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I was thinking while working on my car, its summer and there are lots of shows, races, club meets, local pub meets, cruise nights etc etc  and lots of us must be taking our aircooled VWs out and enjoying them now summer is here, I know this is cal look lounge but most of us enjoy seeing Aircooled VWs being used and enjoyed as intended so even if its a stocker or vintage performance, whatever let us know about as long as its not a rusty dragging along the ground dangerous piece of sh*t   ;)


So come on tell us where you took your car, if you got pictures even better and if was a non VW meet what other cool stuff was there?

Might as well keep this thread the same as "What did you get in the mail today" etc etc.

Didn't take my Beetle but I went to the Le Mans Classic last weekend. Nice cars all round as usual and the best weather so far this year. Loads of old aircooled Porsches and some nice Bugs, Buses and Ghias.
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Frank

Yep that's the sort of idea I had, thanks for your input, never been so no idea what sort of cars you get there :)

cheers Richie

 I and two friends went to "Drag Nite " in South Carolina for the event. My friend and brother John Toomey ran a personal best with a 6.41 1/8th in his 2050 lb car( 1.20 on video, yellow bug racing dragster) . I unfortunately got too greedy on my tune up and cracked a cylinder . The event was fantastic and we had alot of fun , met some new friends and visited with old ones. Mike McCarthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAm0FW_ux2A

Went down to hempshire  :D in the 1302 a couple of weekends back, picked up a friends formula vee bug

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Mot test station, it's now legal


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Nice that's cool to hear you got it done finally  8)

Cheers mate, it's been a long journey.


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santa pod....

Pic?  ;)

We went to the track of Clastres, France this weekend
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Cool, how was the event?

cheers Richie

I took mine to the local dealer to display in there showroom for a few months, great fun driving it there....

pretty good for us to drive, a bit less for the organisation.
because of the bad weather only a car of 10showed up, this meant we could do a run come back to the start and do a other one directly. We did like 20-25 runs in one afternoom!
track condition was bad due to the rain, but we had fun and where able to go al to the end of the track (1mile) because they didn't closed it in the middle.

Cool Broen,

How did the Type 4 hold up?  ;D

Road tripping in Corsica ::)(http://www.abload.de/img/gupzd.jpg)

very good, was al while since a drove a real hot vw
and almost forget what a smile it brings on your face  ;D

No water?

Yip no water only air

Just looked out the Vert for a run to volksfling tomorrow 😎

That cab is very nice Russell - tell us more!

I drove my Beetle last weekend too. It went up the drive, reversed onto the front garden while I moved some stuff in the garage, then one of the 145s burst so I put it back on the drive to sit for another three years.

Local classic car show today so took the 50 split out, quite a few nice cars there and was a decent turnout for a small local show

Morris 1000s

Escorts

Some other Fords

Few VWs

Vauxhalls

Truimphs including a Spitfire with Ford Zetec running gear

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Few Germans & a Lotus

Couple of bikes we liked, some IDAs and a racecar model ;D

to work. daily in july and august

A bit late with this, but a few weeks ago I took my VW down to Leeds for VW Festival. It was about a 120 mile round trip which had me a bit nervous as the engine had only been in 2 weeks. However it all worked out well, bar a little bit of oil out the breather lines. This turned into a good excuse to fit some stainless steel rocker covers with JIC fittings :).

I came away with 2nd best Air-Cooled at VW Festival.

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We took Jo's westy to Santa pod for euro finals, was a good office/bed for weekend, even more so on Saturday when it rained most of day, oh and we took cabrio as well :D

indeed nice office.

i took the fastback out for a 470km spin this weekend (to DDD14). it didn't went without a hiccup, but the lady did well and brought me home safe  ;D

went to the pod yesterday and ran a pb  :)

DDD in Bitburg for me too, around 500km one way trip. Weekend was a blast and the 3.88 R&P really makes a lot of fun at the autobahn. For next year on the to do list is a radio.
Good to read nicolas that you arrived safe at home, the engine sounded real awfull....

Good to read :) that's some good milage for both of you 8), did you get pics of them there at all? be good to see :)  how was DDD?


cheers Richie

Harv hooked up the trailer and dragged the Ned bug to DDD for the weekend. Saturday had a foggy start which burnt off by 11 and Sunday soon dried out by 10am after some heavy overnight rain.

A great weekend with more than its share of laughter and great company. A special thanks to Mike and Fred and their club for putting on a great show and looking after us.

The track really suited Harvey and Ned with a string of passes on or around his pb followed by a new pb of 11.75 on some slicks that are now truly passed their sell by date.

See you all next year for sure.

i am pulling the engine today and tomorrow it will be on the stand. i was a bit heartbroken because i ran it quite a bit this summer and even MOT was without a problem, so when i first had to change the external cooler and then cope with the rattle i was pissed to say the least. i had all my racing gear with me… but i am glad i just went and was able to take my fastback to DDD, it has been years since i took it.

@felix thanks for your concern, car looked great as always!

@Richie, no pictures from my part, i was too busy holding my beer and burger.  :P

 :o ;D  Hope you didn't choke on it :D

Enjoying the last days of summer.  I went out for a club sandwich lunch.  The great outdoors!  ;D
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Me too.

Wouldn't believe this is Scotland in October?

I took mine to the local VW Dealer... for the opening of their refurbished showroom, nice to share space with the XL1...

Nice!!! :)

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Wish I'd have known, and had the time, would have been worth the trip.

Andrew

Looks fun!

Summer is here and its time to use our VWs again, so took the split out today to Retro show at Santa pod, couple of VWs racing and a diverse selection of cars on show and track,was a good day out 8)

Got to love an old coach or truck, and don't see these Old british homogolation cars much now  :o

Couple of nice sleepers, Renault 5 van with upgraded 5GTturbo running gear and very subtle mk2 escort both appealed to me, the Go cart definitely wasn't subtle!!!

Something different

Some race cars and an quite well known old VW :o ;)

Wow you had spare time

Took my split out for a pre Hessich road test ...... now have a bigger list 😜

In colour

Yesterday we took owens car to beach day Scotland

Parked next to Pete Christie 64 sunroof

Look at that sky, that cant be Scotland surely?  ;D

Still not been to the Retro Show allthough it surely looks good. My kind of cars there.
That coach is a Bedford OB I will tell you (and I would wouldn´t I :-)  )
It was for sale for ages, something like 120k.
But has a very posh interior. Did you look inside?
Nice Hillman Avenger and Datsun Wagon.

I really like the look of this one:

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Thanks for sharing Richie!

-BB-

Me to  :) and think it ran 13s so plenty quick enough to be fun  8)

Yep would appeal to you, no to busy on track either

That coach had a Iveco turbo diesel in it from What Scooter Joe told me and would cruise along at 80mph all day long so really nice thing to have, but not at that money!!! No didn't see inside it

cheers Rihie

Took my 63 to a local show Sunday in Wimborne. Vdub at the pub. First time my son went out in the bug and he loved it. Only went to have a look round but Charlie had other ideas and entered it in the show and shine 😀

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retro show was  a good day out had a laugh and both cars ran great considering the heat.very good event .hope it keeps its relaxed feel  and doesn't get to big as its got a completely different assortment of cars than I've ever seen at pod

As soon as I saw the thread title and that you were the last to respond I thought: "bet its the Pod" and I was right!

To EBI off course with two friends and there cars.

Henk!!!

Henk!!!

Last weekend I took my bug to the "Küstendrive" in northern germany at the river Elbe.

Took mine to school yesterday, much the the amusement of the other staff. Mainly bcause it was rainy all day! Not the most fun experience!

On a similar theme to Neil, I did the school run in the 63 yesterday. Finally having the car at my home address and not stored somewhere else I have already done more miles in July than I did for the whole year last year  ::)

Big engine fitted yet?



And no pictures from either of you? bet 100s of kids took pics with there phones though :D

I have pics, but photobucket have ruined it with their new policy on 3rd party hosting. Any recommendations on another host site?
Lee

That's to tech for me, I just upload them onto here :)

Not yet, Em's mk1 Golf went to its new owner today so been working on that. Six week holiday started so watch this space!

How do you do that?
My 6 year old son knows more than me with an iPad
Lee

http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php/topic,3632.0.html

 :)

Maximum photo size is much bigger now so that makes it easier

Rolled mine out into the winter sun for the first time in 4 years.
A long way to go yet, lots to do still, but it still made me smile.
 :)

To the MOT station for the first time in over 3 years, as it has been off the road.
It passed.
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Nice looking car Jo, I recognise it for some reason? What's the spec?

Thanks Richie

It used to belong to Peter Christie, had fake BRMs on then, he sold it to Kev D and I bought it from him about 5 years ago.

When we got it we swapped it out to Porsche pattern brakes, fitted some drop spindles & a new beam as it was not good, then fitted koni red shocks all round and a few other little mods Richie does to improve cars like this.

I built the 2276 IDA engine myself for my previous 71 "late looker " and kept it when I sold that to go into this, cogbox built me a close 1st to 3rd ratio box with stock 4th. that's about it

Here's the link to the '71 build, the engine info is here.
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That's why I recognise it  ;D
Thanks for the info
Lee

At Saturday I made two test runs ever with my "new" drag beetle. Last run were 11,137s / 191,90kmh. I'm happy!  :) I think that there is more to come..

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Cool, well done 8) Is that Roar's old car?

cheers Richie

Thanks! And yes, thats the car.

My front yard with a few friends

Your neighbours must love you :o :D  Very cool though :)

Went to the breakfast club at Shelsley Walsh hill climb this morning. There were lots of different cars there, Ferrari 512, Lotus Elan, a couple of Peugeot 205 Gti's, various Westfield and Caterhams, lots of Morgan's etc.
Good cooked breakfast, beautiful scenery and an interesting variety of machinery.

Local dinner was having a Christmas Eve classic car meet, so we took the opportunity to give the red cabrio a run out and let our new dog Max (that we just adopted from a rescue centre) enjoy the wind in his face and meet some new people.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171224/95ec8323c68b26bb9d7e2e2b07028937.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171224/5ea2e8ba18451666283e1454b5e8186f.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171224/1e2e140ac141880d28488e51f96aa3df.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171224/3893083059a7c3c9fcd2b45cb5ee4625.jpg)

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A lucky dog.
And when is gonna make his first 10sec. pass? ;D

Henk!!!

I took my car to the London museum of steam and water to the steam and gasoline show. It’s a small show put on by Neil Melliard of Pro Sign and Neil Brown. Plenty of cool cars and you can also have a look at the museum.  Not a vw I know, but it is aircooled and more cal look than a trike

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Looks good out in the sun Dave 8) Ironically we took couple of our cars out to a local show today at a old Steam train railway/museum & resto sheds with old engines etc in it, something a bit different

Nice! No good leaving them in the garage doing nothing  ;)

Added a few more stone chips and dead flies to mine this weekend too


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After demolishing the current garage (asbestos sheet/wood frame) at the Crofts house last weekend I needed a new temporary storage solution for the 63.
Harvey (Nedbug) has kindly offered a bit of storage so made the 40 mile trip today. Great fun

I know I've told you before, but I've always loved your '63! ;D

Thank you  ;D
It certainly made me smile today.
Lee

https://youtu.be/Z59LrK6NY5U

He’s started parting it out on Facebook lol

 :o ;D

Maybe last chance of year to take car out now we are getting frosts most nights and they will start salting roads soon, local Krispy Kremes has a sunday meet for Yanks/classics etc & sun was out so went in Red cabrio for a look and a donut or two ;D :D 

 We did take bets on which mustang would crash leaving but strangely none obliged  :o ;D

It was a Nice day yesterday, so I took my car to Stonor Park. I need some better ear plugs and a interior next!

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Cool 8) how does it drive now with the IRS conversion?

cheers Richie

It drives nice, can’t really tell the difference as I never had a problem with swing axle.  I’m driving it longer distances and fixing the problems so I can try and make it a 10 second street car. No A frames or trailers needed  ;D

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A trip home with the AA is more than likely on the cards though considering my luck

after a blast out to a local car show.
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Doesn't look like anyone else turned up? ;D guessing it was put on by the uk cal look clowns club? ::)

LOL I've updated my text :P it visited Gingertown :D

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Went to the 1200Challenge dynoday shoot-out in Northern Germany (took the notch out): this 1192cc made 109 hp through the 30PICT at 1,1 bar boost!

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And a Fiat 850 with a 1641 Turbo made 183hp:

https://youtu.be/Nuf386FuzwU

Coolest meeting I've been to in a long time  8)

Awesome.
Didnt realise that it was still going on!!
Is there a website and/or more video??

Who won?

Cheers

The car pictured above had the highest 1200 hp reading that day ;-)

Here is the german forum with more pics and video links a page further, but participants join a whatapp group where most is shared  ;)

https://bugfans.de/forum/1200cc/challenge-2019-jahre-wahnsinn-t18970-30.html

I finally did the return trip from what I posted above. My new garage was ready to accept the 63 back. Did the 40 mile trip home and enjoyed every second. Had a bit of fun with a Fiesta ST on the way too.

Lee

I had to visit my local VW showroom in Dundee today. I followed my wife in as she had a service on her golf. The sales guys loved the beetle and put it on their 360 degree photo booth, so they could get some pictures on their web page. The photo,s looked good so thought I would share here.

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Last ones.

Great pics I want one of those rotating things for my shed  :)

That looks awesome on there Dennis 8)

I was not the best one at the sea but i sure did had the coolest ride.  :D

Henk!!!

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Cool to see though 8)

cheers Richie

Not mine, but my grandmother's '70 Westy that my wife and I took on a honeymoon camping trip around our home state of Colorado over the past week. I didn't get nearly enough pictures of the bus until the last two days of the trip, but they're certainly good ones.

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Nice, I lived out that way for couple years in Breckenridge and made it out to Steamboat but it was march time so just lots of white stuff everywhere :D


cheers Richie

Your honeymoon trip.
So if the van was rocking don’t come knocking. ;D

Henk!!

Sounds about right for any time between November and May out here... I'm just glad I bought big heater boxes for my '67  ;D  When were you living in Breck?

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Nice! That seems like it would have been right before it started getting too heavily developed and expensive, but maybe that's just my perspective. I miss being able to afford to snowboard there.

To the dragraces at claster this weekend.

Henk!!!

Well, since my little brother bought a slightly Frankensteined little '74 standard a few weeks back, my dad and I have been working on getting it ready for life in Chicago as his only car, so we saw fit to do some junkyarding for the harder-to-find parts.

Here are four of the bugs we found, the fifth wasn't worth getting anything off of.

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Once we'd gotten our little stash of parts together, we hid them and took a little walk around the yard to admire some of the scrap. This is one of the last really old-school junkyards around, and there are cars in here older than my grandparents. This Edsel, for instance, has been in here since both my parents were in diapers.

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Eventually though, the heat got to us and we decided to get out of there, having some beer outside an abandoned house across the dirt road from the yard before finding a brewery with some food options.

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So between the drive too and from the junkyard, the drive to Denver later that night, and the drive home yesterday, it ended up being a solid 200 mile weekend for my old warhorse. Hopefully y'all got out and did some fun stuff with your weekends!

Pretty cool Andrew.
WHere I live (London, UK) I dont think there are ANY old school scrap yards left... :-(

BTW I would definitely have grabbed that Edsel AND the Ford Fiesta MK1 in the row behind  :D
I bought my last Fiesta for £50 running on 3 cylinders, a £15 rocker shaft from the scrappy and I had a daily for the next 2 years!!

Marc

Oh trust me, if I had any real money/space, that Edsel would be coming home with me ASAP. People over on FaceSuck keep saying I'd be better off finding one with a grille and a windshield, but as far as I'm concerned, any Edsel is a good enough Edsel to save.