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VW Bus Flower-Power (1964) — Cover

About VW Bus Flower-Power (1964)

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

Origin
Wolfsburg & Hanover, West Germany; adopted along the California and Baja coast
Era
1950–1967 split-window era, anchored on 1964 (pre-Bay-window)
Key figures
Ben Pon · Heinz Nordhoff · Ivan Hirst · Peter Max · Milton Glaser
Movements
Postwar German utility design · Streamline roundness · 1960s counterculture · van-life road-trip

VW Bus Flower-Power (1964) design spec

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RowdiesHeadings
NunitoBody
CaveatMono
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