Domi and his friend Flo took Herbie for a ride to Bavaria, Germany. On their way Herbie lost all case studs of one of the cylinder heads. The wildest nightmare got reality, but the Love Bug made it back to Vienna safely. Domi noticed a weird and loud noise in Read more…
Christian, Georgy, Flo, Matthias and Domi visited the 4th Friday Night Cruising by “Altblech” – a community for classic cars in Austria. Every last Friday of the month vintage cars from all over meet at the parking lot of SCS – Vienna’s biggest shopping center.
Five DLV air-cooled Volkswagen visited the 19th VW Bug Show in Lengenfeld, Lower Austria, today.
Yesterday, the newsmagazine “Heute” published something about Herbie’s World Tour. The picture was taken in the Atacama Desert of Chile on our trip across South America. We’ve already done 150,000 kilometers so far and our 34 horsepower are still running.
It is time for the 19th VW Bug Show in Lengenfeld, Lower Austria. It will take place from Friday to Sunday. We’ll be there on Saturday. If you are interested in following our convoy, don’t hesitate to contact us!
Yesterday, we, “Die Luftverkühlten” (or DLV), took a ride. Four Bugs and a LT followed the route of our “Late Summer Ride” (LSR) which will take place in September. Afterwards we sat together in Domi’s former family home chatting about VW stuff.
Herbie No. II and Flo’s ‘66 went for a ride, with two trailers in tow, the other day. They picked up a completely disassembled VW Bug from 1984 and a moped, which they got from various auctions. Domi bought the old Beetle just because he needs its engine. We’ll have Read more…
Last weekend Domi and his good friend Flo drove in his Bug from 1966 to Upper Austria to pick up Herbie No. II and the other “QEK” camper. They were stored in an old farmer’s barn. After that they visited their friend and mechanic, Friedrich Hübsch, in Waldhausen im Strudengau, Read more…
6 people, 4 days and 3 aircooled vehicles! Flo, Chris, Benjamin, Georgy, Fabi and Tami visited the 9th international VW Bug meeting in the south of Austria.
After Flo helped Domi to get his second Herbie back from Upper Austria, they made a visit to Waldhausen, where Friedrich and Matthias spend their Weekend. The day before Flo has had trouble with his fuel system. The ÖAMTC put up a temporary fuel pipe as a solution. In Waldhausen Read more…
With over 21 million manufactured in an air-cooled, rear-engined, rear-wheel drive configuration, the Volkswagen Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single design platform anywhere in the world.
Herbie’s World Tour got featured in the latest edition of “FUSCA & CIA”, a Brazilian magazine about the air-cooled Volkswagen Bug. The story goes over eight full pages and includes a lot of pictures from our travels around the world. The article is written in Portuguese by Luiz Guedes Jr. Read more…
An old Bug also needs equipment from this time, so Matthias found an old first-aid-kit on ebay and a breakdown triangle in Friedrichs storage. The bandages look like brand new.
Today Herbie and Domi visited the reportedly “greatest VW show on earth”, better known as California’s “VW Classic 2012” in Irvine, near Los Angeles. Hundreds of air-cooled Volkswagen showed up and the Love Bug enjoyed being part of the show.
We wish our Georgy a happy birthday! Thanks for beeing such a good friend. We’re glad to have you at DLV!
On friday DLV visited the monthly repeating show “HSN” at the Shopping City South in Vienna. They saw some beautiful american cars and also a few bugs could be found. See more at: http://www.hotsummernites.at/
Today Georgy visited the annual “Rollertreffen im Wiener Prater”. There was also a common trip along the Wiener Ringstrasse.
Flo, Benjamin, Chris, Matthias and Friedrich were last weekend in Upper Austria. They have experienced a lot. There was a VW-Meeting with oldtimer show in Grein, which they have visited. In addition, they put together a trailer, with cars will soon be transported. When reassembling, Matthias has unfortunately injured and Read more…
Herbie and Domi are going to appear at the reportedly “greatest VW show on earth”. The 30th “VW Classic” will take place at the Verizon Amphitheater in Irvine, California, on June 10. For more information about the show, just follow this link! If you’re planning to visit this year’s “VW Read more…
Yesterday we got back to our camp in Ridgecrest, located in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. For the last four months we were traveling across the USA, Mexico and South America along the “Pan-American Highway”. Herbie made 18,166 miles (29,236 kilometers) going down south and all the way back. Read more…
Today we were following the legendary Route 66 aka the “Mother Road” of America. We took several business loops in order to get through cities like Holbrook, Winslow and Seligman. In New Mexico we crossed the so-called Continental Divide. We ended up in Kingman, Arizona, at the end of the Read more…
After traveling the USA for more than sixteen months, we got the chance to visit almost all National Parks across the 48 lower United States. Only a few are missing. Yesterday we explored Carlsbad Caverns National Park in the Southeast of New Mexico. Later on we headed north on Highway Read more…
Following the so-called Texas Mountain Trail towards New Mexico brought us through Guadalupe Mountains National Park. We had a pretty gusty cross wind while gaining height. Road signs got blown away and Domi had to steer very carefully.
Herbie is still running. We’ve already driven almost 150,000 kilometers (more than 93,000 miles) around the planet. And Herbie’s World Tour has not even ended yet! Right now we’re following old American trade routes as well as the legendary Route 66 traveling across the Southwest of the US towards Southern Read more…
As posted here before, Herbie got featured in the Paraguayan “ABC Color” magazine. Thanks to Jorge Ortiz from Asunción we just received a copy of the printed version. The Classic VW Club Paraguay also published a story with a lot of photos about our meeting with Osvaldo Espínola, Jorge Ortiz Read more…
We just arrived in Van Horn, Texas, after crossing the second largest United State. The landscape changed dramatically while Herbie followed old American trade routes. Tomorrow we’ll head north to Roswell, Artesia and Carlsbad in New Mexico, visiting its Caverns National Park right after crossing the state border on Highway Read more…
We made it! After heading through the Mexican States Veracruz and Tamaulipas, we finally crossed the US border entering Texas. From here we’re continuing our road trip across the United States towards Ridgecrest in Southern California. Brownsville, Texas, is the well-known border town, we entered after hurrying through probably the Read more…
Francisco Ibarra from the Classic VW Club Paraguay informed us that the magazine “ABC Color” just published the story on Herbie’s World Tour, we got interviewed about. Here’s the link to the article, of course written in Spanish (by Julio Noguera). Unfortunately we don’t have a printed version. Maybe we’ll Read more…
Our Travel Bug arrived at the harbor of Veracruz on time. Yesterday Domi got the permission to pick him up. Everything worked out great and Herbie is doing very well. We are so happy about that! Now we’re looking forward heading north again. Herbie’s vessel, the “Green Lake”, sailed exactly Read more…
Matthias is a trained electronics engineer, so Friedrich had the idea to copy the memory of a modified control unit (erasable programmable read only memory – EPROM) to save money, because an empty EPROM costs about 2€ and a modified chip from a shop up to 150€. So Matthias tried Read more…
As you know, we are back in Veracruz, on the Golf of Mexico. There is no other country in the world in which so many Volkswagen Beetles were produced like here. Therefore you can still find a lot of spare part shops for air-cooled Volkswagen – just like “La Casa Read more…
The biggest magazine about air-cooled Volkswagen in France called “Super VW Mag” just published a story about Herbie’s World Tour and us globetrotters. The article includes an interview with us, done and written by Julien-David Collombet. For a readable version (in French) just follow Herbie’s page “Press“!
Our plan was to explore the Andes of South America in our beloved Volkswagen Bug from 1963. Herbie accomplished his mission by driving 13,080 miles (21,050 kilometers) – all thanks to his very same engine with just 1,200 cc and 34 horsepower. We’ve experienced so much by following the “Panamericana” Read more…
Today we delivered Herbie to one of Cartagena’s ports where he’ll go aboard on his vessel “Green Lake” heading across the Caribbean and the Golf of Mexico to Veracruz. Unfortunately too many things went wrong again at the “Contecar” port and we had to spend the entire day getting almost Read more…
As you know we are back in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, waiting for the ship, which will take Herbie back to Veracruz, Mexico. Hopefully it will depart on May 12. We initially booked a boat called “Green Lake”, which got canceled but they called the cancelation off again, so Herbie Read more…
After we crossed our last border in South America, we ran into a protest of the Colombian teacher’s union, who blocked an important highway intersection right after the border, one of just two roads connecting Colombia and Venezuela with each other. They demonstrated for higher wages and even blocked the Read more…
While having lunch in the shade of a tree on Highway No. 6, heading towards Colombia, we got to know true Love Bug fans from Venezuela who invited us to their home. They even filled up Herbie with a couple gallons of gas. Getting closer to the border, it is Read more…
You probably won’t believe it, but a complete fill up for Herbie just costs 30 US-Cents in Venezuela. This is not a joke! Venezuela has the cheapest gas prices in the world. Herbie feels like he is in paradise. Gas for just three US-Cents per Gallon (or less than one Read more…
Christian, Fabi and Georgy visited the biggest aircooled VW meeting in Austria with Flo’s ‘73 Buggy and Georgy’s ‘84 Mexican! The second one was fitted with standard tires at the front because the lowering doesn’t offer enough space for the ATS rims!