ok! first off, not a fugitive trip but i thought some of you guys (of the VW persuasion) may be interested in a little trip we are in the early stages of planning from farm HQ B)

i've always wanted to do the nurburgring and have decided that this is the year to do it since i'll be buying a mk2 golf GTi soon and, well, it would be rude not to really! ;)

coincidentally my mate is in the process of building a '53 barndoor van to go to Bad Camberg, a fest for pre '57 dubs held once every 4 years........so we thought hell!! why not combine the two and roll into germany together and make a week of it :D

then we thought "Wolfsburg VW Museum!" so we're planning to take that in too B)

and we've roped in another mate to hopefully build a '55 panel van to roll with us and possibly an early oval bug too. :o

Bad Camberg is 22-24 june and we are in the very early stages of planning this (a lot depends on the 'ring calendar which isn't released until feb :rolleyes: ) but if anyone else is interested it should make for a good trip :D

and i'll need some help to smuggle this back.......




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Did Wolfsburg a couple of years back with our VW club, tour round the factory, 2 days around the Autostrada park....very interesting, but better is just down the road at Diesel Strasse (not sure on the spelling) all the VW's that are not nice enough for the main museum...old Paris Dakar racers, Beetle road trains, all sorts of wierd stuff - absolutley fantastic - you can get a good meal in the Autostrada as well, band plays there, really cool and atmospheric, stayed in a hotel just over from the main factory entrance - superb place, great food and the beer was fab. Only downside is that Wolfsburg is a fookin long way east!

But yeah do it - worth the journey

cheers! Adrian.

thanks for the tip ade, we'll definately look into that B) ;)

ps ade! what vw club you in? B)

sounds like a good one if you arranged a trip to wolfsburg ;)

Hampshire VW Owners Club....(www.hvwoc.co.uk) - on the comitee of the club, but didn't do anything regarding organising that trip (probably why it was so good!) we filled a coach of 50 people no worries - there is talk of us doing ti again later this year...we shall see...cheers! Adrian.

In that case you will know the beer bus boys in their Brazilian 15window.

They know me, small world. :)

sound like my kinda people!!! :lol: B)

Yeah they're a good bunch of Lads, i think they've all retired now but have been into Vdub's since before we were born.

They get to most of the show's too. B)

One of them does the Judson Register (John Moxon) which is nice.

mmm...superchargers.... :wub: B)

OH yes B) i love superchargers :wub:

guy i know has bolted a new Mini blower to his 1.0 litre polo :o

thinking about doing the same to mine...... :ph43r:

Nice move, should give it a bit more go. :D

or try to build your own jet-engine !!! :D







note: this is just an protoype ! the guy will come with an 10inch bellhouse turbo :ph43r:


jet engine

Nice! B)

build my own jet engine you say...... :o :D :blink:

*starts scribbling on back of beer mat* :ph43r:

ok delayed reply I know...yeah, you could say I know them, one of them Trev did the honours at my wedding last August, here he is stood in front of his other bus, that's Annette and me in the back, she the attractive one, I am the one without the hair.

cheers! Adrian.

Yes there he is then, :D looking very farther christmas on holiday esque :lol:

Nice bus he has there isn't it. B)

Blimey it's a small world!

You got married at St Mary church which is 50m away from my house. :lol:

Yeah St Marys in Bishopstoke - guess this means there are 2 Fug's in Bishopstoke then...should form a local branch of the owners club!

cheers! Adrian.

btw "on-topic" are you guys going to germany with the van ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSwkGcab3fk

yep still the plan (well not me - i'll be taking a water pumper :o ;) )

not sure we'll fit in as many ladies as in the youtube clip either...... :lol:

this is the VZi thread of the progress gary and dai have made so far on the two barndoors they are hoping to take B)

http://www.volkszone.com/VZi/showthread.php?t=328865

Nice! liking the Bandoor action, super cool! B)

it's awesome living here i get to see all the little changes day by day B) B)

today though gary has decided that the '55 isn't low enough so the beam has come back off to have adjusters fitted and it my end up tubbed too...... :o

i hope there are no barndoor purists watching.... :lol: ;)

Well it gives me an amount of horror when i hear about things like that, but then i think about the fact it is only metal and as long as it's alive, it can always be put back to original at some point. :huh: ;)

So what progress have you made dude, apart from joining the bajaclub forum :lol: :lol: :ph43r:

nothing at all on the fuge yet :(

all my garage time has been spent on the polo due to the fact that it's my daily driver and has had a few issues since bein put back on the road after 4 years in various garages :rolleyes: ;)

so far we've had 2 trips to the hard shoulder (loss of alternator belt and a carb prob) i've had to rebuild the carb and fabricate a new alernator tensioner as a result :P

also had a couple of exhaust probs etc etc but it seems to be running sweet now so once the paint is finished and it's been hit with the lowering stick i can turn my attention to the fuge and the bay..... :ph43r:

how about you guys? any progress to report? :blink:

Weeeell we've made a few modifications to the orange Fudge 2 but we're not ready to show them and apparently we've aquired another Beetle!

So thats 9 Bus restorations, 3 Fudges and 2 Bajas to make with one man doing the work and one man making the teas. :lol:

sounds about the right ratio :lol: someone has to keep the kettle boiling!!! ;)

i'll have a coffee with half a sugar please mate :P

:lol: that said, we'll make a hardened spanner wielder out of kieron yet! ;)

spanner wielding and kettle boiling....that's my idea of multi tasking! :lol: ;)

SHHH don't let Kieron hear you say that, he'll get a big head! :D

well we can't have that!! :lol:

besides, it's a well known fact that only ladies can multi-task...... :P ;)

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Thats not true... I can look and letch. :lol:

i thought that was programmed into men from birth!! :lol: ;)

just checking summat.....ignore this ;)