Aside from not having power steering, the van also has no air conditioning.  To me this is not a big deal. I’m more of a “60 mph and windows down” type of guy.  Unlike other cars, vans, trucks and SUV’s that have the AC in the dash, my vanagon had a huge AC unit mounted to the celling.

The previous owners told me that the unit just needed to be recharged, but upon further inspection I found a whole other problem… it was missing the front assembly. Since the unit was missing the entire front set of vents and parts of the motor, I removed it creating  more head room which gave a more open feel.  Now there is nothing to bang your head on trying to navigate from the front to back or vise versa.