Low Tide

With its matching camping trailer, this VW Microbus afforded sweeping panoramic views of the passing scenery for the adventurous tourist. Well-known for it’s minimalist advertising campaign, one of it’s famous magazine advertisements featured an image of the VW Transporter on a white background with the following ad copy:

WHAT IS IT?
Glad you asked. It’s a Volkswagen Station Wagon.
Don’t pity the poor thing: it can take it.
It can carry nearly a ton of anything you can afford to buy.
Or 8 people (plus luggage) if you want to get practical about it.
And there’s more than one practical consideration.
It will take you about 24 miles on a gallon of regular gas.
It won’t take any water or anti-freeze at all; the engine is air-cooled. And even though it carries almost twice as much as regular wagons, it takes 4 feet less to park.

What’s in the package?

8 pairs of skis, the complete works of Dickens, 98 lbs of frozen spinach, a hutch used by Grover Cleveland, 80 Hollywood High gym sweaters, a suit of armor, and a full-sized reproduction of the Winged Victory of Samothrace.