Kevin's place, still day 1

After more then 26 hours travel was we finally in USA. We got the car at the airport after some search and argue. We tock the SUV that I had ordered and haded down against Mcdonough to Kevin's place. When we arrived where they still up and made som adjustments on his new rail buggy. Kevin had Anibal Chico and Ralph from Califonia on visit. Chico is well known VW engine builder and has the companies WWW.STEELBUGIN.COM and CHICO PERFORMANCE RACING.
Kevin did't look to happy at the moment with the visit. You can already see Michael teaching Chico how to build engines.

Now Kevin starts to get warm. 3 o'clock in the morning zzzzzzzzzzzz.

Now Micheal starts to be hotter then hot. Chico listen with big ears.

My dad study what the rail buggy.

Michael are back behind the computer and show how things should be done.

My dad take a walk in the park and look around in Kevins garage.

Some nice details of the rail.

CSP covers are never wrong.

A rack for the computer. I'm just waiting for Michaels computer to take the place on that :D Now is it time for 3 hour sleep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
6:30 and time to start the loading of the rail buggy.
Chico and Dave helped Kevin out with the loading of the rail buggy. Dave and Chico took the rail to the Dyno Day. Kevin could not come with us to the BKC Dyno Day, he hade to join his kids for the junior dragracing competition.

On the way

Now are we at Copenhagen airport and have bin drinking some berrs and are ready for the long flight to Chicago.
Gothenburg at 8:00 this morning. First beer on his way down the throat.

Michal and my dad just went through Danish custom.
Me and my dad. Ready to rock.

Old reportage of True Romance

I did find this reportage when I was reading an old HotVWs from 2000. It's my friend Patric's Cal-looker from -65. For sure his wife looks better then him. The VW are now somewhere in Norway. I think he regret badly that he sold that car.
Be back soon again. I will put up more old reportages from friends and people i know.

Teaser of my car

I have just started to make something new with my 66. Follow my blog and you will see what will be done with it.

On Friday will I, my dad and Michael fly over to the USA for nearly two weeks travel. We will visit BKC Dyno Day 2009 and Silver Dollar Showdown #8 this weekend and I guess we will visit 3rd Annual Lakeland Classic the weekend after that.
If you follow my blog will you be able to join my trip to the USA and what we will do every day.

Weekend garage visit at Daniels

This week end did i help my friend Daniel with his type1 from 64. I had helped him to put on new dropped spindles on the front beam and now was it time to put the beam on. Daniel has a load of nice cars. Just to mention some of them. A samba bus, a 54 type1 cab, a 64 that just have bin on the streets for 9700km.

The 64 that will get a mild Resto-look when it's out on the streets.

The Porsche rims will be nice on this VW.

The 205/70-15 in the back will be perfect.

This green type1 from 56 will soon be for sale. If you are interested in buying it send me an e-mail and I will transfer it to Daniel

The VW was restored for over 10 years ago but are still in very good condition. It has won some meetings around in Sweden some years ago.

The interior on the VW is very nice.

The 1915cc engine has about 150hp.

Now over to some teasers of his typ1 cab from 54. This car will be one very extraordinary car. The restoration is very well done. I can't wait enough to see this on on the streets.

The interior is just marvelous.
Also the back of the car has all the right parts.

New garage visit

Last week did i visit Koolman and his garage in Partille outside Gothenburg. Koolman has his garage not far away from where he lives. He has it together with a guy that is building a what it looks like a street sleeper.
The white Variant type 3 are for sale for other projects. It has some dents and are not in perfect condition but can be a very nice ride for the summer with smal amount of work. If you are intrested send me an e-mail and i transfer it to Koolman.

Koolman a busy guy. Always close to his cellphone.
The hood has a very nice pinstripe.
Koolman also has a lot of parts for it as new exhaust and some more stuff.
Koolmans garage friends upcoming street sleeper.

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 :)