That’s it. Same color, even. Not quite as nice, however. 
No plans on making it run. Figured I’d flip it down the road. Let someone else have fun with it.
This is disappointing! We were expecting a big thread on your progress restoring it! And several here were going to offer advice…
I can tell you dog stories.
I had a '69 camper back in college. It didn’t even have a gas tank to absorb any impacts, just a spare tire. And you’re sitting right above the front wheel; takes a while to learn how to maneuver it in a parking lot.
If you count the wing windows and the sliding portions of the driver and passenger windows, there are 27 pieces of glass. They don’t make 'em like that anymore.
In Colorado, you cannot register your car without the title.
Well first the OP might find the VIN
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=where+is+vin+on+1969++vw+microbus
And then do a national VIN search
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=vin+++++++title+search
Well, I know who owned it. He’s dead now. I know where a title might be, just won’t get the chance to search for it. It might turn up from someone else’s searching. But I’m not too worried about it.
It seems to me that if you want to flip it, getting the title could raise the value significantly.
Do NOT run over tumbleweeds in your new bus!!
No worries. Pretty far from running over anything.
Tell me : is the winshield a split?
Nope.
To clarify: the different VW Bus models are numbered in Germany by the names of T1 (the first model), T2, T3 and so on. According to @74westy’s link and @Gatopescado’s confirmation, we’re talking about a T2. Only the T1, like in the link @Pardel-Lux posted, had a split front window. It was also the only model that had the “Samba” variety with the additional panoramic windows. It’s a beautiful car.
ETA: it’s a pity my best friend doesn’t post here. He’s an expert hobbyist for VW Beetles and Buses and currently owns a 1972 1302 Beetle he has had for 35 years and a VW Bus model T3 that’s about 40 years old. He knows a lot about this stuff.
BTW, Samba-Bus sounds like it was a funny Brasilian hippy dance bus, but it probably (only probably, because nobody seems to really know) is an acronym for either “Sonnendach-Ausführung mit besonderem Armaturenbrett” or “Sonder-Ausführung mit besonderer Ausstattung”, that is either “sunroof version with special dashboard” or “special version with special equipment”. Or so the legend goes.
I asked him, gave him the basic information about the Bus and sent him the link for this thread, but he answered that there is too little information, no photos and no details about the particular model to make an assessment. And the US market anyway is different than the German: here with winters and salt on the streets and rain in all seasons, enthusiasts would give a lot for a rust-free 1969 VW Bus even without engine and transition (those parts are easily still found here), but for a US desert region that’s commonplace.
That’s what I figured.
Mine was a '63. I miss it every day.
Dude: if you’re going to do anything on that bus, make with the Personal Protective Equipment in a big way:
No bueno.
Good luck with the flip!
Yeah, it was being used as a storage unit for mostly paper records and crap (half a ton of garbage) for the last 20 years or so. It’s empty now, but there is some serious evidence of Mouse Activity.
It’s unseasonably cool and humid here right now (almost 12% yesterday!). When it gets back to hot and dry, I figure I’ll take a hose to it and see how well it cleans up. It’ll dry in minutes. No fear of rusting. Hell, it’s so dry here, not even my Fiat will rust!
About 30 years ago, somebody offered me a VW microbus for the price of $0; it ran, but the 1st gear, maybe also the reverse gear, didn’t work. I declined because I did not want to fix it up. Today I would probably go for it.
You can apply for a Lost Title. Since you know who it last belonged to and hopefully know which state it was last registered in, and you can find the VIN, you can contact the state DMV (Dept of Motor Vehicles or whatever it is called in your state). Contact them and ask what all is involved. It isn’t like you are the first person who has a car and no title. You can probably find the form on your state DMV web site, I just checked Oregon and they have the lost title form on line.
I pulled an old oval window VW bug out of some blackberry bushes that it had sat in for years. I knew the owner and that it was last registered in California, so I wrote to them. I got back a nice letter saying something to the effect of “the State of Calif has no interest in this car, hasn’t been registered in X number of years, has no liens, and isn’t stolen as far as we can tell.” I never did follow through with the lost title but there is a form at the Oregon DMV. With that letter and filling out the form I think I could have got a lost title.
As for power, I once bought a 1835cc rebuilt crate engine and put it in another bug. Dual 30mm Dellorto carburetors, man that thing was scary fast. The pistons and cylinders can be swapped out. There are still a lot of VW engines in use today for dune buggies, desert racers, ATVs. There is a whole after market industry devoted to them.