Davison's dad first bought this VW bus in 1974. It's been in Davison's family ever since and has left him and his wife stranded on the side of the road many times. He hopes to get it back on the road this week.
Ken Davison, 59, of London, Ont., remembers his dad handing him the keys to the Westfalia, saying it was now his to drive. He was just a teenager.
"I parked it with the promise of rebuilding it some day," he said. "So it's just followed me around for all those years. So about nine years ago, it was decided it was time to get on with it." "The best way to rebuild a vehicle in this kind of bad, rusty shape is to actually put it on something called a rotisserie and turn it on its side or use a hoist," said Davison, who has stored the van in a temporary carport beside his Old North home for years. "I had neither of those options. So I have spent many hours on my back underneath sandblasting and painting.
"Probably the best memory was that my dad and I would go up to Mosport Speedway and spend the weekends in the van watching the car races," he recalled.Davison rebuilt the engine from a kit, but soldered it all himself and modified it to 2,500 cc, up from 1,600 cc. Jacquie also named the bus The Mistress, he said. "Time consuming, expensive, have to sneak away to be with her," said Davison with a smile.
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