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| When you arrive at a VW show and one of the first buses you see is a slammed patina'd bay, you just know it's going to be a good day. This really was one cool looking bus. |
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| Even before paying my £10 entrance fee and entering the show I noticed that the public car park was like a VW show itself. This pair of early beetles looked great in the morning sunshine. |
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| Another vehicle in the public cat park was this awesome early bay Doka. This velvet green ( I think) double cab really was clean and straight and the single colour, including the roof really made this bus stand out. |
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| You can see just how clean this doka really was from this photo. Look at the tail gate and the back of the bus, that really was a fantastic reflection from the perfectly straight body panels and the perfectly applied coat of paint. |
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| From one extreme to another, but equally as nice in it's own right was this super cool looking early split screen 13 window. I loved how original this bus looked. |
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| Another stock looking split was this 1967 bus. Again this bus had plenty of real patina and with those stock wheels and the what looked to be original interior this old bus got my attention. |
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| I was certainly getting my patina fix at Stanford Hall, as this gorgeous early split oval shows. |
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| This lovely bug looked cool with it's slammed stance, and those shiny Porsche wheels looked great against the paitina'd body panels. |
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| This type 3 fastback was up for sale, and although it had seen better days I'm sure someone at the show struck a deal with the owner. |
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| Although the dreaded rust had taken its toll on virtually all the body panels, I'm sure the £1000 ($1300 approx) asking price was too good for someone to resist. |
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| One of the many catering vendors at the show had this amazing converted split screen bus that they used as a mobile bar. |
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| Whilst wandering around the show, I happened to bump into John who where there promoting his 'Run the Ring' VW M25 charity cruise. It was originally John's idea to have a convoy of VW's driving around the M25 London orbital motorway to raise money for charity. Now in it's 3rd year, this years event promises to be bigger and better than last year. I will be taking part in this great event for the third year running and to be honest I can't wait. You can find out more about the Run the Ring' charity cruise, and sign up for this years RTR here: https://run-the-ring.myshopify.com/ (you may need to copy and paste) |
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| Amanda, John's better half was caught striking a pose by her, sorry I mean John's Canterbury Pitt. Both John and Amanda (and all the others who help organise this event) work very hard to promote this charity event, so the least you could do is sign up and join in, right? |
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| Around the oval drive in front of Stanford Hall is where all the concourse vehicles were parked. This is where you will see some exceptional original beetle's and of course this gorgeous Hebmuller. |
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| The Hebmuller convertible, or Type 14A to give it it's official title, was only produced from 1949 - 1953 with only around 700 being produced. Out of that number only around 100 are believed to still exist. |
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| The standard and quality of the beetle's in the concourse area was incredible. Each of these beautiful cars was 99.99% original/ |
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| A lovely badge I spotted on the 'A' panel on one of the concourse beetle's. I'm guessing the car took part in a rally at the Nurburgring in 1958. |
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| Having just said that all these cars were 99.99% original, I've just seen this bug which clearly isn't.! Although it is very nice though... |
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| Early bugs from all years and all models were in the line up, it made for a fantastic display. |
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| There is just something about the shape of an early bug that looks just right, and when they are this clean and straight, and of course original then so much the better. |
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| This stunning white split oval window 1951 deluxe (Type 11D) was absolutely stunning. This gorgeous car is a South African import and a rare right hand drive model. |
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| The car was imported into the U.K. in 2008, and the present owner purchased the car in 2009. The car had had a partial restoration but the current owner carried out a full restoration, |
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| A vehicle doesn't necessarily have to be painted and shiny to be desirable, as this early bug proves. I did like the look of this car, the patina'd hood with the leather strap across it and the single yellow spot light helped this bug stand out. |
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| But there again, if you do have a painted and shiny vehicle, you could give off some awesome reflections like the reflection in the side of this early bug of Stanford Hall. |
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| This super cool looking Jungle green (L315) 1952 standard beetle (Type 11E) was delivered on 30th July 1952 to 151 Vehicle COY at Lippstadt for use by the British Forces. There is anecdotal evidence that this very car was used to extract poor unfortunates from East Germany through 'Checkpoint Charlie'. |
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| The car returned to the U.K. in 1962 when the Military Chaplin, who owned the car returned home to Lincolnshire. The car was striped down in preparation for a restoration, which never happened. The current owner purchased the car as boxes of bits and spent the next 3 years putting all those bits together into what you see here. |
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| This stunning 1960's Porsche 356B looked great in it's all white paint. The 356B was produced from 1960 - 1963 and differed from the previous 356A with various body modifications. |
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| One of the body modifications was replacing the single engine grille to twin grilles. Other small modifications included an external fuel filler cap and a larger rear window. |
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| The super shiny hub cap on the 356 gave a great reflection. |
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| The split screen van club were at Stanford Hall and they came in force with hundreds upon hundreds of split screen buses of all descriptions and years turning up. |
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| Ooh, yes please! I did like this high top split. A few years ago these were the ugly ducklings of the split screen world but now these are so desirable, and it's easy to see why. |
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| The perfectly straight rear panels, and the depth of this paint on this split screen provided a perfect reflection of all the other buses that were parked in close proximity. |
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| OK, I was trying to be artistic with this photo, I tried to get the reflection of the split identical on both sides... it almost worked, but its still a good photo. |
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| Stanford Hall is one of the split screen van club's biggest meetings. There were so many splits to look at, and each one was different. |
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| A fantastic variety from all years made for a great display, and a great photo opportunity. |
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| The early summer sun did get quite hot, and this lovely little fellow had the right idea, get in the back of a splitty with the rear hatch open and have a snooze. |
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| The weather at Stanford hall couldn't have been better, glorious sunshine all day made for a very relaxed chilled out show. |
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| I do like a shiny bus that gives off a nice reflection of another bus. |
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| This T25 Syncro has to be one of my favourite vehicles at the show. Why? well because for one it's all original and never been butchered about, and two the owner who I had a quick chat with has no intention of changing anything. |
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| This gorgeous van has very low mileage and as original as it left the factory. How many buses do you see that have never had any changes to them? |
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| The owner was saying that he has no intention of selling it, and intends to keep it just the way it is. The inside is just as clean as the outside. So that was part one of three about this great one day show. Next week will be the second instalment where you can see more quality Volkswagen's including more buses, bugs and Karmann's, so be sure to come back next Saturday. |
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