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| Stuart and his son Tim came along in his 1970 green beetle. This is Stuart's daily driver but he also owns a 1971 early bay. Working on both the bus and the bug is a bit of a "busmans holiday" as Stuart owns a Volkswagen repair shop, yet he never seems to get to work on his own vehicles as he's always too busy. |
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| A slightly blurred photo of Stu's bug. The cool looking period roof rack is a nice accessory. |
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| Amanda and her partner Simon popped down to the club meet in Amanda's new style beetle. Amanda was saying she has big plans for this unassuming 2004 bug, which included a hot rod look paint job. |
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| I hope Amanda sticks to her plans for this car as the idea she had would look wicked. Both Amanda and Simon are true VW fans, as they both have 2 VW's. Amanda has this bug and a mk3/4 golf, while Simon has a T4 and a LT35 (the one that has the heavy duty suspension, apparently!?) that he uses a daily work vehicle. |
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| John was early to arrive at the club meet in his 1960 mango and white split screen. This bus really is an immaculate bus and no expense has been spared in getting this bus to a show standard finish. |
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| John's bus has perfectly straight body panels and the paint is flawless. The twin yellow spot lights mounted on the colour coded towel rail bumper look great. |
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| The lights in the car park make John's bus look more lime green rather than the gorgeous mango colour it really is, but even so it still looks great. You can just see how straight the sides of this old splitty really are in this photo. |
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| I do like this photo of the trio of buses parked up in the Charter pub car park. |
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| My freshly painted 1969 microbus. I haven't got used to looking at my bus and seeing a nice shiny bus, as she was very RAT looking for many years. |
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| The new colour choice velvet green, the belt trim and painted bumpers all help to make my bus very different (and so much better) from how she used to look. |
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| My 1969 microbus parked alongside Colin's red 1970 early bay. Both buses are U.S. imports and both looked stunning parked up. |
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| Colin's bay is his daily driver, come rain or shine throughout they year.This is a testament on the reliability of his bus. The newly painted chequered painted roof looks so cool as do the truck style mirrors which provide so much better vision from the original standard items. |
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| Colin and his family use the bus as much as possible and seem to go everywhere in it. Colin's bus also has the belt trim which I think just finishes off an early bay. Colin's trim is original and mine is a reproduction item, but they still look the same from a distance as the original belt trim seems to fit so much better. |
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| Colin's '70 and my '69 parked up at the Charter pub in Aylesbury. This photo looks as though it was a nice evening for a club meet, but as it's early March it was very cold and still gets very dark early in the evening. |
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| Sam and his partner Amy came along to the club meet in his awesome looking Baja. This very distinctive baja gets noticed every where it goes, and always gets positive comments from both the public and other VW owners. |
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| The cool LED rear lights are a nice touch which suit the cars look, as do those huge rear tyre's which should provide plenty of traction when this baja goes 'off road' |
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| In typical baja style the engine is exposed and gives the car a tough look. Those bobbed rear wings not only provide plenty of ground clearance but also help in the looks department. |
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| As you would expect the baja sits high to give plenty of ground clearance, The professionally painted bodywork looks awesome and makes this little baja really stand out from the others. (just a shame about the parking Sam!!) |
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| A close up of the blue sparkling paint with matching blue pinstripes around the main blue sections. This really is a cool looking car. |
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| Sam has the baja up for sale, it needs a small amount of TLC, (but then again what air-cooled VW doesn't !) If you fancy owning this fantastic looking baja give Sam a call on the above number and make him an offer and tell him you saw the advert on the 'my1969vwmicrobus' blog. |
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| We had a new visitor arrive this month, I think his name was Andy and he had this very clean T5 in white with tinted windows. |
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| I didn't really have time to find out much about him or his T5, but he was invited down by another club member. I do like these T5's. |
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| Looking along a line of buses at the Outcast VW clubs monthly meet. Colin's red early bay in the foreground, my velvet green bay in the middle and John's 1960 mango split screen. |
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| And now from the other end of the line.! The camera flash makes the mango paint look much lighter than it really is on John's gorgeous 1960 split screen. |
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| My 1969 VW microbus all painted and shiny at the Outcast VW club monthly meet. |
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| Colin's early bay and Sam's very distinctive '75 baja. Even though the attendance was low this month we still had a good diversity of VW's. |
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| It was a small turnout this month, but I think that's because it was cold and dark. I'm sure the attendance will pick up once the clocks go forward an hour and we start having lighter and warmer evenings. So that was the March Outcast VW Club monthly meet. Not the best attendance we have had at a club meet, but still very enjoyable with some good friends. The VW season kicks off in earnest in a few weeks with Dub Aid over the weekend of 18th - 20 March and then the real season opener for me, the Volksworld show over the weekend of 1st - 3rd April. I can't wait for the show season to start again as it seems like it's been a long cold Volkswagen-less winter. |
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