Patina

a little project for Mr. McHale to do some father-son-bonding?

Looking at the state of this hull, might as well be a grandfather-father-son-bonding. By the time they would ever finnish this, Kevin would have to be high on Viagra even to be able to lift his arms.

And I bet Long Tall Eddy von der S. will never ever need Viagra. Maybe a few valiums if he gets to see this picture. But if he runs he might not be too late to save this Samba. Though one thing is true, if he would let his complete collection be pressed, he would finally have some space in his lair to add more busses. Cubes are easier to store!

Winter

Too bad you will never see such a lovely sights here in Belgium. Even when enough snow would fall, people hate it enough to dump bucketloads of salt on it. That they kill of their beloved a overpayed cars in the process they all seem to forget. Or is it just a small price to pay for safety? I don't think so, they should ban salt to the sea and the "frietjes"

Spring is coming soon

Aaaah, only a few months to go before bugtour 5. Without a doubt the nicest navigational rally through the Flanders and more. And it's not just because it's my club, Die Volks Freunde, that organises it. If you don't believe me, ask around, but don't wait too long to subscribe as startingnumbers are limited. Go look on the bugtour website.

Nanana-naaah nana-naaah-na

Another blog linking up to mine, Donder's. And if possible he's even slower on updating than me, but at least he's working on his car instead. Unlike me, waisting my time surfing around the turd tidal trap.

A fine car it will be, nicest model ever to start with so it can't go wrong, but some loving care has been added to the equation and will tip the scales even more into coolness.

What do you think might have happened?

OK, time for a little quiz, tell me your version on this terrible accident. How big was the damage, how many dead how many wounded (and dying). Did they scrap the cars.
Make it up soon or I will. And it will not be nice!

Triple Pink

Even though my garage is pouring out with crap, I can't help looking at Blocket in search for the finer examples is metalfab and engineering. This add proves again you can do strange stuff to you car in Sverige without being knee-capped with a crankshaft.

Sin number one would be painting your car pink. We all know this means a slow death for any car and painting it flat black will never hide you own a sissy's car.
But on top of that look at all the other capital sins, terrible pickis conversion (obvious), colour-coded and molded-in sidesteps, a boxmetal angular roll-bar (undoubtably tied in to nothingness).
On a brighter note I would like to point out how a nutty proffesor forced some extra air into the engine using computer cooling fans, sheer genius. Or does this just prove he's a nerd?

At the strip

To most of you this will not interest you much, but to me such a vessel is a beautifull feat of craftsmanship.

Some of you might know of my wild plans to build my own boat, flat4-powered. But although I love this example, mine has to be built for dragracing or at least look like it. I already have some hardware laying around : a v-drive transmission (essential for a drag-boat), an engine to strip for it's case (this one will also give its 010 distributor for an oldspeed engine for my bubbla), a pumps flywheel housing to couple trans and engine and a pair of simca seats to strip and rebuild (and if it works, I'll build a couple for my oldspeed car as well). I also have a threespoke petri wheel that wont fit a car, but that I can use for the boat.

I even have a name for the boat, but I'll keep that one a secret.

You see I have almost all I need, except time ...

Crappy pieces of shit

That is what 4-elevens are. Or at least mine is. This black one looks fine though.

Mine is baby-blue, Finnish, and had a crappy engine to start with. I started driving it to Bitburg but gave up before Brussels. In the evening, on the way back I blew the engine. I was just able to make it onto a gasstations parkinglot, leaving some liters of oil as a trace. In the meantime I swapped engines with a nice reconditioned Type 4 (or at least that's what I would like to think) but I'm now having issues with the clutch. So I still hate the car.

But once it will run, it will run hard, that I'm sure of. And than I will love the car, the classic.

The holy grail for Type III

Just recently I scored this very rary Tacho for an early type 3. By coincidence I saw it advertised as a "VDO for a vw of some sort". Little did the seller know he was about to loose a few hundred euro, because I paid no more than 25 euro for this nice piece of accesory.

Too bad I don't a own a Type three myself. But luckily my girlfriend does! This will make for a great new years gift, don't you think.

Unbeloved

Tied to a tree as an unwanted hound. This is what the Swedes do to their bubblas when they leave Sverige for the Christmas holidays, flying of to the hot south.

Custom Buss

And just to prove that I do as I say, my first VW post in a very long time, it's even Svandinavian.

How about this custom splitbuss. I love it to bits, with the fat hips and everything. I think it looks very potent but don't know if it has the goods to back up the looks. I know I have!

10 Large

I thought I'd never see the day where I would reach the 5 digits. Do I have to post a naked lady now?

What I promissed myself to do though is to start posting at least every other day or so, It's been too long since this blog has been active. But then you have to check regularly, makes it more fun for me.