Wagenswest was started around 2001, after selling a narrowed VW bus beam, I made, to pay my rent. I am Nate, Born In Long Beach CA, I grew up around the custom hot rod and metal shaping culture of Southern California, My father Big Dan Curtis, was an old school car and bike builder, he practiced his craft around people like Big Daddy Roth. At Age 11 I swept floors at ESE, and Ed Roth would show up in his pin striped Honda Civic, with a big gnarly, full size rat fink in the passenger seat. No joke and no surprise, this kind of creativity really made a big impression. Air cooled VW’s were all the rage back then, And buses were under rated and somewhat cheap. Making them available, to be modified. So we Slam Slam Slam Lift Lift Lift, Rinse & Repeat. And a quarter century later, we make all these parts.
