Yesterday, I allowed myself to have a little public love-fest with one of my favorite VW-based specials, the Brubaker Box. Happily, it seems that I wasn't alone, as many of you shared my enthusiasm.

The Brubaker Box was ahead of its time. Designed by Curtis Brubaker, the Volkswagen Beetle-derived Box was a minivan by any other name. Unfortunately, it seems few people wanted to actually own a ...

I'm so full of idiosyncratic automotive tastes that I'm probably the automotive-taste equivalent of a pervert. I've come to accept this, and now I delight in sharing my fixations with you. So, with ...

"I love vans," sounds like a really weird thing to say now. But there were many van enthusiasts in the 1970s, especially in California. And one of the big talking points of that era was the Brubaker ...

The Brubaker Box is one of the most iconic surf vans ever made and owes its fame partly to the fact it was built on the popular VW Beetle chassis. Designed by Curtis Brubaker, the Box was made from 13 ...

The Brubaker Box may take surfers to the waves once again, if a pair of California entrepreneurs can make it happen. They’re planning on reproducing the boxy fiberglass vehicle, which briefly went on ...

Welcome to our weekly round-up of the biggest breaking stories on Driving.ca from this past week. Get caught up and ready to get on with the weekend, because it’s hard keeping pace in a digital ...

What has one door, wooden bumpers, an air-cooled engine, and sofalike seating? It was an easy question to answer in the mid-1970s when Brubaker Industries of Los Angeles, California, created the ...