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| I met Claude, Stuart and Tim, bright and early on the Sunday morning at the local superstore. My green 1969 bay, Claude's 1960 Kombi and Stuart's 1971 red oxide early bay. |
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| En-route to the sports centre we drove through torrential rain, but by the time we arrived the rain had virtually stopped, which may have helped us get parking spaces in the main car park. Here Claude's 1960 kombi parked up in a row of split screen buses. This is a public car park, which means you have to park where you can. |
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| A gorgeous crew cab split screen pick up in a white over a lovely green lower half. I have seen this crew cab a few times before and it looks better every time I see it. |
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| Just one of the row's in the car park. Plenty of Beetle's, a Notchback, an early Bay and a Split Screen. These guy's must have also braved the torrential rain to get here so early. |
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| A gorgeous single cab split screen in light grey over white with matching steel wheels.This really was a nice and clean pick up. |
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| I think the passenger in the single cab could do with one of the bacon rolls that were on sale at the swap meet. |
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| This early oval beetle looked great in that nice shade of blue (Dove blue I think, although I could be wrong) and with those Cosmic wheels. |
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| Such a nice looking car, there really is some- thing about the body lines on an early oval that is just so beautiful. |
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| Another 2 oval bug's, the first is a lovely gloss black. What a difference a colour makes, the blue one above and this black one look so different, but they are both the same car. |
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| I did like this Beetle, the steel wheels with the domed hub caps and along with front and rear bumpers this Bug looked close to original. |
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| The same goes to the 3rd oval in this row, I do like the original look on these early oval's. |
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| I don't know who drove this cool early looking beach buggy to the swap meet, but I do know the driver was very brave. The poor guy must have been soaked on the drive down. |
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| My '69 bay looking a bit damp in the sports centre car park. Even though It had almost stopped raining when this photo was taken, Claude, Stuart and I decided to head indoors and go to the swap meet. |
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| The Montem sports hall isn't the biggest hall in the world, but it was surprising how many traders they could fit into it. |
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| Traders from all over the UK, and I even saw a couple of traders from Europe selling almost anything you could think of for air cooled VW's. |
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| Yes I know it's a 1965 Chevrolet C-10 truck in red primer at a Volkswagen swap meet, but you just couldn't turn it away, could you? |
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| A lovely looking truck, by the way that isn't a painted design down the side of the pick up bed, it's where the red oxide paint is drying out now that the rain has stopped. |
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| A stunning early Beetle in a very unusual but gorgeous brown colour. I did like those wheels which made the car stand out even more than the paint. |
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| This Beetle had some really nice discreet old skool pinstriping on the wing tops and on the bonnet, it's all about the detail. |
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| Four split screens parked up in the sports hall car park. Various years and different styles, variety really is the spice of life in Slough. |
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| Considering the awful weather on the morning of the event, the number of air cooled VW's that attended the swap meet was to say the least, very impressive. |
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| How low can you go.. This late split screen shows you how low you can go without using hydraulic suspension. |
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| Now that is low... |
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| Beetle's galore parked up at the Montem Sports Centre, again so many different years and even more different styles. |
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| Looking along just on of the lines in the car park. You can see what I mean about so many different types of air cooled vehicles. Hang on, is that a little bit of blue sky I can see? |
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| This early Beetle may not be to everyone's taste but I think it's great. The last time I saw this Bug was at the Volksworld show, way back in March this year, and the car looks exactly the same. That green stain on the bonnet is actually some form of moss / mildew, |
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| This is just about perfect, very very RAT but so cool. I did like the twin yellow spots on the roof rack along with the CB radio antenna. |
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| The moss / mildew is on most of the panels on this early oval bug. I'm not sure if you can make it out but on the air vents under the rear window is a really neat old skool 3rd brake light |
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| This baby blue beetle stood out from the other beetle's, not only due to it's lovely blue body but also because of the cream coloured steel wheels with the correct hub caps (for the year) and the finishing touch were the white wall tyres which suited the car perfectly. |
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| It's not unusual to see a 'Herbie' replica at a VW event or show but this race themed style version was a bit different. |
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| The 'Centreline' style wheels, the raised engine lid and that massive Stinger exhaust made this replica love bug unique. |
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| This single cab split screen pick up looked striking in it's contrasting paint scheme with those Fuchs wheels. |
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| How about this for a car park photo, air cooled VW's as far as the eye can see. As I mentioned earlier, the car park was open for the members of the sports hall, I can imagine their faces when they arrived for an early Sunday morning swim, and were confronted with all these VW's. |
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| I would say the VW's took up about 3/4 of the parking spaces available. Here a Variant, fast back and notch back all parked up together. |
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| There really was a vast diversity of air cooled VW's at the Slough Swap meet, which when you think how poor the weather was first thing in the morning, is a testament to all the dedicated VW owners that came along. |
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| This early bay was lovely, it was looking very RAT and with a narrowed front beam and painted steels. It also had yellow perspex side windows (which sounds YUK but it actually looked really good. I thought I had a side photo of this bus, but I haven't) |
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| Next to the early bay, was this 1967 split screen that had been hit with the lowering stick.You can see how low this splitty by the early bays in the background. |
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| Another 1967 split screen in a very RAT look condition. This had been lowered and has what looks like a narrowed front end. It doesn't matter how RAT looking a splitty is, or any other VW for that matter, they still look gorgeous. |
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| Claude's 1960 kombi split screen runs a strong 1641cc motor with twin Dellorto carbs and a Scat C35 cam. Since purchasing the 'Tesoro' bus Claude has slammed it, with a narrow beam, with disc brakes a new gearbox and straight axle. |
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| A lovely 1970 / 71 Karmann Ghia finished in bright white. This two year only model looked very much original and in amazing condition. |
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| This U.S. import has the larger tail lights with integrated reversing lights and the larger wrap around turn signals. The whole light cluster design changed in 1972. |
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| An absolutely immaculate early split screen in a gorgeous white over light grey paint scheme with matching steel wheels. |
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| Hey, it doesn't matter this this old bug has the odd dent and scratch, or that the door is not the same colour as the rest of the body... why not I hear you ask?... |
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| Because it's an pre 1957 oval window, that's why. OK I know there were at least 6 oval's at the swap meet, but these are quite rare, so to have one on the road in any condition is quite a feat in its self, and always good to see. |
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| Another pre '57 oval this time finished in a lovely light silver colour. I don't know if this an original colour, (I doubt it) but it really does suit the car. |
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| The classic and beautiful lines of an oval bug. I did like that blind in the rear window. |
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| This race inspired Beetle belongs to Jonny, a member of The Wolfsburg Weed Huggers VW club based in Penn St, in Bucks. |
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| Empi air scoops and a neat little spoiler are nice accessories, as are that big exhaust and those large rear tyres. |
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| An early spilt screen crew cab pick up that looked great with that cyclopes light on the cab roof. The old style canvas cover over the pick up bed was nice as were the sign written doors and the harp style mirror stems. |
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| This mid 1960's Karmann Ghia finished in a very light grey colour looked lovely parked up on the kerb. Those low profile tyres on the 5 spoke wheels not only looked good but also added to the low ride height. |
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| Ok, it is parked on a kerb, but even so this is one seriously lowered Ghia. This style of tail light denotes the car was produced from 1960 - 1969, and as they are all red, I'm guessing this is a U.S. import. |
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| This 1967 crew cab split screen pick up was immaculate. The colour coded steel wheels looked great on the narrowed front beam. |
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| How's this for an immaculate pick up bed. The paint and those lovely wood strips all looked brand new. This really was a nice crew cab that does get driven, even in the rain to Slough. |
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| The engine compartment was as clean as the rest of the bodywork. The engine with those twin carb's was amazingly clean seeing as the truck had just driven through the rain. So that was the Slough Swapmeet for 2014. Overall a very enjoyable day with an amazing collection of air cooled VW's in the car park, whilst inside the sports hall it had a very good variety of trade and auto jumble stands to ensure a comprehensive collection of new and old parts and accessories for almost every air cooled VW. I'll be going back again next year, and hopefully the weather will be better. Don't forget to check out 'My Blog Archive' to the left of this page to see all my previous posts. Simply click on an arrow for a year, then click on an arrow for a month to see a drop down menu for all the posts for that particular month. |
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