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| This 1967 type 3 variant was stunning. It was finished in a lovely coat of bright white paint that really suited the body lines. This car was super straight and looked as solid as the day it came off the production line. |
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| I do like these variants, or more commonly known as the squareback. The blinds in the rear windows and the super shiny chrome work helped to make this lovely car stand out. |
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| This lovely 1965 split screen bus was painted in an unusual two tone colour combination, but it worked really well. The bronze bottom half with the brilliant white top looked amazing. |
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| You can see just how straight this old splitty is by the reflection down the side of the bus. The twin roof racks and the chrome Empi 5 spoke wheels were both nice additions. |
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| Amongst all the shiny buses and bugs I spotted this matt green high riding 1988 T25 panel van and I just had to have a closer look. I loved the look of this van with it's 'off road adventurer' look. The twin spot lights, the big off road tyres and the roof rack looked great and purposeful. |
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| I do like the T25's, and this one appealed to me no end. I could easily have something like this to run around in. |
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| This blog is primarily an air cooled themed blog. I do have a water cooled T4 myself, but I try where possible to keep the blog true to it's roots and feature mainly air cooled vehicles. However this 2001 white T4 just had to be included as I liked it so much. The colour scheme, the wheels, the ride height and cool windscreen visor all pushed the right buttons for me. |
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| Lovely painted steel wheels with huge off road tyres looked fantastic. |
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| The overall look of this bus was just about perfect in my eyes. This really was a nice bus. |
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| This lovely pastel yellow and white split screen looked great in it's unusual colour scheme. This early sixties bus really did look solid and apart from the colours looked pretty much original. |
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| It was nice to see a 181 Trekker painted in the colours it was designed to be in. These 181's were designed to be used by the German Army and this one even had the hood which you don't see very often. |
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| Kevin's lovely twin slider long wheel base T4 and my trusty old 1969 microbus parked up enjoying the sunshine on the South coast at the BeachBugging show. |
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| This gorgeous 1968 mercury cougar looked an immaculate example of this American muscle car. The '68 was the first generation of the Cougar and either had the 289 cubic inch or the 390 cubic inch V8 motor. |
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| In 1968 the Cougar featured the front and rear side marker lights. This car really was immaculate and just like new. |
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| The dark green body was perfectly straight and the paint finish was amazing. It is always nice to American classics at a VW show, especially when they are as nice as this Cougar. |
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| I spotted this gorgeous pair of early beetle's parked up in between some later T4's. Both these bugs although the were different styles were both stunning and typical of the quality of vehicle's you get to see that this show. |
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| There were many traders at the show selling everything you could imagine and a few of them even arrived in their cool Volkswagen's. |
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| A lovely dove blue crew cab pick up with the Fuchs style wheels looked great. I was so busy looking at the bus I didn't notice what they were selling!. |
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| If you have a roof rack on your beloved VW, the trend is to have a retro suitcase strapped onto it. This seller had just a few suitcases for sale. |
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| I spotted this awesome toy on one of the stands, it's a toy 1957 Pro Street Chevrolet car. I was tempted to buy it, but managed to control myself as I have enough 'impulse buys' at the moment. |
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| I've seen this 1971 Volksrod at a few shows this year and it still looks great. I love the look of a Volksrod and the paint scheme on this one helps to make it stand out from the crowd. |
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| The big and little wheels, roof chop, colour scheme and those gorgeous Fuchs style wheels all add to the overall look. |
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| Many years ago BeachBuggin was all about the beach buggies and even today there is always a fantastic selection to browse. |
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| There were too many to photograph them all, but this one caught my eye. I have to admit I don't know what body this is, but I did like it. The roof with the roof rack looked great as did the small orange perspex windscreen. |
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| The styling and colour scheme took me back to my childhood when you could get the 'Hot Wheels' cars that were always had over the top styling and outrageous paint jobs. |
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| Another vehicle I have seen before is this gun metal grey sandrail. It's styling makes it look as though it has just come from the Mad Max movie and it looks great. |
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| Being different helps to make your vehicle, regardless of what it is, stand out and this really does stand out. |
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| Beach buggies with many different body styles / shapes and colours all gathered in one area for the show. They certainly did draw the crowds in. |
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| A perfect reflection in the chrome hubcap on the deep dish wheel of another beach buggy. |
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| The red buggy looked good with it's unusual body style, and it's white roof with the red flame design. I did like the external spun ally fuel tank sitting on the back. |
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| Beach buggies galore. It was great to look at all the different styles and modifications each owner has made to make their buggy unique. |
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| This lovely 182 safari was totally immaculate. This vehicle really was is a 'as new' condition. |
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| These trekkers have a very basic interior but then you don't buy a trekker for comfort, you buy it for style, for passion and the history. |
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| A stunning paint job on a stunning looking car. This silver and black Karmann Ghia was beautiful. I thought I got more photos of this lovely car, but obviously not. Doh! |
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| From the beautiful Karmann (above) to this fantastic RAT looking single cab split screen pick up. This really was a ratty bus that looked brilliant. This old pick up was a lovey looking bus. |
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| The yellow is an unusual colour for a single cab, but it works so well. I really did like this. |
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| Another RAT looking split screen, but this time it's a lovely lowered red panel van. The RAT look is very popular in the U.K. at the moment and it's easy to see why looking at this splitty. |
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| This is another car I have seen on several occasions before, and like the others I've seen before it still looks just as good as it did the first time I saw it. |
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| This lovely Volksrod has too many accessories to list here, suffice to say you could spend ages just looking around this bug. I'm not sure if you can see in this photo, but the rear quarter trim is actually a saw blade. |
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| The interior has also had an accessory overload. I did like the 1970's chain link steering wheel and the super tall gear lever and the leopard print seat covers, and the door cards. |
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| This pastel blue and white splitty was just one of the hundreds of split screens that attended the show. They ranged from show winning standard to the RAT look, and I think this bus is somewhere in between. It looked like a good honest and solid bus. |
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| Just a handful of the beetle's in the line up at BeachBuggin. There were bugs from almost every year and every conceivable style. |
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| Here is another Volksrod that was at the show, it's an Army green 1971 bug that has been seriously lowered and had a roof chop. |
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| These Volksrods do look good without front and rear wings, they remind me of the old fenderless hot rods.. maybe that's why I like these Volkrods so much. |
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| The interior was quite mild compared to the previous Volksrod (above). The view looking out of that chopped screen must be great while driving this car around the streets. |
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| This stunning all white 1971 single cab early bay looked gorgeous. This pick up really was immaculate and riding at what looked like stock height. I did like the small front lights just above the indicators, which I assume are side lights? |
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| You can see just how straight and clean this old '71 really is. This lovely truck was in a just like new condition. |
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| From one extreme to another was this very patina'd 1969 Westy. The faded paint really did look good as did the white painted steel wheels with white wall tyres. |
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| Patina buses are in fashion over here at the moment and it's easy to see why looking at this lovely bus. I did like the opening rear screen and the roof ladder on this imported bus. |
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| Just because your bus has patina, that doesn't mean you can't have lovely painted wheels with chrome hubcaps that give off a near perfect reflection of the pick up parked up next to you. So that was the second instalment about the BeachBuggin show. If you missed the first instalment simply click on 'My blog archive' at the top left of this page. The third and final instalment will be next Saturday where you can see a gorgeous 356 Speedster, a few American classic cars, more lovely old bugs and buses the the infamous 'Marmite' split screen so be sure to come back next Saturday. |
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