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| The Outcast VW club meet from 7pm on the first Thursday of each month. I only live about 1.5 miles from the Charter Pub, so I was the first to arrive in my 1969 microbus. The pub car park has ample space for our club meet. |
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| By the time I had got a soft drink from the bar and returned outside, three other club members had arrived in their buses. |
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| Stuart came along to the club meet in his very distinctive 1971 early bay. Stuart owns and runs 'Oil Droppers' an air cooled Volkswagen repair and restoration shop just outside Aylesbury. |
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| Stuart's red oxide painted bay is running a hot 1671cc engine with a home built turbo system. |
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| To keep an eye on what's going on with the engine and the turbo, Stuart has a rev counter with shift light and boost gauge for the turbo mounted on top of his dashboard. |
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| Claude arrived at the Outcast meet in his 1960 split screen kombi that has been lowered and has a narrowed beam with disc brakes. |
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| Claude's 'Tesoro' bus is running a 1641cc motor with a Scat C35 cam with twin Dellorto carbs. |
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| My 1969 VW Microbus parked up at the Charter Pub with it's new 'Route67' sticker on the front screen. This is a charity event I am taking part in, a trip from John O'Groats to Lands End in a convoy of Volkswagen's (mostly air cooled) to raise money for the charity 'Crisis'. |
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| The event is taking place in July, so I think a full service is due before the adventure. From John O Groats to Lands End it's 1008 miles, and so far there are about 60 / 70 old air cooled VW's signed up for the cruise. Check out the Route67 website for more info: http://vwroute67.co.uk/ |
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| Dave and Angela came along in their lovely 1967 Split Screen. Dave and Angela have travelled all over Europe in this bus which is a testament to it's reliability. |
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| Dave is running a strong 1955cc motor, with all the internal goodies. This bus really does go as well as it looks. |
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| A new visitor to the Outcast VW Club was this lovely looking green T4. This bus was so clean it put most of us to shame. My apologies but I cannot remember the owners name.. Doh! |
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| The contrasting cream coloured wheels are actually from a Land Rover but they look so good on this T4. This really is a nice looking bus that we hope to see again at our club meet in the near future. |
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| The club line up quite early in the evening, it doesn't matter whether you own an air-cooled or water cooled Volkswagen, you'll be more than welcome at the Outcast clubs monthly meet at the Charter Pub. |
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| It doesn't matter how you get to our club meet... The owner of this Sierra Yellow panel van had just purchased it and had taken it to the car wash which is down the road from our club meet. Driving past he noticed all our Volkswagen's so turned around and came to visit us. He had bought it for a very good price and was thinking about breaking it for spares as the body / chassis were very rotten. It turned out that the owner has a lovely bay window and lives locally so hopefully, we'll see another new club member soon. |
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| Gary came over from the neighbouring county of Bedfordshire in his gorgeous 1971 early bay. I believe this is Gary's daily driver as well as his weekend camping vehicle with his partner Maria and their dog Frankie. |
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| Gary was in discussions with the owner of the late bay on the trailer regarding the Empi 5 spoke wheels, which Gary thought would look good on his cross over bay. |
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| Kerry and Becky made an appearance at the club meet in Kerry's 1979 late bay which is also painted in Sierra Yellow. Kerry has a new colour matched chequered bra fitted to protect the front from stone chips and general road kill. |
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| A slightly blurred photo of Kerry's bus, but even in a blurred photo you can see how immaculate this bus is. |
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| Kerry's late bay next to Gary's cross over bay, the variety of vehicles at the Outcast meet is always varied. |
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| Kevin came along in his lovely 2002 T4, Kevin did pre warn me that his normally immaculate bus was somewhat dirty with general road grime, but at least it shows this bus does get used. |
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| Kevin's bus is a long wheelbase, twin sliding door model finished is an off white over green. The custom side step and tinted windows help to make this bus stand out. |
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| Even covered in dirt this bus still looks good. The 4 tip exhaust and the custom badge on the tailgate help to make this bus unique as does... |
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| ... The buses name, 'The Grinch' hand painted onto the tailgate which Kevin had done recently. |
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| The club line up is starting to fill out, the white Beemer belongs to the owner of the trailered bay window, who's name I have also forgotten, Sorry, .... It must be an age thing.! |
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| The warm evenings mean it doesn't get dark until about 9.00pm which always increases the number of vehicles attending the club meet. |
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| There is nothing better than a car park full of the Outcast VW Club's owners Volkswagen's. |
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| Late comer Sam and his partner Amy, arrived in Sam's 1970 off road beetle, with the newly painted green wheels. Sam and his dad have at least 4 red Volkswagen's between them and they all have had their wheels painted in this fluorescent green paint, it must have been a job lot they purchased in the sale.! |
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| Sam's very distinctive beetle. I recently wrote a blog review on Sam and Kevin's off road trialling exploits, if you missed that blog entry check out 'My Blog Archive' to the left of this page. |
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| Sam's beetle sandwiched between two buses. A nice variety of vehicles, and all of varying styles always make for a good club meet. |
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| Sam's work colleague came down for the first time in his immaculate MK1 Golf Convertible. This 1990 model finished in a stunning white looked amazing and it looked all original. |
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| This soft top Golf was super straight and super clean. The hood looked as though it was new. |
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| The side profile of this classic 1990's car. These cars in this condition are getting hard to find. |
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| The immaculate white paint looked amazing, and the reflection from the super straight body panels was almost perfect . |
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| The club line up from the right... |
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| The club line up in the middle... |
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| And the club line up to the left. A great effort by all the club members who attended this month to make the variety of vehicles so varied. That was the The Outcast VW Club's monthly meet for May. Overall a very enjoyable evening with some cool Volkswagen's and some even cooler people. If you own a Volkswagen, and if you can get down to the Charter Pub on the first Thursday of the month, we'd love to have you come and join us, what have you got to loose? |
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