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| Tonya and I had arranged to meet Claude at 08.00am at the local Tesco superstore so we could get an early start. The sun was shining and Claude's '58 low light Karmann Ghia looked great in the crisp morning sunshine. (although in these photos it's currently parked up in the shade!) |
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| My 1969 Microbus and Claude's '58 parked up with lovely clear blue skies, it's not bad weather seeing it was the first day of November in the U.K. as normally by now the rainy season is here. |
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| A nice photo of my bus and Claude's '58 that looks really small compared to my bus. The '58 has been seriously lowered which helps it's low and very desirable stance. |
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| Whilst I was taking some photo's and Claude and Tonya were chatting I looked across the superstore car park, and who should I see, but another fellow Outcast VW Club member Colin, in his cool looking red early bay. |
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| A quick zoom in to get a better look at Colin's early bay. Colin has recently had the black and white chequered design painted onto his roof which looks great. Colin saw us and came over, he was also going to Slough, but had to collect his Dad first so he couldn't drive down with us so we agreed to meet up down there later in the day. |
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| Colin had not seen Claude's new acquired ride, and Claude was only too happy to chat about his new '58 low light. |
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| After a while we set off, Claude led the way for a brief time so I could get some photo's of his Karmann Ghia from behind. The sun was just starting to rise and it looked promising for the rest of the day. |
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| On a by-pass I overtook Claude, not because the KG is slow but because whenever we have a cruise somewhere I'm normally the designated lead vehicle, and I couldn't resist taking a cheeky photo of the low light as we went past. (its a shame my door mirror got in the way!) |
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| A nice photo of Claude travelling behind my Microbus as we head towards Slough. Tonya kindly took this cool photo of Claude looking out of my rear window. |
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| As the lead vehicle you have to lead the convoy through all sorts of conditions and I had to lead our little convoy through the morning mist which was quite dense in places on the rural parts of the journey as we headed towards the swap meet. Hopefully the sun would burn off this mist in an hour or so. |
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| Unfortunately I was wrong about the sun burning off the mist, in fact the closer we got to Slough the worse it became. In Slough had to stop at some traffic lights and I spotted this cool looking mango and white coloured split screen also heading towards the leisure centre where the swap meet was being held. |
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| The leisure centre car park does get full quite quickly but because we had arrived early, we had plenty of spaces to choose from. That splitty reversing into a parking space is in fact another mango and white bus, not the one I saw whilst sat at the traffic lights. |
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| Even though we arrived in plenty of time, the spaces allocated for 'bays' was full, so I had to park at the end of the split screen line up. As I reversed into the space I noticed a lovely 181 Trekker parked up behind me that I needed to have a better look at that... |
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| The super clean 181 Trekker, which I think I last saw at the 'Endless Summer' show back in September this year. It must have been a bit chilly driving down to the show in this very open to the elements Trekker! |
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| A lovely interior on the 181, I did like that huge tacho, and the 'Empi' foot mats. Less is more as far as the 181 interior's are concerned. |
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| This really was a super clean car, and I think it won the peoples choice for 'King of the Car Park trophy'. An award voted for by the public. |
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| Claude's Karmann Ghia parked up at the show has some good company. The '58 really does sit low at the front... just how it should be! |
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| Claude's low light also has a narrowed front beam which adds to the cool look of the early Karmann. |
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| I spotted this lovely Porsche 911 finished in a gorgeous grey paint job with a lime green stripe. I did like the vented rear side windows. |
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| A good variety of buses parked up in the cold damp misty car park of the Slough swapmeet. Air-cooled and water cooled make for a great variety of vehicles. |
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| It didn't matter the sun wasn't shining as the glow given off from this super bright yellow early bay made up for the lack of natural sun. |
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| Jonny attended the show in his '71 race Beetle which seems to have more bits added every time I see it. Jonny is a member of the Wolfsburg Weed Huggers VW Club based in Penn St. in Bucks and whose club meets I have been to many times in the past. |
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| A recent addition is the huge whale tail rear spoiler. This was specifically made for Jonny's Beetle and looks awesome. |
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| Sign writing on the side of Jonny's rear spoiler. Miss White is the name of this cool racing Bug which even has it's own facebook page. |
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| No matter what VW show, or classic car show I attend there is always one vehicle that stops me in my tracks, and this is the car that did it for me at the Slough Swapmeet. A gorgeous oval window beetle in an immaculate coat of black gloss paint. |
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| The oval rear window Beetle was produced from 1950 - 1959 and the looks of this old Volkswagen have been enhanced by the paint colour, those shiny 5 spoke wheels and the stance of this lovely bug. This really is a nice looking car. |
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| A gorgeous Porsche 356A finished in a single coat of off white paint. The 356A was produced from 1955 - 1959 and is easily identified by the lack of fuel filler cap in the top of the front wing and... |
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| ...by the single vent in the deck lid. This really was a lovely looking car. The matching painted bumpers were as original and how Porsche produced the car which looks great. |
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| Looking into the mist along a row of split screen buses. Each one was different in colour, stance, year and of course body style not to mention all the accessories each one had. |
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| One of the traders brought along this early bay which was for sale. I didn't find out any info on this bus, but it didn't look too bad. |
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| A lovey pair of beetle's parked up in the mist. I did like the look of the purple one with it's 'Centerline' wheels and also the neat old skool pinstriping on the brown one. |
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| A close up of the cool pinstriping around the headlight surround on the brown bug. I'm just getting into pinstriping and this shows that good pinstriping doesn't always have to symmetrical. |
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| Another gorgeous oval bug with those super cool looking yellow head lights with a matching yellow spot light. I did like the overall original look of this beetle. |
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| This oval was so clean and straight, and the black gloss paint gives an almost perfect reflection on those super straight body panels. I did like the rear window blind, which was very period and looked so cool. |
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| This 1959 split screen panel van was gorgeous, the patina was real and not from a rattle can. It must have taken years to get a paint finish like that. I did like the door mirror brackets which really suited this patina van. |
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| The real patina covered virtually every panel. I really hope the owner doesn't paint this lovely old splitty as it would ruin the cool look of the van. |
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| A good variety of bay windows of all descriptions and styles. Each one looked as good as the last in it's own right. |
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| This RAT looking late bay crew cab looked great with it patina paint. I did like the 3 bow roof rack and those huge spot lights and the truck style door mirrors. |
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| This lovely pair of black over red split screen buses looked great parked up next to each other. If you look closely the similarity ends with with the body colours. |
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| I have seen this moss / algae covered bug on numerous occasions and it always looks the same.. and I think it's great. I have no idea how the owner keeps it looking so tatty, but I hope he doesn't change it, as I never get bored of looking at this RAT looking beetle. |
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| A good variety of beetles adorned the car park. It really was a good turn out of vehicles, not only bugs, but also bays and splits and lots of other VW's on such a damp misty Sunday morning. |
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| I'm not sure if this is supposed to be the split screen line up or the bay window line up, but I suppose it doesn't really matter. The amount of vehicles that braved the cold damp conditions to drive along to the swap meet was amazing. |
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| This early split in a very RAT looking yellow 'skool bus' paint job looked fantastic. |
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| I did like the rear lights on this bus and the cool sign writing. This bus really did get my attention. |
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| Split screens and bays parked up side by side at the Slough Swapmeet. It's good to see such a diverse variety of vehicles in one place. |
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| Another good variety of Volkswagen's, this time in the bay window line up. Numerous styles and colours and each one different from the last. |
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| My 1969 Microbus had some good company in the swapmeet car park, a lovely Porsche 912 finished in a gorgeous grey colour parked up next to me a bit later in the morning. |
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| I did like this early bay crew cab pick up in a very similar colour to my bus. This crew cab wasn't flash or fancy, it was just a very nice and desirable bus. |
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| Looking down the line up of beetles at Slough. Each one was different from the last, but just as nice in it's own right. The Teal coloured beetle belongs to John, a friend of mine on facebook, I would have said hello but I've only just realised I took a photo of him and his bug! So that was part 1 of the Slough Swapmeet review. Part 2 will be next Saturday where I continue to look around the car park and have a look inside the venue to see what's for sale so make sure you check out my blog next week. |
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