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| This gorgeous early beetle was the first car to be seen as you entered one of the halls, and the attention to detail was superb. This could be why it won the 'Best in show' award. |
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| Such a lovely looking car, I do like fender skirts on early bugs. This really was like brand new, everthing including every nut and bolt was immaculate. |
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| The variety of cars on show was diverse and this 1966 Karmann Ghia type 34 is as diverse as it gets. |
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| Pure race orientated with a 2165cc type 1 magnesium engine, it also had a tube chassis, and was even FIA approved. The driver of this beauty was Ron Lummus. |
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| Hubba, hubba... There were plenty of pretty Volksworld girls on hand to give out show brochures through out the weeknd.This stunner caught my eye and I just couldn't resist asking her if I could take her photo, she seemed to like the attention! |
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| A friend of mine, Tom Dunkley who is a member of the 'Wolfsberg Weed Huggers', a VW club about 10 miles away from my hometown was luckily enough to have his 1966, 1300 deluxe beetle accepted to display in the main hall. |
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| Tom had spent about 2 years creating this beauty, and it features a 4" narrowed beam with dropped spindles, with disc bakes up front. It has a 1776 motor with an engle 110 cam and twin 40 dellorto's and a Gene Berg dual quiet pack exhaust. |
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| As you would expect Tom paid attention to detail even under the hood. Well done Tom, great looking bug. |
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| In one of the halls they had erected a replica of a VW showroom from the 1950's with some stunning examples. This beetle was 100% original. |
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| Another stunning example was this 1956 Denzel S 1300, it has an aluminium body that was hand made in Vienna. The number of these cars left in the world you could count on one hand. |
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| Simply stunning rear end. How did they create such beautiful curves by hand back in '56? |
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| Another beautiful looking car, with a aluminium and steel body, again hand made. |
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| Really early convertible beetle in stunning mid yellow and deep gloss black. |
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| How nice does this look, can't even imagine what this could be worth. |
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| This 1963 1500cc Beutler really stood out with it's bold paint job and unusual pick up body conversion. |
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| The hand crafted pick up bed really is a work of art. |
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| No prize's for guessing what year this is.. Unfortunately that's all I remember about this. |
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| This was a 'top 20' winner at the show but for me, it was the car of the show. It's a 1959 Rometsch Lawerence coupe, with a hand built aluminium body, over a steel and wooden frame which would have taken approimately 1000 man hours to create. |
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| Apparently the Berlin based workshop only created about 250 of these coupe's, and to buy one new would have cost 8000 Deutchmarks, which was twice the price of it's rival at the time, the Karmann Ghia. This Rometsch in this condition is probably now worth well over US $40,000. |
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It was designed by Bert Lawerence, and the body sits on modified beetle chassis, the radical design won the Golden Rose Award of Geneva in 1957. I didn't find out much about this particular Rometsch, but I didn't need to, I just needed to stand admire it. |
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| Interior looked a bit ratty but it looked original and that just adds to it's charm, and value. |
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| Another top 20 winner was 'Evil Bens' the Devils Milk Float. Its was built by Keller Karosserie in Lampertheim,Germany in 1973.The body has been chanelled 3" over the chassis with the cab floor raised 4.5". It has a 4" dropped beam and flipped spindles. |
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| The interior is called 'the smoking room' It's interior has modified 1965 split screen bus seats, original OG carpet and the steering wheel is from a 1956 Masey Ferguson Tractor. |
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| The flatbed has been tubed to make room for the 5.5" Fuchs rear rims. The whole body and flatbed sits on a 1965 split screen chassis. Handmade oak panelling compliment the body. |
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| It's running a 1600cc type 3 engine with dellorto carbs and a four into one exhaust |
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| A 'Moon' fuel tank keeps the flatbed looking nice and neat. A custom made canvas cover keeps everything under wraps. |
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| The 'Cool flo' guys had this on show... loving it. |
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| Very straight split screen. Just look down the side panels, how straight? |
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| A somewhat modern version of the classic split screen. |
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| Keep it simple, it'll get noticed. Less is more as the saying goes. |
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| Very unusual way to keep the doors open.. with a VW script stay bar. |
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| Very early split pick up with canvas cover. I would love one of these, not sure what I'd do with it, but I'd love one anyway. |
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| Back outside in the cold I spotted this oval bug in the public car park. The car park was full of really nice vehicles. |
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| Talking of which, how about this '68 Karmann Ghia finished in turquoise. |
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| Again just parked up in the car park, this was not far off being show standard. |
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| Bargain.! |
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| Rat looking beetle just inside the venue. |
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| Alongside the rat looking bug was this even rattier looking spilt. |
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| Now this I did like, I do like the Alpine Rally looking bugs and buses. It must something about me wanting to be back in the Swiss alps... happy days. |
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| One day we'll all have something similar to this and we'll all meet up at the beach. |
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| Talking of the beach... the beach buggy stand. I do like metal flake paint, reminds me of my childhood, and it suits buggies perfectly. |
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| This turquoise metal flake was gorgeous when the light caught it. |
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| The simplicity of a beach buggy is so desirable. |
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| Moving on, this lime green baja was loud, and that was just the paint! |
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| This split screen was lovely. From the two tone paint, to the colour coded bumpers to the deluxe trim and the safari screens. |
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| Karmann Ghia. Very low, very clean. |
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| How about this for a clean razor edge. Nothing flash or fancy, just very clean and straight, lowered and a nice set of wheels. |
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| Karmann Ghia was very similar, very clean very straight and very low. Just about perfect. |
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| Wheel choice can make or break a car, and these wheels on the Karmann definitely make the car. |
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| The engine bay on the Karmann was as you expect just as clean and tidy as the rest of the car. |
