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| Upon entering the Volksworld Show, the first bus that caught my eye was this gorgeous 1970 early bay deluxe microbus adventure wagon. This bus is the rare left hand drive sunroof model. The bus sits nice and high thanks to Bilstien shocks and runs on 16" steel wheels with BF Goodrich all-terrain tyres that give this bus an awesome look. |
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| This Californian bus was repainted by 'Paintbox', The engine is up-rated with twin carbs and a Vintage Speed stainless exhaust. The safari roof tent was a neat accessory that suited the bus. Those very retro '70's stripes make this bus stand out and finish off the look. This bus was for sale for £45,995 ($62,650 approx) |
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| Parked up next to the adventure wagon was this insane 1958 split screen single cab pick up. This creation is 'Oklahama Willy' (as it spent most of it's original life on a farm in Oklahama) and was actually built in my hometown of Aylesbury. It has a 1915cc race spec engine with a freeway flyer gearbox with rack and pinion steering and drilled and vented dual circuit disc brakes. |
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| In case the 1915cc race spec engine isn't your thing, Oklahama Willy also has a working Rolls Royce Viper 535 gas turbine engine from a BAC strike master light fighter jet mounted on the strengthened pick up bed. |
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| The turbine engine has been fully rebuilt and an afterburner added which produces an extra 45 - 50% power. The maximum power of this mad motor is just under 5000 lbs. of thrust, which converted is about 5000 BHP. The turbine burns around 30 gallons of fuel per minute on full power. The bus has run a 'demonstration' best time of 10 seconds with a top speed of about 150 MPH. |
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| Even with the lack of information about each vehicle on display, the standard of each of the show vehicles was as high as ever. This lovely '64 bug was built by Fubar 64 creations. |
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| Detailing at it's best.. even the areas you don't normally see were presented with the same high quality as the areas you do see. |
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| You can see just how straight and clean this gorgeous beetle really is from this photo. |
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| Wow! There's not much else to add. I couldn't find out much about this awesome drag beetle but looking this good I didn't need to. |
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| This beetle's radical appearance can only be described as a 'Marmite' look... (either you love it or hate it!) and personally I love it. The apple green flames against that purple paint looked fantastic. |
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| This car obviously had race intentions judging from those huge rear wheels and that massive rear spoiler. |
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| This stunning Karmann Ghia was finished in what looks like L384 Pampas green (although I could be wrong) and the whole car, including every nut and bolt was like new. |
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| The interior of the Karmann was finished to the same amazing high standard as the exterior. |
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| Another immaculate vehicle on display was this gorgeous stock looking early bay crew cab that I think came over from one of the many European exhibitors. |
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| This really was a lovely looking pick up. The single colour L282 Lotus white (I think) looked great over that super straight body. The stock ride height with the stock wheels looked perfect. |
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| This early oval window rag top beetle was another vehicle on display of outstanding quality. The perfectly straight body was finished in what looks like L53 sealing wax red... Just look how clean this old bug is and that amazing reflection under the front wing. |
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| The rag top, the fender skirts and the rear window blind were all nice additions that helped this early bug stand out. |
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| This stunning 1954 ragtop beetle was totally immaculate. The engine is the original 30hp unit with a 356 oil filter and lightened flywheel. The car was painted in that gorgeous L276 ultra maroon metallic paint. |
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| The ragtop has a 2" narrowed front beam, with CB drop spindles with Koni shocks on all four corners. Those lovely wheels are original Empi radar wheels with Excelsior tyres. |
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| Another rag top beetle was this awesome split oval window bug. This really was a gorgeous car that looked just about perfect. I believe this oval won a 'Top 20 winner' award at the show. |
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| It's easy to see why this beetle won the award, it really is finished to an incredible standard. |
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| This lovely 1961 Karmann Ghia convertible was stunning. That Pacific blue (L398) paint suited the car so much and was applied flawlessly. |
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| Power for this gorgeous slammed convertible is from a street / strip 2110cc engine and turbo. The engine is mated to a Rancho pro street gearbox so it not only looks good, it'll go pretty good too ! |
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| The diversity of the show vehicles was immense, and the overall standard of the vehicles was so high as you can see in this photo. |
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| This stunning barn door bus finished in mid grey and maroon was gorgeous. The deep red roof and bumper detailing looked great against the main grey body. This slammed bus looked as though it had a narrow front beam as those Porsche wheels are tucked right under the cab. |
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| The interior was pure class and very well finished. |
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| This old bus was so straight as you can clearly see from this photo. |
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| This gorgeous 1967 beach buggy finished in Serpia brown with the hard top finished in Alpaca brown looked amazing. The original Porsche Fuchs wheels with the Dunlop vintage racing tyres looked fantastic. |
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| The dressed 1915cc engine with the twin Webber 48 ida carbs and the homemade 4 into 1 exhaust looked really trick. |
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| A fantastic diversity of air cooled vehicles were present at this years Volksworld Show. And as normal with this show, all the show vehicles were built to the highest possible standard. |
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| This late 1950's / early 1960's Porsche 356B coupé finished in orange with it's black stripe looked great. I did like the yellow head light lenses that made the front end stand out. |
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| This 356B is an early model as it only has one single grille on the engine lid. Porsche changed the design to twin grilles in 1962. The slammed stance, the lack of front and rear bumpers and the paint job made this Porsche look super tough. |
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| I did like this split screen crew cab pick up, the lowered stance with the narrow front beam gave the pick up that 'just right' look. The light blue paint was an unusual choice, but worked so well. |
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| We know that the Type 14A Hubmuller is a pretty rare car, with only about 100 still known to be in existence, so to have 4 Hebmuller's at the show was quite a treat. |
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| Production of the Hebmuller started in June 1945 and ended in 1953 with only around 700 cars being produced. The type 14A is based on the beetle as you can clearly see. |
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| These type 14A's certainly drew attention from the thousands of visitors on both days over the weekend, and it's easy to see why. |
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| The Type 14A is considered by many as the most desirable and rarest air cooled Volkwagens. This reflects in the price and with a good example you would be easily looking to pay £200,000+. |
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| There is something about a panel van that rocks my boat, and this velvet green split screen panel van did just that. It was super straight and low, and finished to the highest standard possible. |
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| This split oval window beetle in what I'd describe as a chrome yellow caught my eye for obvious reasons.. and I loved it. The paint was so much 'in your face' that you just had to stop and look at it. Of course it helped that it was a split oval, that was lowered and had a super narrow front beam. |
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| Under the show hall lights, and against the chrome blade bumpers this bug looked fantastic. The Fuchs wheels were the perfect choice for the car. |
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| This pair caught my eye, the modified body and chassis on the 1959 buggy looked great and the velvet green body with mesh grey interior looked fantastic. |
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| Although there didn't appear to be as many show vehicles as previous years, the standard was still to the same high quality as this row of beetle's proves. |
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| As I walked around the show looking at the show vehicles I was thinking 'that's nice' to almost every vehicle I saw.. then I spotted this amazing drag beetle which stopped me in my tracks. The candy apple red metal flake paint which sparkled under the bright show hall lights brought back memories of the drag cars back in the seventies. |
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| The hand painted sign writing on the doors and pin striping were very reminiscent of the early race cars back in the day. The one piece alloy wheels were also very similar to the 'centreline' wheels the old race cars used. |
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| A humorous caption on the 'A' post panel which was beautifully hand painted. |
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| The overall look of this oval window bug was just about perfect and looked so tough. The huge stinger exhaust sticking out the back must let the burnt exhaust gasses out pretty quickly! |
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| Candy metal flake paint, pin striping and hand painted sign writing on a oval window.. it really doesn't get much better than this. So that was the first of 4 instalments all about the 2018 Volksworld show. Next week will be part two where you will be able to see: More bugs and buses, a Trekker or two and a hearse split screen bus, so be sure to come back next Saturday for the 2nd instalment. |
