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| This Mk1 Golf was absolutely insane, It was sat virtually on the ground with a super narrowed front beam and some really cool 'Centreline' look-a-like wheels that were highly polished. |
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| You can see just how low this Mk1 really is. I think the body was sat on what looked like a modified beetle floor pan. |
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| I had no idea what engine powered this Golf, but I'm sure I heard someone say it was a 3 cylinder rotary engine. |
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| A 1959 Rometsch Lawerence coupe, with a hand built aluminium body, over a steel and wooden frame which would have taken approximately 1000 man hours to create. |
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| The Berlin based workshop only created about 250 of these coupe's, and to buy one new would have cost 8000 Deutsche marks, 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. 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. |
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| The interior of the Rometsch is a bit sparse, but where would you even start looking for original interior trim for this car? |
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| Looking across one of the halls at the DTA end of season meet. The early bay on the left has featured on my blog before, it suffered from quite a serious fire in the engine bay. The bus was rebuilt but the owner decided not to repaint the body, he just lacquered over the damage. And I have to say, it does look good like that. |
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| Every parking place was full of lovely air cooled Volkswagen's. Every model, most years and every style imaginable. |
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| Fantastic photo showing the diversity of all the vehicles at the DTA meet. Early Beetles, a very rare Rometsch, and split screen buses all in one great covered location. |
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| Karmann Ghia's, early Porsche's, Beetles, early / late bay's and spilt screens were all on show at this annual end of season meet. |
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| This really was an ideal location for the DTA clubs end of season meet and the allocated parking spaces were full by 10.00am. |
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| These beautiful classic VW's looked great with the industrial brickwork of the old printing works in the background. |
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| Outside in the overflow car park these two deluxe split screen's parked up together in the overflow car park. A green 1964 with a slight RAT look going on, and a 1965 white over silver bus all painted. Two splitty's, but they look so different yet both are so nice. |
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| Also in the car park was this gorgeous jet black single cab split screen pick up. The finish on this paint was amazing and it shows in the mile deep reflection. |
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| The overflow car park had some seriously cool vehicles which would not have looked out of place inside the venue. |
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| I loved the colour of this imported early bay, it looked like something straight out of the 1960's with it's white over bronze paint. I did like the high ride height on this deluxe bay and the twin roof racks. |
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| This baby blue 1969 Karmann Ghia looked great parked up in the sunshine. This really was a clean and straight car and it was quite unusual to have the roof painted the same as the body, but it works really well. |
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| This mint green Beetle stood out in the car park, as the colour was so bright. I do like those BRM wheels, and the twin yellow spot lights on that towel rail front bumper. A nice accessory were the 'Empi' badges on the cars A posts. |
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| This 1979 late bay panel van was really nice. I have a liking for panel van's and this light blue van was really straight and finished to a very high standard. A neat touch was the mesh sun visor. |
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| This 1967 Beetle looked like work in progress, but that that's OK, its on the road and attending the shows and that is all that matters. |
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| A lovely 1965 split screen in light grey paint. There is nothing flash or fancy about this bus, but it's simple plain look is what I liked about it. |
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| This lovely 1970 imported bay looked great in it's new colour. I have seen this bus on the 'early bay appreciation society' page on face book when it was blue, but the owner spent 3 weeks sanding off the blue paint to reveal a much better patina'd red colour. |
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| Looks like the owner still has a little bit more sanding down to go to get the rest of that nasty blue colour off. This is such a sweet looking bus. |
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| A late bay on the left and an early bay on the right parked up opposite the venue. Both these buses looked great especially against the stark industrial buildings in the background. |
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| This gorgeous U.S. import belongs to friends of mine, Zoe and Spike from 'The House of Dub' VW Club. This solid bus is from the sunny state of Arizona and has a 1641cc engine and is currently up for sale on e-bay for a modest £11,995. This really is very a nice looking bus and very reliable too. So if your looking for a nice solid imported early bay check out e-bay (Item No. 301350769704) or send Zoe or Spike a message via the 'Official House of Dub' face book page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/houseofdubvwclub/ |
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| A 1970 Beetle parked up on the outside the old printing works on the old cobbled streets of Birmingham city centre. This Bug had a few knocks and bumps, but that's OK, it was road legal and still on the road attending shows. |
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| I was trying to get all artistic here... looking at the reflection of the old printing works in the (above) 1970 Beetle's hub cap. |
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| Back in the car park I noticed the stunning early split screen, in a lovely shade of brown over white with matching steel wheels with white wall tyres. |
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| This bus was finished to such a high standard, just look how straight that rear upper rear quarter is, and how well the reflection is. |
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| Opposite the overflow car park and just around the corner from the DTA meet venue, I saw two low loader recovery trucks and a T25 with a trailer.. you'd never guess there was an air cooled VW gathering taking place.!! |
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| On the way back from Birmingham City centre Claude and I decided to take a break from the motorway driving and have comfort stop and get some much needed caffeine. Claude's 1960 kombi and my 1969 bay parked up in the car park at the M40 services. So that was the DTA end of season meet for 2014. I am so glad I saw the post on face book about this VW event, as it was a fantastic day out. There were so many amazing VW's of all descriptions at the meet and many of which I hadn't seen before. This event will definitely go on my calendar for 2015. A massive thanks and well done to all the DTA members for putting on such an incredible, very well attended meet in such an ideal location. See you all in 2015. My next review is of the Slough Swap meet. (to be posted next Saturday),The Slough Swap meet is an air cooled VW table top sale / auto jumble event held in the Montem Sports Hall, in Slough. So don't forget to come back soon to read all about the event. |
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