About this site

What you are reading is a declaration of intent, or of intention of intent.

My name is Xavier Cervera and I was born in Mataró, a town near Barcelona, Catalonia, in 1978. I started with vintage vehicles some years ago, when we were searching for a daily driver to move up and down in the city. We came across a black Lambretta and immediately felt in love. After that came an Authi Morris 1100, a VW Baywindow and a Vespa 150 Sport and a 1963 Lambretta 150 Li and a Bultaco 155. In January 2007 we purchased a 1967 Splitwindow Westfalia SO-42.

With the Baywindow period I discovered the aircooled movement and started to read literature and manuals about VW’s. I’m not an expert, of course, but I can defend me. The Baywindow wasn’t enough because my dream was to own a Split bus, concretely I wanted an OG Westfalia camper. So were not many options… SO-23 and SO-34 are great, but they are rare and, of course, expensive. So we decided for a SO-42.

After looking for some info on the net I realised that there are no sites exclusively dedicated to the SO-42 model. So here I am, writing about what I called ‘the most ever copied camper all around’ or ‘the predecessor of today’s camper’.

Adriana and Xavier