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| There is always a great selection of colourful air-cooled V-dubs at the Slough Swapmeet. Here, 3 generations of the humble VW bus were all parked up together. |
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| Buses of all descriptions, from the RAT look to show winning standard, from standard height to lowered and everything in between can be seen at the Swapmeet. |
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| It really was great to walk around the leisure centre car park and see not only classic air-cooled VW's but also plenty of water cooled vehicles. |
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| This early bug looked fantastic with it's lowered stance. It looks as though it has a narrowed front beam as those wheels sit nicely under the front wings. The roofrack with all it's accessories looked cool. |
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| A RAT looking bug parked next to a gorgeous show winning standard bus makes for a great display in the winter sunshine. |
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| The low winter sunshine made taking good photos quite tricky but it did provide great reflections on this pastel yellow Karmann Ghia from windows on a bus parked nearby. |
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| A better photo of this gorgeous pastel yellow Karmann. This car has been seriously lowered and those Fuchs style wheels looked the right choice to compliment the overall look of this KG. |
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| Even though all the photos have a clear blue sky and the sun is shining the temperature didn't get much above freezing. This guy was warming his hands from the cooker on his cool looking split screen. |
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| New(ish) and old parked up together. Whatever is your favourite VW bus, you'll be sure to see it, and many more at the Slough Swapmeet. |
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| A great diversity of Volkswagen's makes for an interesting stroll around the car park. |
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| It seems that red / orange are the 'in colours' at the moment... It was good to see a great selection of air cooled vehicles, and the best bit is that no 2 vehicles were the same. |
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| Row upon row of classic air cooled ( and water cooled) Volkswagen's of all years, condition and style made for an enjoyable couple of hours wandering around in the sunshine. |
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| This gorgeous early bug oozed coolness. I did like the patina paint and the air conditioning unit attached to the door. The roof rack was another cool accessory that suited this bug. |
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| The super low stance with those polished wheels looked great as did that big chrome exhaust. |
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| A nice photo showing some of the bay window buses at the show. Just as I took this I heard a bus approaching and thought it would look good to get whatever it was in the photo too. |
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| The same shot but with a two tone green split screen just cruising past. |
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| This gorgeous cherry red Karmann Ghia is owned by a guy called Andrew who is a member of 'The Wolfsburg Weed Huggers' VW club. |
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| This really is a lovely clean and straight KG as the photo shows. These are such a good looking cars with a timeless shape that still looks good today. These will never go out of fashion. |
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| OK, I know this isn't a VW and I'm not even sure if they were at the leisure centre for the swap meet or not but I just had to take some photos of this Mini Scamp. The Scamp is a kit car based on the classic British Mini and using most of the components of the Mini. |
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| The first Scamp kits were available from 1969 and I believe they are still trading today. They were available in several formats including: a van, pick up, estate and either long or short wheelbase. |
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| As I mentioned several times in this 3 part blog review, it was November and freezing cold so the guys that came down in this door and windowless kit deserve some sort of medal, or a warm blanket and a cup of hot chocolate! |
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| Nice and shiny or patina'd, however you like your ride you'll be sure to find it in the leisure centre car park. |
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| This super low 1970 early bay virtually sat on the tarmac it was that low! This is one cool imported bus that looked even better with it's patina'd original paint. |
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| Inside the leisure centre the place was packed with stalls selling OEM new/old stock and new stock. There were also many guys selling parts from their garages that they no longer required. This is a great place to find those hard to find bits needed for your winter project in the garage. |
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| The place does get very crowded as these photos from 2015 show and if you look hard you can find some real bargains. |
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| On my way to the swapmeet I passed a lay-by with a pile of chopped logs that someone had cut down to make way through the woods. I thought that would make a good photo with my 1969 microbus parked in front of it, so on the way home I stopped off. |
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| I like these photos in front of the pile of logs as it's something a bit different. |
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| This photo is supposed to be 'arty'. Not sure if it worked or not, but I like this picture. So that was my 3 part blog review of the Slough Swapmeet 2016. If you missed parts 1 & 2 you can find them in 'My Blog Achive' at the top left of this page. Overall the swapmeet was another fantastic day out. There were hundreds of people that attended, most of them in a VW of some description. The hall was packed with stalls and there was some good bargains to be found. If you live in the south of England I suggest you visit this one day show as you won't be disappointed. This was the last blog review for the 2016 season, next weeks blog review is all about the 'Campermart' show which will be the first VW show for 2017 that I attend, so be sure to come back next Saturday to read all about it. |
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