There is a long and colorful story behind the B.U.S.
A few years ago I took my wife and grandson camping at the "Dead of Winter" campout in, as the name says, the dead of winter. We tried to make a bed in Homer (in his pre-SuperBus days) but found the floor had enough square footage to hold us, but, it was just that "square" footage. After somehow surviving the 20 degree night on the floor of the bus, I decided I needed to install a camper package. It just so happened that a former Volks Folks member dropped by the campout and told me he had an engineless Westy he would let go pretty cheap. So, as soon as I scraped up a little cash, I bought it. Once I got it home, I pulled the bed and cabinets out of it and installed them in Homer. I gave the tranny to a friend who was building a rail buggy (it wouldn't stay in 4th gear . . . he said he wouldn't need a 4th gear anyway). So now I had an old Westy shell sitting in my yard. Bug-A-Paluza 4 was coming up, so to get it out of the yard, I donated it to be used in place of our "paint-a-bug." After BP-4, I somehow talked another club member, Kyle, into dragging it to his house till I could figure out what to do with it.
With Bug-A-Paluza 5 coming up, the subject of a lack of shower facilities at Camp Jordan came up at one of our planning meetings. As a joke, I said something to the effect of "maybe we could install a shower in that Westy shell I've got over at your place Kyle." DO NOT say something like that as a joke around Kyle. He will take it as a challenge and do it. Well, that's pretty much what happened. The B.U.S. made it's debute at BP-5 but the made in Brazil, heat-as-you-go shower head we bought off the internet had some problems. In the end, I think I was the only person who actually used it . . . and I took a COLD shower.
Well, one of volunteer judges that year was a plumber by trade and saw some potential in what Kyle had created. He took the bus and installed some real plumbing including a real 40 or 50 gallon quick recovery hot water heater strapped in where the passenger seat used to sit. We picked it up from his house and did a little more work on the interior and has been a hugh hit at every show since then.
Once you're in, you can lock the doors, so it won't get opened up on you. When it's set up, the top is up and opened to the outside . . . but unless you're REALLY tall, the shower curtain has you fully hid from view.
A few months ago, the story took another twist when Smelly Cat (of the now infamous "Help with a slow starter" thread in our tech questions forum) recognized a picture of the Paint-A-Bus from Bug-A-Paluza 4 as the Westy he used to own. He would have never recognized it as the B.U.S.
By the way, this is another example of why you got to watch what you say around Kyle. One day someone said "I bet if you cut two Vanagons in half, duct tape would be strong enough to hold them together." . . .
