VW on the south coast France/Spain

For the last 2 days I went for a tour of the Basque country to visit my sister. Along the high street of St Jean De Luz I saw this combi. Funky bus, where the kids where putting there head through the windows.

This is the port of St Jean De Luz

Surf Shop ad.

Biarritz Beach.

On the sea front, this morning, I have saw these 3 Bay Windows that had spent the night on the sea front. The first 2 where local and the last one had English plates but I couldn't see the owners

Nice view after a night in the van. What a spot...

A few surf boards on the roof, that's the spirit..

This one had a Autometer monster tach, and judging by the exhaust it had a big motor too.

A few Km from there I had to stop again on the side of the road. It's now a splitty, more exactly a 1966 crew cab.

With safari windows.

And Porsche wheels. Cool Man. It could do with a bit of slam action from T2D but hey....

Descending to Handaye, a few hundred yards to Spain I spotted this castle facing the Atlantic ocean.

Handaye marina.

Spanish Bay Crew cab in Handaye.

They like the standard height here :-)

On the way back to Pau I went through Espelette in the heart of the Basque country. It's really amazing because all the houses have peppers attached to the windows. look here, it's interesting http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/espelette1.html

Day out in Spain

I went to Jaca in Spain for the day and this is the only aircooled stuff I could find.

Ola, Que tal? How is it hanging dude?

Barn find

I am in France for the week and look what I have find. Lot's of goodies in a barn. I am not telling you where it is. Ah and there are lots more.

old rusty beetle

in the bush...

Some factory safari

I could only see 3 :-( but hey they are safari ;-)

ready to go engine. I wish!!!

Oh a 4 in 1 exhaust.

heads, pistons, dynamo, drums....

A puma adjustable front beam.

bits

nice 1961 splitty

and some more bits

oh an alternator.

and more bits

oh interesting, I can smell a flat 4.

oh I think I have found a 1600cc case

oops, wazat !!!

I knew I could smell an engine, 1835cc twin weber and street eliminator heads. :-) I should nick it to put in my bus back in uk. It will have a serious attitude with that at the back !!!

Oh another splitty.

Hey, I forgot to say that the barn is my dad's and these are some of the bits I have collected when I was there 15 years ago. The beetle is waiting for me and I should really nick the engine to put in my bus. The one above is a 59 and it's now in Wales. Darren came to pick it up last year. It should be back on the road soon...

;-)

Southend on Sea - Day at the beach

Bit of sunshine, Bank Holiday, It has to be done... lets go to the beach..

Southend Sea Front.

Tesoro has Landed on the moon

I was a bit bored tonight so I tried to Photoshop my combi.

The 3 Amigos.

Sunday afternoon chilled out at the pub, to catch up with what we've all done with our vans.

Line up at the pub.

Lucy's & Darren's 1963 15 Windows.

Andy's new 1960 Double door Panel.

Volksworld Stonor Park

This month in the September issue of Volksword there is an article about the Stonor show. Here is a picture of my bus. That's cool. It's the 4th time this year, and the picture is the biggest so far. It's also an hat trick because it's the 3rd time in 3 issues July, August and September...

September issue

Here I am, and the 15 windows is my mates Darren & Lucy's.

Autometer shift light

I was a bit bored this weekend so I decided to connect my freshly bought Autometer Shift Light.

I first connected a wire to the "-" of the coil and also connected 1 wire to the after contact. I only have the test pill, which turn on the light @3000 RPM but I will get some new ones with the tachometer I have ordered.