Future DVF Late Lookers

Speaking of Late Lookers, some time in the near future, DVF will be featuring two Late Lookers of their own.

The red one is Wimme's project called El Picaro. It's based around a 86 Mexico bug which is in still a project currently. El Picaro will be painted in VW Paprika red, rolling on detailled Pedrini's and some more fine extra's...

The second one is Messie's future ride. This time the base for this Late Looker is a 68 1500 model.
Messie has allready made some tough decisions about the colr and the wheels. As you can see the color has been set on a Porsche bleu and the wheels will be Fuchs (but the easy to get Flat 4 versions) so this Looker will sport some lovely Porsche details.

And the rumour goes that DVF will have another Late Looker. Jelle's is out on the search for a good late model bug as well to transform into a fine 80'ies inspired late one. Go for it Jelle. Give those late bugs the respect they deserve...

Late Lookers made in Japan

I've been reading the new Ultra VW which covers a report about the worlds best Cal Look clubs.
One of these are the Japanese hosted Der Winning Bug so I visited their webside.
To my surprise it's one of the only Cal Look clubs that features a whole bunch of Late Lookers.
The pictures below show the two most beautiful post 67 bugs.
I just love this one, maybe it has something to do with those very sexy detailed Pedrini's.Just look at them, just perfect wheels for your Late Lookers, this time not painted black but a dark shade of grey. Real wheels porn to me.

The one obove also caught my attention. This time, this late one even lost its chrome trim. The only thing I'm not a fan off are thos elephant style rearlights. I prefer the smaller ones...

But a perfect ride if you ask me...

Season opener at Ninove

Just go to the beautiful town of Ninove on the 9th of March for the season opener.

C U all there....

Bugtour 5

No need to wash your car for the Fifth Edition of the BUGTOUR on the 20th of April...

Just join in here and get dirty...

Bugtour 2008

The Bugtour is coming closer so DVF is working hard to things sorted out so it will be a day of air cooled VW fun.
The Bugtour-site is fully operational so if you want to join in, fill out the subscription form and your seat is reserved...

Dave's project

Here are some pictures of the progress on Dave's ride.
It's always a nice place to work at Dave's garage, sometimes a little difficult to stay focused with all those nice ladies, but that's the challenge.
The damages parts have been taken off so a closer examination is possible. Things looked worse when the car was standing there, but now things are fully on show, I think the inner front wing is repairable...

DVF photoshoot

This morning, DVF has held a photoshoot for the Bugtour. Luckely the heathing was on so we could pos in our favorite summer outfits.Suddenly, Jelle started to pray to the DVF gods, guess he must really like it here in Ghent among aircooled friends.
And while Jelle was praying, Timme was trying to put some new life in this tree by inserting some of his finest seeds...
Damn, we have some crazy people in our rankings...

My Own Project: the GAS-bus

While on the topic of projects: I also did find some time to get the steering sorted on the GAS-bus.

A reconditioned steeringhouse has been fitted, the steeringcolom got repainted and a new contactswitch has been intergrated (not an original one because the ones for early bays seem impossible to get).

This way, the steering is sorted out and the bus now turns without a single noise as it should.

In the meantime, some more engine parts did arrive as well.

As I want to keep the bus hot in the cold winter times but with a more powerfull exhaust for the prepped engine, big-bore heatherboxes where ordered. The 38mm merged header will be adapted the line up with the heatherboxes and while working on it and welding it all back together a fuel ratio sensor will be crafted in to monitor the escaping gasses and fine tune to reconditioned 36 IDF's.

Dave's project got started as well

The picture above was once Dave's very fine bug. But one time, disater struck and a ball joit decided to come apart.

A lot of damage was done to this perfect ride and a lot of thing got bended.

After some time being left alone, Dave has grabbed to bull by the horns and got started on restoring the ride to its previous glory.

I didn't recieve any pictures of the progress yet, but as soon as I recieve them, I'll pos them and keep you updated.

Another DVF project in the runnin

A lot of projects are curently being built among the DVF-members.

For example, herr Gunter is rebuilding a Karmann Ghia. The front end was in pretty bad shape so no corners were cut and a better front end from a donor will be crafted in.

It seems like the Karmann will need some more work to get it roadworthy again.
I hope to see this project finished soon as it will be a very fine ride...