Summer is near!

On Monday I realised it's 12 days to first of May, which is when the summer cars usually gather here in Joesnuu for the first time. And I had my 912 engine disassembled on the garage floor (&table&shelves...). Now two days later I have a long block, still some work ahead, but maybe I get it monted to the car this weekend. Atleast I hope so. Then I would have a couple of days to cure the teething problems. More pic's here.

I'm on the cover of the VolksWorld magazine!

In the VolksWorld Show they had this opportunity for visitors to get their picture taken in the newly restored VolksWorld Fridolin for charity.

Tamiya Beetle's New Shoes

A Common trick is to use Tamiya 1:10 Mini Minilite wheels as they resemble KN Minator 8-spoke wheel. I painted them GOLD and used Mini slicks without tyre insert (original ones did not fit into the slicks), and the grip felt awesome, even with fresh tyres and dirty tarmac after the winter. Slicks has also smaller radius so it's not going so fast anymore, with original tyres it's way too fast for my kids (read: for me) to handle.

VolksWorld Show 2010

It was a fun trip, but unfortunately due a memorycard failure I got just these 8 shots. Well my friends have more, as soon they get them published I'll link them here.

Spray painting & nonsense

Yesterday while cleaning the garage for assembling the 912 engine, I started playing with spray cans. First I sprayed the master cylinder of the Notch in silver. And then Tamiya Mini wheels, that I intend to use on my 1:10 Tamiya Beetle as 8-spokes, got a coat of GOOLD (pronounced like in Austin Powers movie).

Safety harness

Today I was seaching for some stuff in my parts stash. While I was there I took a closer look on the safety belts I've had there for over ten years. I was quite surprised as I realised that they are actually old racing harness! I was like WOOHOO! I need to get some oldskool inspired car for these! They appear to be made in Sweden by RKN, althought there is chromed fastener that says Klippan, is says only RKN on the buckle and the badge. Unless ofcourse these two kompanies are related some how. I need to check Google.

Mäkistartti, ice-racing at Tahkovuori

Last saturday we went to Nilsiä for some ice-track driving training. Thank you FVWA Kupoio for great event and all participants for good company! We went there with Mikko's Golf cabrio, and drove top down, ofcourse!

Outsourcing is the word of the day.

Sorry about stupid ass title, which only Finns might 'get'. Anyway, Notch project is moving on as the parts I dropped to powder coater on last sunday are ready! This is fast action in my point of view, as it took 4 months to sandblast and powder coat my 912 steelies in an other joint last winter. I also got one NOS front seat slider from via http://www.volkkaripalsta.com and 912 motor hanger was painted at the same time too.

MB kastenwagen

Yesterday I spotted this rare Benz Kastenwagen, which apparently is transformed into a camper van, on a side street near my house.

More blasting

Today I cleaned some parts of my 912 carbs, and desided to try out the blasting cabinet with new blasting media. I was wondering around the garage to find something to blast, so I stumbled on to Notch master brake cylinder, so it got cleaned. Slow but not steady progress on the Notch project ;o)

Slow progress on Notch project

Some of the suspension parts were shot blasted, but not all the rust came off, so I took them to sand blasting and now thay are ready for powder coating.


Went to see also Jani's projects at the same trip.

Private collection

Or should I say Museum? What do you think, doesn't this kind of collection make most of VW enthusiasts green with envy? Split window and ragtop oval (older restorations), loaded '61 beetle, '63 standard beetle, Wihuri Beetle from late '60ties (assembled in Finland), Autostick Beetle, another restored autostick pan, '67 Street racer coming up, '67 Pritschenwagen, '60ties Variant, or should I say Squareback, VW powered MF harvester, VW powered ice-sled and many others. Boy that Kit car was small! I think it might be FiberFab Aztec, isn't it?
My pic's are bad and it was -10 degrees celcius over there, but I will back there in summer time with better camera. This collector also had plenty of cool old pedal cars and other stuff, but I was so confused to find this VW collection so near that I completely missed to take photos of everything.

Airmighty Megascene!

Awesome new mag arrived! And new Volksworld had arrived during my holiday too!

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)!

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.