HillBilly VW

One of Sweden's coolest VW clubs have just started. "HillBilly VW"
They even have there own radio chanel. Klick on on the left side on there site to start it. This guys have the right feeling how life should be. The only bad thing is that it's just in Swedish :( But who knows maybe they will make it in English to.

1600cc Challenge

Now it's time for some fun event for the guys up north in Sweden. You can read more about it and the rules if you want to compete here "1600cc Challenge"

Der Brückenrenners

Yesterday did i visit the guys at the VW club Der Brückenrenners.
Or as they say "It´s a conspiracy, not a club" This very nice guys try to meet every second week at BurgerKing in Kalmar. Most of the guys are from the island Öland just a bridge away from Kalmar.

The club started more or less in 1992 so most of the guys have long experience of mechanics on all kind of VW. For me is DBR famous for racing. This guys was one of the first I did know that was running with Type 4 engines here in Sweden.

The fun thing with this guy was that nearly everyone show up this evening. Just one or two guys was missing. It was three from the begining but after som hour did Tomas show up to. Tomas is well know for his racing on the dragstrip.
A big thanks for the vist and I hope to see you soon again for some VW chat.

Here are most of the crew from the DBR. You can read more about them here "Der Brückenrenners"
Late but not to late did even the one and only Tomas show up.

BRM

I got my new BRM rims yesterday painted in anthracite colour. I will have 6 1/2" for the back wheels and 4 1/2" for the front wheels.
I did not get the front rims because some misunderstanding with the delivery. I hope I will get them next week.
I could not wait to see how it will look like so just had to put the 205/70-15 tires on the rims today.

VW Rod, second pit stop at Henkes garage

After the motor start up failure and some food at MAX was it time for this evenings second garage visit. This time did we drive to Henkes garage. Henke is well known for his bikes and pick up that was illustrated in Swedish car magazine Wheels.

Henke also do alot of flake painting on cars, bikes, helmets ans so on.

At the moment is Henke working hard to finnish his last project. A VW type 1 Bonneville hot rod. I think this Rod will be one very nice and potent VW Rod with alot of cool stuff.

Thomas is study the tyre. Diagonal Firestone black wall.
The front beam are made by Henke.
The body is very well made with good lines.
This is one of Henkes bikes. This is a Swedish bike named Svalan "Swallow". You can also see his blue, flake painted second bike.
Pin striped bike saddle.
The motor for the blue flaked bike. Henke is waiting for some parts for it after a major brake down last summer.
Most of the parts for the motor are very rare trim parts from Morgo.
The wonderful flake painted petrol tank.
One more pictue of the tank. That was it from last weeks visit in north Sweden. A big thank you to Thomas and Henrik for the visit and a fun evening. I hope to see you soon again.

This week will i travel over to the east cost of Sweden and meet some of the guys from the DBRVW.

Visit up north in Sweden, start up new build engine

Direct from Thomas place did we drive to the Citroën garage. This is the place were Henrik is working and also were he have his new build 2165cc engine. The 2165cc will be installed in a VW rod. More about that later.

Me and Thomas was loaded as you can be when you are going to start up a new engine. First did we have to make the last adjustments and put the rockers in place. After some adjustments and spark plugs in place was it time to put some motor oil in it.

Now the time had come to crank it up. On the first try did we have a leak on the gas line, second try was not better the cranking motor did not work as it should and we could not get oil pressure. The third try was the last one. The cranking motor did it's last turns before it burned. That was the end of that funny evening.

Thomas is checking the spark plugs and Henrik is doing the hard work with adjusting the fan belt.
Rocker adjustment.
After oil filling was it now time for the start up.

First try did the gas line leak at the hose couplings.

The end of this evening :(

Visit up north in Sweden, first pit stop at SilverSoar

After my first stop in Gävle was the next way station at Thomas alias "SilverSoar" garage. He was working hard at the moment but of course not on any of his cars.
It looked exact the same as last visit ;) You can read some more about his cars at "SilverSoar"

This vert has everything in my opinion. It's just missing one thing, the right owner :D

Lucky that his very nice vert is standing in front of him so we barely can see him. Thomas has made a terrific work on this vert.

A nice car must have nice rims. Fuchs 4½"x15 with 135 in the front and Fuchs Deep 6" and M'H tyre.

The 2276cc engine is to bad not the fastest car up north. With the right driver and some adjustments would it be a killer.

There is no risk that Thomas will worn out the steering wheel or the Gene Berg shifter.

Here is the next project. A very nice 54 in good condition.
Thomas has so much goodies in his garage that even P-I from Borås should be jealous.

Garage visit at JN :s place

Today did I make a stop at JN:s garage.
After nearly 700km drive was I finally in Gävle. A fast check in to the hotel and some dinner then was I back into the car again. This evening did I drive to Jörgen Nilsson alias JN. He lives in the middle of nowhere close to the small village Årsunda about 10 km from Sandviken. The reason to the visit was that I had a welding helmet for him.

JN is working on what are going to be a very interesting car for the summer. I can tell you all that it will be a classic Cal-Looker. I don't want to disclose to much about it but maybe it will have some flake paint and some classic engine-lid made in glass fibre. The interior will be simple with old Jazz racing seats and other classic Cal-Look stuff. In the future will it also have a big engine. Tomorrow will I continue this weeks trip up to Örnsköldsvik. When you are up there you never know what will happen :)