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Happy New Year 2012!
We wish you a Happy New Year and all the best for 2012! The Love Bug in front of the so-called Salvation or Love Mountain in Niland, Southern California.
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Sunsets in the desert
Herbie is enjoying the sunsets out here in the desert. In fact our camp is located in the Mojave Desert of California. A big sky and these huge landscapes are creating an incredible atmosphere – and the best thing is, there is no humidity at all! When we got back Read more…
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KdF Channel – biggest aircooled video channel on vimeo!
Georgy is working on it every time to keep it up to date. Stay tuned!
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Herbie goes Bananas
From Ridgecrest, California, where we are now, via Brownsville, Texas, to Veracruz, Mexico, Herbie will have to drive 2,350 miles (or 3,780 kilometers) to get on a vessel in order to be shipped to Columbia. This is actually our plan for January! “That’s one small step for a man, one Read more…
Repairs and modifications
The work goes on on the “1600i-1303S-Project”
Flo’s old fifty horsepower engine is ready for revision and conversion to an injection engine. Old parts which wont be used again. “New” parts from the 1600i.
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Keep On Rollin’
A video on the motorway we made in summer! With a Panasonic HDC –SD909 mounted on a Delkin Device “Fat Gecko”. Nice shots…
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Merry Christmas!
We wish you a “Merry Christmas”!You’ll find today’s issue of the Austrian newspaper “Heute” in which we are sending our Christmas wishes to our Austrian fellows, friends and family members. If you don’t have the chance to get the printed version here’s a copy and a link below to the Read more…
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Poor Flo and his Bug…
Today Flo was on his way home from Friedrich’s workshop as a shitty Peugeot destroyed the rear fender of Flo’s ’66 Bug. 🙁 Friedrich would say: “Herr schütz’ uns vor Sturm und Wind, und Autos die aus Frankreich sind” which means: “Lord protect us from storm and wind and cars Read more…
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A very nice shot
Our dear friend Michael Lee Phillips took a very nice shot of Herbie in front of the Trona train tracks in Searles Valley, California.
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The Darién Gap
We’re planning to go to South America next, in order to continue Herbie’s World Tour. We’ve already driven across all 48 lower United States, we went to Canada and traveled through Mexico and all Central American countries. There is just South America left. But why haven’t we been there yet? Read more…
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All’s well that ends well
There is no other way than shipping a vehicle from North (or Central) to South America. Therefore we’ll have to put Herbie on one of the big cargo ships where thefts happen quite often. So we ordered a lock for the engine hood. But we had to get it twice Read more…
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Herbie’s got new rubber
We drove to Lancaster for shopping and also in order to change all four tires on our almost 49 years old VW Bug. That is the third time that we put new tires on Herbie while touring around the globe.
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New links
An Austrian website which is maybe a little bit inspired by our blog. 😉 Air-cool guys!“LoveBugFans.com has been established to foster camaraderie among fans of Disney’s “Herbie the Love Bug” films, act as a resource for owners of original and replica Herbies, and support the Herbie character through the exchange Read more…
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The Love Bug Fans
Today we had a blast! We set up a meeting with a young guy called Kyle from Palmdale. We got to know him via www.lovebugfans.com. Since the age of 12 he owns a VW Bug which he transformed himself into an awesome Herbie replica. Here you can see Kyle with Read more…
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Love goes ‘round the world
“The News Review” – a weekly newspaper here in Ridgecrest, California – brought out a nice story about us and Herbie “The Love Bug” going around the world in today’s issue. The article is written by Linda Saholt.
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Good “shocking” news
Finally we got the right shocks for Herbie. We ordered four new ones by Monroe (made in the US) – Domi’s favorites! It was as it used to be here in the Mojave desert a nice and warm day – great to work outside. The reason why Domi likes the Read more…
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Herbie’s World Tour Fully Reloaded
We got a brand new blog: www.herbiesworldtour.com Herbie is fully reloaded and we are back on the road in order to explore the world together. As we are members of “DLV Aircooled Community” you’ll still find our latest posts of our ongoing trip around the globe on here too.
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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Domi installed the new lid lock in the back. He was able to lock the hood after that but he couldn’t unlock it again because the pin wouldn’t go inside totally, so Domi guesses. We spoke to “ISP West” where we bought this spare part and we are so thankful Read more…
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Ready to go?
Herbie and the camper are doing quite well now. So we’d be ready to go to South America. But we decided to stay in California for Christmas. We turned on some Christmas lights and people who pass by are enjoying the show.
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Herbie at the Trona Pinnacles
It was an amazing photo session with our Herbie at the Trona Pinnacles – a National Natural Landmark just outside of Trona, California. Don’t get bored! You’ll just see big stones, train tracks and a VW Bug Herbie replica from 1963.
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Don’t forget the keys…
As we’re planning to go to South America we bought a new engine lid lock including keys which we didn’t have.
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“Shocking” news
Domi was pretty disappointed when he inspected the package he received yesterday. We ordered four new shocks for Herbie but the ones we got are obviously a very different type.
Videos
Digging In The Deeps Of Vimeo Part 2
Modern day Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Commercial/Promo, starring a 1963 Karmann Ghia.
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28 years ago…
December 2, 1983, Domi was born in Vienna, Austria. Until the age of fourteen he was living in a small town called Weidling, which is a part of Klosterneuburg, where he moved with his family afterwards. Domi was raised together with his five brothers and two sisters. Read more…
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Inyokern – The Sunshine Capital of America
Herbie was taking his first ride after installing the new starter. Today’s destination was Inyokern, the so-called “sunshine capital of America”, a little town with less than a thousand inhabitants just outside of Ridgecrest.