Airhead Parts

12/12/2025

Reposting because the Facebook generated previews had some wrong info *eye roll*

11/26/2025

Here's a few from Treffen 2011, which would be #13. The graphic says, "Vintage VW Event on the California Coast", though we actually started in Portland, OR, the morning after the Rose City Bug In. We spent the first night in Crescent City, CA, at the Curly Redwood Lodge, where I've stayed every year since.

We ended in Ventura with our annual VW show in the local harbor, which we eventually outgrew before moving to Channel Islands Harbor in 2015.

You can tell in the pics, we probably had a dozen of so people on a busy day back then :)

It made things like eating together and camping super manageable. "Can we all just sit on the patio together"? Just a few years later, I'd have 75 cars at breakfast in Coos Bay, Oregon & that's a whole other thing for sure.

Does anybody still have this shirt? I made 144 of 'em. I have a few stickers left, but I don't think I have a shirt myself!

11/26/2025

Found an old thumb drive with some cool Airhead Parts Treffen photos and graphics on it. This Treffen #16 in 2014, cruising on U.S. 101, south of Crescent City.

07/23/2025

06/08/2025

JUNKYARD IS OPEN TODAY!
Sunday 6/8 and Monday 6/9

355 Harriet St
Ventura, cA 93001

05/14/2025

We're adding two days to the sale!

We're going to be open the Friday and Saturday before the VW Revival show (more info: https://www.bugin.com) so folks making their way to San Juan Capistrano from north of here can make a quick stop and check it out. We're just a mile off the 101.

Already have a swap spot reserved at the show? Stop here and stock up!

05/13/2025

***May 30 & 31 (Fri & Sat before VW Revival)
9am-6pm***

June 2, 3 & 4
8am-2pm
Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday

***We added the Friday and Saturday before the VW Revival show in San Juan Capistrano (bugin.com), stop by on your way to the show! We're just a mile off 101 in Ventura.***

We’ve been sorting through the yard for weeks now and we’re making good progress.

We aren’t really prepped to take individual parts requests at this stage, there’s still whole sections of the yard left to sort, “bumpers all go over there near the red containers, all taillight housing go in the bins along the fence until they’re full…”

We've uncovered tons and tons of restorable cores of all types so far, from generators and starters to window regulators and door latches. Mountains of door handles of all types, sometimes even with keys attached. There’s steering columns and front beams and stub axles and distributor drives in massive quantities. Various doors and hatches and their respective latches of every type. Tons of glass (literally), original road wheels and all kinds of wiper assemblies. Fresh air boxes and related elbows and connectors. Original oil bath air cleaners of every type. Shelves full of radios, gauges and good used fuel tanks.

Please come and take a look yourself! We scheduled the sale right between the VW Revival and the Blackstar Campout, hoping to see as many people as possible from all over the VW world. Ventura is a great place to visit, and while you’re here, maybe buy a few dozen Vanagon trailing arms as a souvenir!

email info@airheadparts

04/25/2025

***We're adding May 30 & 31st, the Friday and Saturday before the VW Revival-- come see us on your way there!***

We’ve been sorting through our parts/junk yard for the last few weeks & we’ve uncovered stuff we haven’t been able to access in over 10 years!

We’ve been taking almost daily runs to the scrap yard, mostly rusted hulks and (truly) misc metal, old racking, tons (literally) of old brake drums and disks, some old tooling, just piles of crazy stuff you accumulate when you have a 35 year old yard filled with stuff from other people’s 50 year old yards.

Well, the local powers that be have been “encouraging” us to clean it out, and we’re ready to oblige.

Come on out May 30 & 31 and June 2, 3 & 4 & bring a big truck! Everything has to go at rock bottom re-seller friendly prices. More info as we make more progress…

355 Harriet St. Ventura, CA 93001

***Edited May 15th

11/04/2024

Is it that time already???

08/29/2024

NEW at Airhead Parts-- We just got our Westfalia Sliding Door Handles in stock, they're an exact reproduction of the originals!

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06/25/2024

Hi everybody,

I thought I could pull it off this year, but I just didn’t have the time to plan things out properly. Our general manager of 28 years, Dave L., left in February, so I've been covering operations here since. I also spent all of March and April (like, every waking minute) moving the whole business back to our original location, just 2 miles away. We've been in the new (old?) warehouse for about two months now, but we’re still getting settled.

I never officially cancelled this year’s Treffen #26 because I really wanted to make it happen, but on top of having zero time to make plans, I just can't get away for 2 1/2 weeks this summer. I have no backup here at the shop now that Dave's gone and Scott is out doing the semi-retired sailing to faraway lands thing. Heck, I went to Italy for two weeks at the end of April and it feels like I’m still playing catch-up!

There were some other factors in the mix as well, the biggest one being that we really thought our downtown here in Ventura would be re-opened this year. We used to have a giant Treffen car show there, but it has been closed since Covid. Ever since the closure, it’s been a real pain planning things on this end of the route, especially with the local VW club losing access to the Girl Scout camp. With everything going on here at the shop, I just didn’t have the time to completely re-invent the last 4 days of the trip, nor did I want to repeat what we did last year, up at Lake 105 Degrees (I gave the lake a new name).

I think we’ll have downtown open again for next year, and the good thing about our new warehouse location is that once we get things under control here (we need to thin out a sprawling junk yard), we’ll have room for 50 buses to camp right here at Airhead Parts. We’ve got a shower and bathrooms and we’re about 1/4 mile from the beach, which makes it 75 degrees instead of 105 up the road at the lake. Back when we had Karmann Ghia only car shows here, we’d get 70+ inside the fence.

So yeah, regretfully, there is no 2024 Airhead Parts Border to Border Treffen. We had to cancel 2020 as well, so it’s not completely unheard of, nor is it the end of Treffen or the end of Airhead Parts or any of the other funny stories that make it my way— I can just imagine the ones I don’t hear!

Now some good news is that some of the regulars are putting together their own camping road trip this year, and I can most probably get away for a couple of days to come say hello to everyone… I think :)

Till we cruise again,
—Andre

p.s. just throwing it out there, but I’m thinking about ending in Ventura next year. Port Angeles to Ventura, with a big car show here at the end— looking for more of a big celebration vibe at the finish, versus a small gathering of the brave few who had the fortitude to go that last 4 hours/190 miles to San Diego, lol. You know, a party the scaredy cats will attend ;)

Maybe swap the 3 country flags out for Washington, Oregon and California flags, and change “Border to Border” to “West Coast Treffen” or something along those lines.

12/12/2023

Now thru midnight Dec 21!

Take 10% off your cart total over $149.00 with sale code: 10D23

Take 15% off your cart total over $299.00 with sale code: 15D23

We've got a ton of parts on sale, up to 30% Off already. These codes will take an ADDITIONAL 10-15% off the order total!

Online only. Now thru midnight Dec 31. In stock items only, while supplies last!

Airhead VW Parts is the leading supplier of vintage VW and Volkswagen auto parts, including hard-to-find parts for VW Bugs, Busses, Vanagons, and Karmann Ghias.