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VW Bus Flower-Power (1964)

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The flower-power Volkswagen Type 2 microbus, circa 1964: the split-window "Splitty" with its pressed-steel curves, a chrome V emblem on the nose, and a two-tone body where a white belt rides over a sun-faded pastel panel. Where the factory left it clean, the counterculture painted it — daisy decals, marigold suns, and hot-pink blooms cut by hand and pressed across the sliding door. This is road-trip pastel, not acid neon: chalky, satiny, sun-bleached color for a bus parked at a coastal overlook. Rounded steel, chrome hairlines, horizontal color bands, and stickers that feel peeled and set by hand. The whole thing says pack the cooler, stick a daisy on the door, and drive until the pavement runs out.

Learn more about the VW Bus Flower-Power (1964) style

  • OriginWolfsburg & Hanover, West Germany; adopted along the California and Baja coast
  • Period1950–1967 split-window era, anchored on 1964 (pre-Bay-window)
  • DesignerBen Pon · Heinz Nordhoff · Ivan Hirst · Peter Max · Milton Glaser
  • MovementsPostwar German utility design · Streamline roundness · 1960s counterculture · van-life road-trip

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