Power to the Peoples car

And this is what "Wimme" has been specialising in lately : Oldspeed engines. First he's had to rebuild a Porsche 356 engine. And now his in the process of building a "PiedMoulé", too bad not with a powerboosting Judson. But I bet a Riechert kit will suffice for a slow turtle like Turtle.

Guillermo's Aircooled Services on the move

This would just be the perfect getaround for GAS. Like, a friends car just broke down, no hassle, Guillermo's on the way with his flat-8 tow-truck. That's right, this bus is propelled by two siamesed Bubbla engines. But no, for now he'll have to make do throwing junk in the back of his Girls Berlingo. What a downer.

Sixpack.

And while on the topic of ultrafast VW's, how about this Finnish Variant. Enormous fat rubbers in the back and to cope with those, the wheelarches have been cut. Something tells me this car won't be driven in bad weather anyway. It might be the two stacks of carbs, poking out of what is left of the engineroom. Just count them, all six of them.
And by the way, I love those blue-dots. A pitty they're not streetlegal.

nifty-trifty race-car

Another nice racing car found on some swedish formula Vee forum I can't remember. If you look close you can barely spot the Blue and Yellow. One day I'd love to own a car just like that. If you get lucky you can pick one up cheap, but more often than not expect to pay up, as most automotive history gets more expensive by the day.

Off course if it was cheap, you might just get what you pay for, a piece of crap.

But with the right metalfabrication-skills you can surely turn your worst nightmare into the stuff nice dreams are made off. Yet another Helmut-built.

Hot headed.

Recently a brand new racing-head with impressive flow charts came out of the woods. To be more precise it's one or another Swedish pine forest.

A close up of the JPM. Out of the box these puppies should outflow most of the aftermarket heads, and with some more work the could almost make it to the major league run by Pauter and the likes. It's a Type 1 head, but it will fit your Type 4 as well.

And this is the machinists own car. It's clear what these heads do to your car, let alone your neighbours's.

I spy with my little eye.

While at a yardsale someone spotted something in the back of the lot. He made a quick picture and if you look very close you can see what appears to be a windscreen. Armed with the above picture he went to search info on the Pelican, a Porsche dedicated website. And based on the same picture, someone else got interested and through Mister One he struck a deal with the owner to buy the car.

And this is the risk he took, another nice porsche Speedster has been saved. Well it needs a bit of work, but the price was right I guess. For the whole story and more barnfinds of any brand of car, look on my barn find.

Less than Zero Offset

Only in Sweden! These radically altered rims can give your car the so much coveted tucked front wheels look we couch-racers all crave for. It looks crazy and extremely dangerous, but that's just what we like. I have some fake old 356 rims, an acetylene cutting torch and a welder laying around. They will suit my Hot-Sodd very fine. I should go for it and if Mr. Axle Nut lets me, I think I will.

Start searching high and low

The next big wave in the vw-scene (appart from Hot-Sodds off course) is the T3/T25. Now you can ask yourself, would I want to be seen in such a fugly watercooled breadbox? The answer is : Hell, No !!! But the thing most people don't know is that these buggers could also been bought aircooled, stock from the factory. Now in the world of vanagon, as they are known in the US, there's not much interest in aircoolers, people prefer the high-power wasserboxer, up to 112 horses. Or they choose fuction over fun and buy a sober diesel to go tripping.

All the better for those of us who are initiated into the cult of Brick. As prices for the biggest of the type two breed are not yet skyrocketing like for it's older sisters . You can still buy an ugly duckling for less then 1500 euro, without even having to get out the welder. Expect to see more of them on shows as they can be cool enough to freeze your balls off. Especially in winter.

Accesorise this

There's a topic running on the Meanbugs forum, with pictures of yesteryear, mostly shots of the vw-plant. But one of them really caught my attention. If you're affraid of letting go of the steeringwheel, yet you don't own a sportomatic, why not invest in a steering-column mounted gearshifter? You'll never shift back!

A T3 hauls ass

The Bus Kemperink never built, but they should have. It would be a nice project but it would be blasphemious to cut up a perfectly fine Aircooled T3, now wouldn't it? But according to calculations performed on the heavy-duty servers of my new job, it could be done. Hauling a bug, maybe even a Type Three on the back of a standard Transporter Single Cab. With an extension out the back, the load would be sticking out about 1 metre.

Twins

All the people who know me, know I can keep a secret like it's burried. Only not for long. So, here I am spillling the beans on special request of Guillermo who was the first to say he could supply me with suitable GAS-burners.


I've got the choice of either of these two twins residing in Hannover. Well, twins,... The blue one is a very solid 1600 without any major rustrepairs, a perfect driver, but a bit slow. On the other hand, the red one is a bit tatty and has a wooden floor in the bed (which isn't always a good sign), but is powered by a hefty 2 liter type 4. And to top it of, it has double cargodoors for the under-bed area.

That will be a difficult descision to make in Hannover.

Just a weekend away

As we say in Belgium : "een tip van de sluier...". Dr. Jeckill is planning another crazy trip, but I'm not ready to tell you all about it. It includes some time abroad, not too far but not too close neither. And just maybe the cheap-ass version of these Mag-gic wheels come in the equasion, albeit not in true Porsche pattern.

As I said, it's just a weekend away. But you'll all have to wait for the story to unfold as Dr. Jeckills day time alter ego is stuck working double shifts, mainly thanks to fellow DVF'er Olie, of the doka fame. So the weekend away will have to wait one month or two.

Picture Perfect / Perfect Picture

Something else I borrowed from RZR, a link to some amazingly nice photographs with that wonderfull period-feel. Check out Andreas's work.

Norwegian Vixen

But beautifull things happen every day up north. Do you remember Folke, the Regenstadt Zombie's watchdog? Well on his walk along the local VAG dealers, he met this very nice Valkyrie, who is by no means fat nor blonde. Can you imagine this is your appointed mechanic to give your car the needed service. Only in Norway!

Taking it easy

I really should be updating more often. But there's not much news from the Northern Frontiers, well at least not from my part. I haven't been out to play lately so I haven't got a thing to tell, as I'm in no way interesting by my own means.