Getting out of japanese cars

Thank god for camera phones. Guller just landed in my driveway.

The teacher is in the AUDI-torium

Some of you may know Jesper Vang as the guy who cut up a split on the Samba.com or the guy behind the "Ultrarat" or "Psychorat". But Jesper is also a skillfull metalworker and in the daytime he´s teaching young men to beat panels into shape. Jesper is always looking for a new daily ride, but I hope he keeps this one, A brown Audi of 70´ies vintage. Knowing Jesper, I think this car will have some cool wheels and be a bit closer to the ground soon. BTW thanks for all your help Jesper.

Underground

Mr. Winther of Silkeborg have send me this picture. Wednesdays a couple of guys get together deep underground. Here they talk about days of summer and polish their cars in anticipation of warmer days.

Picnic - Fat Chicks welcome

Now there´s finally a danish type 3 register - and they´re planning a get-together for the big sisters of the vw family.
Visit Type3.dk from my links palette, and be sure to register if you have one of these beauties and live in DK.

Its a date!

"Bugs under Bøgen" is a small danish event in the small town of Ebeltoft.
Mark 17-19 august if you like a small and cosy event with some of DK´s finest.

Recovered!

This car was stolen and recovered. Hope this goes to show that crime doesn´t pay.

Flower pot

I´ve been making a flowery design for Annettes cream 1302. We are not sure about the colours, though.
Please comment and keep in mind this is a girls car, not a hard ass callooker.

Vintage Bug Selecta

Yesterday I came across these drawings I made in 2000. I assume everybody that takes the time to visit a blog as vw oriented as mine, knows the great opportunities of Bug Selecta, Bus Selecta, Type 3 Selecta and Porsche Selecta? But as you can see there was a time when I didn´t know and visualized my ideas "Flintstone style". The fastback I actually made as a surprise to my friend Thomas who passed away soon after. As some of you know, I still own the car. I know I have a lot of these drawings lying somewhere. Imagine if I find them seven years further down the line.. Wonder if you can make 3D models with your standard issue printer by then?

Stickin it to the man

Today I visited the police as the bus and the callooker was actually old enough to have vintage vehicle status. It felt good to hear the tight ass lady behind the counter say that testing of the vehicles where now at eight years apart instead of 2 years.
I´m all for testing though but when you have more than one car it gets a bit tedious, especially as the cars doesn´t get used that often. How about that policecar? Needs a wiff of the slammingstick don´t ya think?

Back on its feet

I finally got the parts for the rear brakes and could let the car back down from the axle stands. I borrowed Christian Duelunds stock wheels as I have not settled on wheel choice yet.

And dinky was his namo..

Helge from Custom Speed Parts just send me these pictures of a part of his toy collection. It feels good to know that people in the industry are themselves as big "nutters" as their customers. If you have pictures of period vw-related toys, accesories or memorabilia like Helge´s I would love to see it! Feel free to email me at post@gustavoghund.dk

Sheees a model...

If you have followed my blog from the beginning, you may remember I reflected on people being the most important thing of this hobby. That you´ll make good friends, not because of, but via the vintage iron that you own. Sometimes these friends go out of their way to keep or make you happy. How about a friend using his spare time building a model of your project, slammed correct color, year and all? I wouldn´t trade this hobby for weekends at a stadium yellin´my guts out at my "friends".

Pod cast

I´m trying to finish as many small parts for the 51 as possible right now. My friend Guller helps a lot by media blasting the metal parts on a one day return basis. At his work the coleagues asks if something is wrong if nothing is to be blasted on his lunch break! This week I was kind of confined to the homely quarters, so I brought home the dash pods and took them apart. I had a lot of help from the forum on theSamba.com. These things weren´t exactly made to be taken apart. The original owner had drilled a nasty hole in the clock pod for a switch for a 6V, three tone, air horn! The colors tricked me as one pod was painted different tones multiple times, then covered in black paint and crud. Next up is the gear lever, steering column and E-brake handle.

I always wanted to go there...

Through my motoring days, I have had my fair share of beetles painted. I have also been to a massive amount of shows and one thing has always puzzled me. Why does every beetle you see have paint peeling of at the ribs behind the air intake under the rear window. As my split window beetle was badly rusted on the inside the piece in question was to be cut out for access. I had it sandblasted and it is to be painted before we will reattach it to the now rustfree car. I hop this remedies the problem forever.

A nice rack

Peter kindly gave me this "Norema" roofrack he picked up for nearly nothing at a swapmeet in copenhagen. As peter is a beetle man himself, and the rack proofed to be of type 3 measurements, he opted to swap with me for a "cruiser pedal" for his heavily accesorized 1954 judson oval. The rack only had two wooden slats when Peter found it, so I had my dad make some up from a nice piece of oak. My dad is always busy although his not working anymore. He seems to find the time to help me though. I also like the thought of the machinery used for this little project is period perfect.

HATTY NEW YEAR!

Champagne - check
Fireworks - check
Balloons - where the hell are the balloons?

Happy new year guys...

Bad Camberg is coming closer...

Yesterday I trialfitted the body to the now nearly complete chassis. Even though I´m not any further than yesterday, seeing the two parts together rocked my world. Seeing the correct NOS exhaust pipe extruding from the now correct H-rear valance was the best! The photo is taken with my new phone. I hope to post a lot more now that I have the camera with me all the time.

Lower than mine

Allthough not a big fan of reposting, had to share this baby from the Samba with you.
I Think you´ll agree, this is lower than my razoredge...

Kriller carries on the torch

A lot of the guys that were in to the scene in a big way, when I first started has vanished from the surface of this old crusty planet. Some of them still has a car or two sitting around but is no longer a part of the community. It is sad to see old friends go, but as refreshing to see new guys come along. One of the new enthusiasts is "Kriller". Kriller is well known for building Denmarks first bay window pickup with a nasty sting of Stuttgart origin. The workhorse was sold off and Kriller spent time building a nice workshop, sharing the space with two good friends. But something itches in Krillers mind. This is his new toy. A 1956 cab, which has been slammed and torched before gettin´a set of desirable Cosmic wheels.

SNOT kills any enthusiasm

King Snot finally caught up with me. Saturday Guller and I played around with concrete at my house. Housebuilding is quite a different story than building a car. Loading tons of materials into the concreteblender in the pouring rain finally got the best of me. Sunday I had to pry myself out of the madras with my car keys before going to the infamous christmas party at "Angoraland". My body was broken! I took some pictures but snot on the lense made them go bad. Oh yeah, I finally found the ribbed semaphores for my 51 type 1. Sweet but not for free!