Saturday, January 30, 2010

Cool DVD:s

I had received delivery of Bug Run 09 and SCC 09 DVDs while I was on Holiday, what a nice surprise! I already had the SCC 2008, so here's my small collection of Rivstart.tv DVDs. Get your's from http://www.rivstart.tv (PayPall accepted)!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Meilenverk Berlin

Last month my friend visited Meilenverke in Berlin and sent me these photos. I got to admit I'm jealous. Definitely seems like a place to visit, no doubt.

Monday, January 4, 2010

912 Spare engine disassembly

*Note! Oh shit, the blogger does not scale the pic's from the shitty PICASA. Anyway you get a full picture by cliking it or just go HERE, where I put all pic's I took.

I bought this 356 engine as a spare, to get my 912 running for last summer, as my own crank and fly wheel were stolen.



I planned to tear it a part and use the crank&flywheel in my matching numbers block. All went well and parts look OK, exept that I managed to crack a piece on from one piston and that in fact the crank wasn't counterweighted as I had supposed. Maybe not all 356 cranks were counterweighed? I have one Porsche industrial engine crank that isn't. Today I noticed also that they sell cranks without CWs for 356's on http://www.ahnendorp.com . Here are both of my cranks.



I also took apart my two pairs of Solex 40 PII-4 carburators for a rebuild.





There has been a fire in one of the carbs. Caused by bad sync I guess, as one diffusor has melted. Does anyone have a spare? Email me please, thank you.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Auto movie from early sixties

Althought it's made for critisizing the modern way of life, for fan of '50s and 60s cars it's absolutely brilliant footage! Just try to count how many rag top beetles you can spot!
Auto Auto

Sunday, December 20, 2009

T34 Ghia

Today I went to see a T34 Karmann Ghia. I had seen this car in the spring of 1998, when it was next to my car at a car show here in Joensuu. It has been driven less than 500km since then, but it has been stored well and about 15 years old restoration looked good stil after all these years. Here are a couple of shots from today and another pair from almost twelwe years ago.






Saturday, December 19, 2009

Notch Project

Progress on my Notchback project. Rotiserie ready:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBTKBV4hizU

And drums were turned, I think I'm going to acid dip them before painting.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Insurance add

This insurance add made me stop and take another look, can you spot the interesting thing?

Snow

We had some more snow this week. After a couple of dark and wet falls, this year it seems that the winter is coming on normal 'schedule'.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Deadbeat Diamand Grau

I went to see a '59 beetle today, too bad it was another 'rat look'-object. Here are more shots, not for faint hearted ;o)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009

Some Stuff

Just bought REAL chromed Lemmerz (EMPI Sprint Star) 4-lug wheels. They need to be restored thought to be perfect. Pictured here with some of my other stuff. I just need a car for these. I think early autostick fuel injected type3 squareback with sunroof would be optimal, but fasty or cool late model bug might be nice too. Or '67 1500 Bug, or late cabrio, or...




Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Awesome Notch

Yesterday I visited Pekka on my way home from Oulu. He has this very early '62-'63 notchback, which is super cool! I love that original 'pre-S' model interior! He needs all fender beadings and rear reflector housing seals, let me know if you have some!

There were also a couple of nice beetles, but I missed to take pictures of them. Stupid me, oh well these cell phone pic's aren't the good anyway.


Topless - Ex-Pringles cabrio

A couple of years ago Pringles potato chips gave away 20 of these "hack saw cabrios". I spotted this one last weekend on my way to dinner, it has had recently fresh paint job from black to red and a funky looking rag top. Atleast that rear window is quite weird.


Trip to Salo and Helsinki

Last week I spotted a couple of nice Bay windows on my trip to south of Finland. And went to see Jari's '58 project too.