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| A few of The Outcast VW Club members vehicles at the March monthly meet. A very good selection of both air cooled and water cooled Volkswagen's on display. |
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| Gary popped over from the neighbouring county of Bedfordshire to attend our club meet in his lovely white over blue 1971 early bay. |
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| I think Gary uses this as his daily driver which is a testament to it's reliability. I do like this bus and I especially like the standard ride height. |
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| Yes I know everyone lowers their bus as low as it can go, but it's not very practical and as this is a daily driver, it makes sense to have it at stock height... although I think Gary is trying to decide whether to have it lowered or not. |
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| This really is a nice clean crossover bus that Gary and his family also use at weekends to attend numerous VW shows and events across the U.K. throughout the summer. |
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| Claude is back from a 3 month trip to France to visit his family and came along to our club meet in his lovely 1960 Kombi split screen. |
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| Very distinctive front end on Claude's bus, the black bra which he purchased in the states protects his bus from stone chips and with the single bumper mounted red spot light. |
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| Claude has just got his bus back from the "Paint Shop Pro's" where they colour matched a few small scratches that the bus had picked up over the years. |
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| Claude's bus with the 'Tesoro brand' logo. I think I'm right in saying that the Tesoro brand was a company in the U.S growing oranges and this bus was used to transport the oranges once they were harvested. |
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| My 1969 microbus parked up. I have to admit the old girl is starting to look a bit ratty, so it's just as well I have it booked in to have a full re-spray, hopefully sometime next month. |
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| I've decided to keep the Delta green colour but have the green up to the gutter and it will be a satin finish, not gloss. The white roof and bumpers will be the same cloud white as original but again also in a satin finish. |
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| Just a random photo of the rear of a few of the Outcast members buses. It wasn't my best idea to park my ratty green bus next to Kevin's green shiny T4 as it shows mine up. |
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| Looking along the line up the other way, is Claude's 1960 kombi and Gary's 1971 bay. |
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| Last month in by blog write up on the Outcast clubs monthly meet, I mentioned that Kevin's T4 looked dirty, well I'm pleased to say that Kevin has put the time and effort in, and it's back to it's expected normal shiny standard. |
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| Kevin's long wheelbase T4 really is a lovely looking bus in a gorgeous colour and well worth the effort of washing and waxing it. |
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| Kevin was telling us that whilst he was checking his bus for an electrical fault, he discovered that his 3 year old leisure battery wasn't actually wired up to anything and that all this time all his ancillaries had been wired up to the main battery, which is probably why every so often his battery would run flat. Kevin has now rectified the problem but the morale of the story is, never trust some- body else's wiring, get it checked out for safety reasons if nothing else. |
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| One of Kevin's new stickers on his rear window, and as an 'old guy' myself I can verify that it's all true what the sticker says, we are high performance and low maintenance. |
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| A close up of Kevin's custom metal tail gate badge with the inscription 'The Grinch' the name of Kevin's T4. |
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| Simon came along in his 1997 red T4 with contrasting lime green banded wheels. Simon's bus has a multi coloured 'knight rider' light in the front grill that just happened in be on a similar green to the wheels when this photo was taken. |
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| Simon has just had a new tail gate fitted after the old one was hit whilst it was open by a passing van which caused it to twist and so, it would not shut properly. |
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| Stuart and his son Tim came along in Stuart's 1970 beetle. This is another vehicle that is used as not only a daily driver but also as a parts collection vehicle for his VW repair shop. |
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| Stuart owns and runs 'Oil Droppers' a VW repair workshop based just outside Aylesbury, however working on customers VW's all day leaves little time for work on his own Bug, which he says can be very frustrating at times. |
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| Stuarts retro looking roof rack. This looks pure period and suits the car well. |
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| Amanda followed Simon down to the club meet in her Mk4 sliver Golf. This lovely looking car has tinted windows and custom wheels and of course her infamous number plate: "X ARSE" |
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| Mandy's car really does look nice, the shiny silver paintwork is complimented by the custom red / pink wheels. |
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| Looking along the club members vehicles at the club meet. A very spacious and well lit car park with more than enough room for us all to safely park together. |
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| Sam and Kevin came along to the club meet in Sam's Beetle. This is Sam's daily driver and is also used for his pastime of off road trialling at the weekends. |
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| This car is all about function, enabling it to get up those steep slippery hills, and through the muddy troughs to the end of the trial. |
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| To aid traction on the rear drive wheels, and just in case they are needed Sam has mounted a couple of spare wheels on the deck lid. The motorcycle exhaust looks like an after thought but in fact it gives yet more much needed ground clearance at the rear of the car. |
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| You can see just how much ground clearance Sam's bug really has. Shiny paint and nice chrome wheels are the last things Sam needs when he is up to the bottom of the doors in mud and water driving across a field. |
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| The Outcast VW Club line up for the March monthly meet. As usual it was a very impressive turn out of vehicles both air cooled and water cooled. Overall it was a very enjoyable evening with good conversation with some good friends. The Outcast VW Club meet up on the first Thursday of each month, come rain or shine throughout the year, so if your in the area why not pop down and meet us all. You will be made very welcome and you could ask or give advise on technical issues, or just join in the random chat from the club members, or maybe just have a good look at the VW's you may have seen driving around the town. Whatever your reason, we look forward to meeting you next month. In the meantime why not check out our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/outcast.v.club |
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