- November 26, 2024
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Over the last weekend, between Friday, April 6 and Sunday, April 8, No Dough made a stop in Port Orange. The Volkswagen enthusiast group, with a following of thousands, travels the country in search of new friends, culture, adventure and cheap thrills.
Many enthusiasts believe the new resurgence of people living in vans stemmed from the popularity of the VW Bus in the '60s.
"The bus culture started in the early '60s with the hippies, modern van life is carrying on from the '60s culture," Kevin Whisenhant said.
Yuri Bart purchased the camp hotel topper for his van from a woman with a station wagon. He says it adds the ability to camp and travel in style with an included solar heated shower.
"Van Life is all about reliving the 60's culture with modern vehicles," Bart said.
Local restraunts also teamed up with No Dough to provide discounted food events for the enthusiasts to embrace their passion of having low-cost adventures.
Kelly Byron and Alice Belusko are two women who travelled with their VW by the name of Olive Oyl. They camp and travel in Olive regularly, often enjoying destinations around Florida.
Rainer Ramos and Manny Ensio spent part of their day checking out the buckets full of miscellaneous VW parts.
"It's so easy to find parts here because all VW's are similar," Rainer said.
Seven years ago, Ryan Lowther purchased his 1964 VW Bus shell in Texas and brought it to his body shop in Crystal River. He dedicated a couple years to completely restoring it to his liking.
"I pimped it all out, I fabricated all the suspension in my shop, I even added a remote to raise and lower the suspension," Lowther said. "It's been my daily driver for five and a half years now, it turns heads wherever I go."
