I remember that. Horribly depressing.
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This was really a very nice commercial for the parts supplier, Serial Kombi. I wouldn’t be surprised if the parts were provided free, or some other creative exchange. It’s also a nice promo for the fairly new VW portal Airmapp.com, which seems to have been around since 2013 and got a site makeover in 2015 from what I can tell. I wonder how their web traffic compares to their Facebook page, or if they need a webpage at all, though I can see from their member’s map they’ve got a surprising number of users scattered all over the world.
The film is just the kind of thing I would have liked to share with my old friend Pa-Wei, with whom I travelled with to Berlin in search of a surplus VW T3 transporter years ago (we came back empty handed, but we really just went for the scenery). Pa-Wei used to drive around Toronto in an old blue Kombi bus, and while he sadly passed away last year, it’s nice to know there are still youthful generations that share a passion for such antiquated technology.
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Or alternatively, you could fake it by taking a new car, and covering it in a rust-effect vinyl wrap:
(yes, featured here a while ago).
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Totally applies to me and my buddies too. Also, we’d have to know a lot more about motors than we do. Also, I don’t really have friends.
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The way I remember them telling it was that the crumple zone consisted of your legs.
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Managed forests are weird.
No midstorey, no birds.
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That Indigenous car culture is dying, sadly. Desert ingenuity doesn’t work on a malfunctioning fuel injection computer. 
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