X'mas came early!

Apparently I've been really good this year! Parts for my new engine arrived today. AA (chinese) internals with some Claude's Buggies goodies. Heads will be Scat pro street with 40/35,5mm valves, but they didn't arrive just yet. But there's plenty of work already prepping and measuring the stuff that arrived.

New pans for the Notchback!

Gerson, the man behind the Klassic Fab, the funky green panels in Bogota Colombia sent me these pan halves for my '65 Notch project, I'd better start welding then! The Quality seems very nice!

Which tail light lenses would you choose?

TL MOT failure!

My new Touring Limousine failed at the MOT! Left side rear brake did not work at all, but the right side had 2kN braking force. So I had to open up the brake, one piston was completely jammed, and the cylinder was leaking on the other end because some corrosion and hardened rubber seals. These original wheel cylinders are 22mm, but the local parts shop is only offering 23,8mm cylinder from 1302 front brakes as a replacement. So I need to replace both sides. Not a bad idea, as I bet they are decades old, if not totally original. I already made new pipes, put in left side hose & pipe and cleaned the internals, as the leak had gotten all wet. Now I just need the new cylinders, they should arrive within a day or two, as they needed to be ordered.

Type3 Variant

Went to see this late sixties model N Variant a month ago. It was pretty solid, (read: welded alot,) but I lost interest as the body was welded completely to chassis.

Working on the TL

Last weekend I finished the polishing of the TL, it did not turn out perfect, but alot better than badly faded paint that it was before.



I set up electric windscreen washer, as original switch was leaking on the floor. I managed to make it all without doing any additional holes. Just tied the motor to the original washer bottle with cable ties, and added pushbutton under the dash to a hole there already was.


I installed steering damper too, which was missing. Talking about loose steering. I got two new dampers for 36,5€ including postage. Not bad, even though they're not german. I had to change tie rods as left side wheel had over one centimeter play!

New Old Shoes

Just had to try on the SprintStars. At rear there's no chance to get the 185/70 tyre to fit. It's rubbing pretty severely... Maybe 165 or 155 would fit inside the fender?

Messing up the perfect patina.

I'm not a big fan of the "Ratlook", so I want to see how will the severely dimmed paint of my Fastback polish out. Yesterday we buffed it with coarse polishing compound by machine. More to follow...

Porsche out, TL 1600 in

Had to get something to fill the empty space, right? It's '67 VW TL1600 with 132 000km on the clock. Last 32 years it has been driven about 40 000 km. One lady owner 1967-2009, making me the 3rd. owner. Actually now my all VW's are bought from the second owners. It has gotten a lot of battle scars over the years, but it's solid and been MOT inspected yearly. I'm planning on making it a driver, I can take out even during harsh finnish winter.

912 Sold

I tried if anyone was interested in bying my 912, and it was sold in less that 24 hours... Some farewell shots from the Nokia.

Mobilephone shots summer of 2010

Some misc shots I found on my phone.

New narrowed beam.

This one is -70mm with shocktowers. Previously I had -120mm without shocks, but I need to get it inspected. No clearance issues with 165/65R15's and SSP five spokes with ET20.

Sightings around the town

I spotted one of the coolest Beemers ever made the other day. In my opinion that is.




And one typical Finnish Looker.

3 month hibernation

Oops, it's been a while since I last time posted something. About 3 moths ago I purchased this '60 Ragtop from it's second owner, who had imported it from Sweden in late eighties.





Immediately I changed the wheels and put in a Blaupunt radio from my Notchback. And added the missing Wolfsburg crest with better hood molding. Note also the aluminum Split window hood handle that I could not resist to bolt on. Also those Taiwan R.O.C eye brows had to go in favour of original german items.






Next was lowering, of course, and change of wheels. Also added repro pop-out windows, which turned out piece of great quality kit. With ragtop you really need pop-outs, that's for sure! Also I got black plates, which you can get for all pre '72 cars in Finland for a fee of 20€.