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| As I wandered around I saw numerous slammed bugs and buses and I thought I'd seen it all, that was until I saw this 1969 lime green Westy that literally was, sat on the grass. |
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| You physically cannot go any lower and as Uncle Jesse (from The Dukes of Hazzard) would say, this is lower than a rattle snakes belly in a tyre track, and let's face it.. Uncle Jesse doesn't lie! |
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| The super narrow front beam add to the buses low look. I did like the bright green colour and the humorous take on the Westfalia logo on the poptop. |
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| The exhaust exited through the rear bumper, this to me means that the bus may have had the engine and gearbox raised enabling the body to sit lower than normal. |
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| I did like the look of the matt black chopped and channelled Volksrod. Those tall wheels and white wall tryes really suited this old rod |
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| There really is nothing better than a chopped bug without fenders, they just look so tough. |
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| From the back you can see just how severe that roof chop is. The hot rod tail lights were a nice touch that suited the rod. |
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| From the front you can see just how close the tip of the bonnet is to scraping on the tarmac. |
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| Another neat touch was the hot rod style head lights with the chrome centre bullet. |
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| This 1956 oval window rag top beetle caught my eye due to it's striking colour. This old bug has been around since the 1980's, albeit in various guises and colours. Today the car has had a front disc brake conversion and a 2" narrowed beam. |
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| This old retro bug also has over sized wings with frenched tail lights. This car is actually a 1956 body sitting on a 1968 floor pan. |
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| I do like panel vans, and yellow is my favourite colour so this 1971 van ticked all the right boxes. This really was a nice clean van. |
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| The big block of a single colour shouldn't work but somehow it does on this van. I did like the contrasting black on the wheels and bumpers. |
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| The show was held at Santa Pod raceway so you'd expect to see a few race cars, and this is one of them. A lovely old oval window beetle. |
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| This old bug looked tough with it's nose down stance, those huge rear wheels and that massive stinger exhaust sticking out the back! |
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| I'm not sure how big the motor was, but the twin carbs on this motor look big enough to me. |
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| Another race car was 'Strip Poker', an early bug with what looks like a glass fibre front end to help reduce weight. |
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| The stance of this bug is all out racer, and those custom wheels suit the car perfectly. |
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| If a race car, any race has wheelie bars sticking out the back there isn't any need to ask if it's fast or not as they are there for a reason. |
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| The engine bay looks somewhat cramped due to that massive turbo. |
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| This stunning kit car, named the Phoenix featured on my blog a few weeks back and as it was at the Big Bang show, and as I like it so much, here it is again. |
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| Back in the 1970's the plans for these kit cars cost around $15 and that was all you got, a set of plans. The kit sits on either a splitty or early bay chassis and the body panels would all have to been made by hand using foam encased plastic. |
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| I think these may be like Marmite, either you love it or hate it, personally I love it. The sides fold down to create a huge living space inside. |
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| Santa Pod is the home of European drag racing and there was plenty of racing going on all week -end. |
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| Watching the racing in the sunshine is a great way to kill a few hours with a few surprising wins for some of the racers. |
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| Another way to kill some time is to watch the monster trucks. Santa Pod has it's resident monster truck called Podzilla, but they also have this passenger carrying truck called Red Dragon. |
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| This truck gives the paying public an insight what it is like to crush cars as it drives around the arena in this V8 6.5 litre beast. |
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| This sign written 1969 double cab pick up looked great and like a true workhorse. It goes to show that your ride doesn't have to be nice and shiny to stand out. |
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| Parked up near to me in the day visitors parking area was this trio of cool looking classic bugs. |
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| All three were mid to early 1960's and each one looked cool in it's own right. I'm not sure if they all arrived together or whether they just got lucky and ended up parking next to each other. |
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| This immaculate 1967 bright red beetle looked awesome in the sunshine. The chrome trim added just the right amount of sparkle to compliment that gorgeous red paint on this stunning bug. |
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| This gorgeous 1965 deep burgundy and gloss black split screen stopped me in my tracks. The unusual colour choice helped this old bus stand out as did the super straight body. |
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| A better photo showing the two tone colours in all their glory. The polished Fuchs style rims looked fantastic against the burgundy paint. |
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| This U.S. imported bus really was straight, just look at the reflections in all the photos. |
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| Walking through the camping area I spotted this gorgeous pair of beetles parked up, and I just had to get some photos. |
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| The first was this gorgeous pastel yellow 1965 bug with painted steel wheels and polished hub caps that suit this classic car so well. |
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| This lovely bug looks to be riding at stock height that suited the overall look as did the polished chrome towel rail bumpers. |
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| The second beetle was this gorgeous teal or similar coloured bug. This also had painted steel wheels except that this one has been lowered all round. |
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| You can see just how low this bug really was from this angle and how nice those painted steel wheels looked. |
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| The whole of Santa Pod was crammed with top quality Volkswagens both air and water cooled. |
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| This early 1960's split screen kombi looked gorgeous in it's unusual two tone colour scheme. This really was a lovely looking bus, I did like the twin roof racks and the single spot light fixed to the front rack, and of course the colours. |
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| Not all the vehicles were straight and shiny as this cool looking 1972 T3 square back shows. I think every panel was scrapped or dented and also a different colour... but it looked fantastic. |
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| The type 3 ( all variants) are really cool cars that we just see enough of, so stumbling across this RAT looking square was a real find. |
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| To finish this weeks blog we have the side profile of a stunning all white early bay. This bus was so clean and straight it was amazing, you can just make out the reflection down the side of the bus. (if you click on the photo, it makes it bigger!) So that was the second of four installments on this great weekend show. The next installment will be next Saturday where you can see plenty more bugs and buses and so much more, so be sure to come back next week. |
