Repairs and modifications
New (old) car-jack for Matthias Bug
After going through an expedition in Friedrich’s storage last weekend, Matthias found a new car-jack for his bug. It took an hour to overhaul until the car-jack worked again. There were huge amounts of rust and mud, which blocked the Read more…
Meetings
Bug and Oldtimer meeting in Grein
A few people braved the bad weather and visited the meeting in upper austria.
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Another aircool ride for Flo’s collection
Flo has spontaneously bought this Trabant 600 or P60 from 1963. First he only want to polish the car, fix the brakes and complete the missing parts. Beside the P60 you can also see Friedrich’s P50 or Trabant 500 from Read more…
Videos
Luft 13 Promo
A preview of the forthcoming Luft13 film project celebrating Aircooled Volkswagens worldwide brought to you by Stephen Brooks Films
Herbie's Euro Trip
Around the World in 80 Countries
We arrived back home! Safely! Herbie made it again – and this while pulling a caravan the long way round Africa. Our dream of traveling this last missing continent (except Antarctica of course) became actually reality. Since September 2009 we Read more…
Meetings
Eggenburg 2013
This year, the VW Bug meeting in Eggenburg celebrated its 23rd anniversary. DLV visited the biggest event of its kind in Austria for the fifth time. About 550 aircooled vehicles were counted, here are some impressions.
Meetings
Bug Meeting in Orth a.d. Donau
Yesterday we stayed at the 6th Bug Meeting from the “1. Marchfelder VW Käferclub”. We had a great time there and enjoyed the day beside the VW’s hanging around, drinking beer and eating sausages. Thanks to Norbert and the whole Read more…
Meetings
1st Altblech FNC Vienna 2013
Yesterday we visited the Altblech Friday Night Cruising season opening on the parking lot of the SCS near Vienna. About 30 Old- and Youngtimer came to the monthly meeting.
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In Austria’s News Today!
The Austrian newspaper “Heute” published another article on Herbie’s World Tour today!
Trips
Pulling a IFA F9 from the former DDR to Austria
In order Flo and FloW get to Germany to bring Friedrich a new ride. He bought this IFA F9 from 1955 online. It is a three cylinder twin-stroke-engined car. The F9 is simmilar to the DKW 3=6. It takes the Read more…
Repairs and modifications
Same procedure as every year, Mister
Benjamin and Chris changed the engine oil of Georgy’s Mexican. Not worth to write about it? Normally you are right, but this time we filled in fully synthetic oil instead of the old fashioned mineral oil – hopefully Flo and Read more…
Meetings
Aircooled Spring Meet Budapest 2013 – Beetle City
DLV goes international! After our trip to London the hard core of our community celebrated revival in one bug – in Flo’s ‘97 1600i on the way to Hungary.
Meetings
VolksWorld Show 2013 Part 3/3 – Esher Hall
Almost overlooked we found our way downstairs where about 30 other Volkswagen were standing. The whole show was really amazing and that was certainly not the last time that we came to Sandown Park. Stay tuned for the Read more…
Meetings
VolksWorld Show 2013 Part 2/3 – Outdoor Area
At about 0°C and windy weather we dared to go outside where many more cars could be marvelled. Fortunately it only rained every now and then.
Meetings
VolksWorld Show 2013 Part 1/3 – Surrey Hall
During a 6-day London vacation DLV visited the annual VolksWorld Show at Sandown Park – Esher near London. It was quite a great expirience to be on a Volkswagen meeting where we’ve seen so much of rusted out and fully Read more…
Trips
London calling
Only 3 days left till the VolksWorld Show takes place, the biggest and best indoor air-cooled VW Show in the world. We will be there the whole weekend.
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Our first ‘barn find’
Benjamin and Chris heard from a guy, they met at their new hall, there is a disassembled bug stored in a barn near Korneuburg. The only details he knew, the bug is a later version, may be an export edition Read more…
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Herbie’s Touring Africa
The Austrian newspaper “Heute” just published a story on Herbie’s World Tour. You can also find the article online by following this link!
Herbie's World Tour
News from Uitenhage!
We just received an English written article by Heilie Combrinck from Uitenhage, where Domi & Zainab visited the South African Volkswagen factory and its museum, the “AutoPavilion”.
Repairs and modifications
Oops! He did it again
When Chris starts a new project, in that case the repair of his Buggy, most of the time it ends up in a complete mess.The engine needs a repair because both cylinder heads have cracks connecting the holes for the Read more…
Repairs and modifications
Caution! Freshly painted.
All parts look like they are new now. Flo can’t wait to see it put together soon!
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Kind of déjà vu
More than two years ago (December 2010) Benjamin and Chris rent a trailer to take Chris’ Autobianchis from Graz to Vienna and stored them in a container (read the full story here and here). Finally they found an affordable hall, Read more…
Repairs and modifications
Revised steering gear
Today Flo disassembled and cleaned the steering gear and column. It was hard to pull the steering arm off but now it’s seperated in parts. Underneath you can see the good condition.
Repairs and modifications
Rusty but not so bad
After cleaning all parts of the transmissionon you can see in which condition they are.And its better than we belived! They were very dirty, corroded and rusty but it could be worse. We fixed the differential with parts from Flo’s Read more…
Repairs and modifications
Condition of the transmission…
Today we opend the gearbox to have a look on the inside. We found things which doesn’t belong to a transmission. It is full of water, sand an old oil. It almost seems that someone has driven this thing throgh Read more…
Repairs and modifications
The Pizza-Pasta-Bus is back from sandblasting
One week later Flo is happy to got his bus back. No bad suprises and a rust free floor. Great work! Thanks to KBB/Meissl. Now its time to get starded on the bodywork and finish the axles. But! There is Read more…
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Vintage Vienna #3
From our series of the good old days one more photo from vienna’s past. Here you see the court of the Hofburg Palace – Viennas current residence of the President of Austria. Photo posted by Vintage Vienna on Facebook.
Repairs and modifications
Ready for sandblasting
Flo’s Pizza Pasta Bus is completely divided in parts and is actually at the sandblasting shop. We’ll see how much of it comes back…
Photo Shoots
Knocked down brick factory
Georgy and Flo spotted this old building and get there to took some shots of Flo’s daily driver.
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Summer feelings
In spite of the freezing temperatures outside, here are some pictures to shorten the wait until the next air-cooled season!
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Vintage Vienna #2
Vienna’s Südbahnhof, the southerly train station in the past 50iesPhoto posted by Vintage Vienna on Facebook.
Videos
The ’66 in the snow
Flo changed his mind, so he and Georgy have decided to make a short video about the 1966 bug driving in the winter. Here’s the YouTube link!
Photo Shoots
Winter in Vienna
Here you see Flo’s Bugs at home. His ‘66 bug is waiting for the summer and roads without salt.
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Bye, bye rusty bus!
Flo’s T2a bus has left us last friday. He thought about his projects and so he decided to offer some of them. He has no time for so many cars! So he sold his 1969 bus to a man, who Read more…
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Domi’s Trabi want to say hello to his owner in africa!
Domi has parked his Trabant in a barn near his hometown. Flo and Georgy visited the little car last week to bring one of Friedrichs cars there. In front of Domi’s car you can see the bug from Christopher who Read more…
Repairs and modifications
Yellow headlamp lenses
From BOSCH for Flo’s Pizza-Pasta-Bus. Till TÜV do us part – that’s Austria… (“TÜV” is the technical inspection association)
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Things have changed
On the picture below you can see the parking lot on the Kahlenberg in Vienna, exactly where our first meeting took place in September 2012. We found this photo on the FB page “Vintage Vienna”. As you can see there’s Read more…
Repairs and modifications
Spare parts for the T1
Flo bought some parts for his Pizza-Pasta-Bus to install them after sandblasting and repainting while renovate the original ones.