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| My mate 'Derik' came along in his awesome RAT look 1970 early bay. This bus has a very nice 2054cc motor. |
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| Derik's bus also has a hand painted 'Flat Four' logo on the doors and tailgate. 'Flat Four' are the people to go for quality custom clothing. If you don't believe me check out their web page here: http://www.flat-four.co.uk |
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| I loved the paint scheme on this 1964 black and turquoise Karmann Ghia. |
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| Two early sixties bugs, but so different in looks. |
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| The late 1950's / early 60's silver bug looked sleek in its all silver paint. The chrome head light peaks and the KOSH style horn grilles added to the overall smooth look. |
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| This bright red 1965 bug had the U.S style front bumper and the Porsche head light grilles which gave this bug a completely different look. |
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| If you like the patina look, then you'll love this early split screen panel van. The whole body was covered in a surface rust. |
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| The winter sun sits low in the sky and makes taking photos tricky... that's my excuse for this poor quality photo ! |
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| Another vehicle with the patina look was this slammed early split oval bug. The body had just the right amount of patina and that super narrow front beam added to its cool look. |
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| I haven't learnt about taking photos facing the sun... anyway you can just about make out how narrow that front beam was from this angle. |
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| This blue oval window bug also had just the right amount of patina, but it also had some shiny paint.. look at that reflection in the door! This bug had also been slammed in the weeds and also had a super narrow front beam. |
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| You can see just how low this oval window was from this photo. |
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| The leisure centre car park was crammed full of air cooled vehicles of all descriptions. |
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| This 1966 beetle looked cool with its lowered stance and those chrome wheels with the domed hubcaps. |
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| A great assortment of both air cooled and water cooled Volkswagens in the swapmeet car park. |
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| The car park does get busy and it's normally a case of park wherever you can. The guys were parked up on the exit road. |
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| This oval window body shell was for sale, it was pretty rough and needed a lot of TLC, but if you had the time and the know how, this could have been a good project. |
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| The main body seemed to be good enough, I didn't find out how much this was up for sale for but I assume it was priced to sell. |
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| You really do have to park wherever you can and this slammed KG has done just that! I wouldn't have thought anyone would mind though as this is one seriously cool car. |
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| An unmolested KG still with its original paint. |
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| Going from an original KG to this amazing fully custom 1971 wild blueberry candy pearl painted beetle. This car was a feature car at Volksworld |
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| Again apologies for the poor quality photos, but this bug had suicide doors with hidden openers, and a sideways opening deck lid. |
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| The front hinged bonnet was unusual but looked good. The car is powered by a type 3 1679cc motor. This bug was up for sale for £4995. |
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| A stunning KG cabriolet parked up at the Slough Swapmeet. I have only just realised that this lovely cabriolet is parked next to the WBC club line up. |
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| The gorgeous white cabriolet was parked in front of Joe's immaculate 1971 microbus and behind Luke's 1975 baby blue and white bus. |
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| The Swap meet car park is more like a VW show with top quality air cooled and water cooled cars and buses everywhere. |
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| Yes please!! This immaculate 1989 light grey Doka was gorgeous. The light grey of the body against the black trim looked fantastic. |
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| You can see just how clean and straight this Doka really is from this photo. I did like the chrome roll bar and grab handles down the sides. |
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| Looking at just a handful of WBC members buses from the rear. Dave who owns the slammed red '57 panel van would have parked closer to the kerb but there a piece of rubbish on the ground and as Dave's bus is so low the bus couldn't get over it !! (only joking Dave!) |
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| This beautiful Type 14A (Hebmuller) is quite rare as only around 700 being produced from 1949 - 1953. They were actually built by Hebmuller and Sohn for Volkswagen. |
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| The Type 14A was basically a type1 beetle, using the same floor pan, brakes and engine. |
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| The main difference is that on a 'Heb' the deck lid and truck were of similar size as can be seen here. |
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| You can spot a Hebmuller from a mile away with that gorgeous rear end. |
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| The owner is part of the Hebmuller Registry that has 157 registered type 12A's. |
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| You can see the beetle heritage from inside the cockpit. |
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| A bit more modern was this lovely type 3 fast- back. The type 3 came in 3 variants, including the square back, and the notchback. |
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| I do like the type 3's, (which were produced from 1961 - 1973) especially when they are this clean. |
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| This lovely 1964 beetle has appeared many times of my blog, and it's easy to see why. This really is a lovely car. |
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| This slammed 1966 dark green beetle was gorgeous. This car had so much detailing from the lowered stance to those beautiful wheels. |
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| The body was perfectly straight and the paint had been applied flawlessly. The chrome Porsche headlight grilles and the chrome bumpers were in contrast with the green colour and looked great. |
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| This 1967 lowered bug caught my eye, not only because of the Jack Daniels logo on the doors, but also because of the slammed stance, that narrow front end and the colour. |
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| The owner of this fantastic looking 1969 beach buggy should have received some sort of award for coming along to the swapmeet in a buggy in November where the temperature hovered around freezing all day. |
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| This was a really cool looking buggy. I'm not sure what type of body shell this has but I did like it. |
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| This lovely high riding T25 syncro left early so I just had to get another photo of it. I really do have a liking for these syncro's. |
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| The variety of quality air cooled vehicles at the swapmeet was immense. |
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| Just me trying to be artistic...! |
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| If you like your vehicles with patina then you'll love this oval window. |
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| This really was a lovely looking car. The patina was across the whole roof and on the wing tops and looked great, as did those original wheel trims and the white wall tyres. |
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| The variety of air cooled vehicles parked up at the swap meet was amazing. |
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| An awesome sight leaving the leisure centre car park. |
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| I took this cheeky photo of Matthew as we sat at some traffic lights. |
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| Matthew's SO42 Westfalia looks good in this action shot. This is around where Matthew and I went our separate ways on the way home as Matthew off onto the M40. So that was my 3 part review about the Slough Swapmeet. Once again it was a great day out. Thanks to Matthew for meeting me for the short cruise down to the show. Thanks to Rich from the Wolfsburg Bus Crew for organising club parking and all the WBC members that attended the show to create an impressive club line up. Next weeks blog review is all about the Campermart Show 2018 where you can see plenty of quality bugs and buses including the only remaining coca- cola barndoor bus, so be sure to come back next Saturday. |
