DTA Burnouts
To finish off an awesome day Stef & Jonno stepped up to lay some rubber down!
DTA BBQ (end of season meet) Thanks!
From everyone in DTA, thank you for coming to our end of season meet yesterday!
We will upload photos and an edit very soon.
DTA end of season meet – This Sunday! 21/10/12
This is a >Aircooled< vw meet
Westfalia SO33 Sub hatch
So with Si selling the oval, it was time to look for the new project.
“I first heard about this bus while we were in Spa. I got a picture message sent to me by Gareth Smith.
Well that was it, I had been looking for an original pint bus for some time. But nothing had come up “just right”.
The bus is a 1962 SO33 Westfalia in original paint Mouse Grey and Pearl White. The interior is amazingly complete and along having a sub hatch (all so33 had a sub hatch) I had to have it.
A couple of weeks passed and after looking at the same old photos I had to go and view it. i’ll let the photos tell you the rest.
Its completely original and is now having a new rear corner and batter tray courtesy of Matt Smitt (Smiths VW Cornwall).
Im sure looking at most of our club cars you will be able to guess how close this bus will sit to the floor….
67 cal look bug for sale and Matty’s 66 is still up for grabs. Oval and Panel are sold.
Stefan is selling his fully restored 1967 RHD cal look bug.
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Hi, Im looking into selling my 1967 beetle.
It can be sold with or without the Rancho box, Ercos and harnesses ect, it is all negotiable… The car had a FULL BODY OFF RESTO , bottom 6 inches replaced professionally by the Speedster Clinic and the chassis was painted and detailed 2 years ago. It has since driven 3500 miles. Most of the miles were carried out on trips to Spa this year and France in 2010. Body and chassis: Suspension: Interior: Other parts: Not including the engine this car cost 18k to build… 2276cc engine, MSD setup, Autometer tach and oil gauges not for sale with the car.
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DTA cars for sale.
Well we all like change now and then, and currently we have 3 cars for sale in the club. Mikes 56 bus, Mattys 66 and Si’s oval.
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MATTY’S 66
4″ Narrowed beam on a Red9Design Coilover conversion Kit. Rear spring plates are Red9 2″ Dropped ones, turned up 1 spline, to give the drop of about 2 1/2 splines, but the ride quality of 1 spline ! I hope you can all get your heads around that ! £4750 ono Offers welcome.     |
Si’s Oval
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UK rhd matching numbers.
-1956 -30hp (just gone to spa and back) wob abarth exhaust, it had a nos 28pci carb a few months ago + will include some nos engine bits -4″ slamwerks beam, cb spindles -flat4 fuchs 4.5/5.5 -design 90 centre caps -m7 porsche discs, dual circuit master cylinder. (hidden with volvo reservoir) -swf glass washer bottle & og tool wrap -awesome interior! headliner is art. small pin stripe on the glove box from neil singleton. -og beam will go with it -and one oval wing +a nos exhaust Hayburner feature (cover car), best bug @ bug jam 24? and soon to have a feature in vw scene germany (shot @spa) 07595304363 £7000    |
Mike’s 56 Panel —– SOLD——
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1956 built splitscreen panel van registered on 1/1/1957
dove blue, mostly original paint 1641cc engine, twin carbs, full flowed with a oil filter and temperature sender ….. 1600 gearbox straight axled with type 3 rear brakes 5″ narrowed and fully adjustable slamwerks beam with flipped spindles full width rock n roll bed original south african sprint star wheels with all good tyres 3 bow roof rack with original ladder, safari windows a great early bus that has been converted to 12 volt with all working semaphores and early parts such as ribbed bumpers, small back lights, ice pick door handles, small rear hatch and window etc …. Winner of ‘best bus’ at Big Bang 2012 ive just come back from an 800 miles round trip to ‘le bug show’ in spa Belgium last weekend and it was the best experience ever! £13995 or best offer ……. no part ex    |
DTA end of season meet
After the success of our (Stanford hall alternate) BBQ, we thought we could have another get together after an awesome show season. And of course before all you buffers put your cars into hibernation 😉
Dan du Cros will be on the BBQ cooking up his Family Butcher supplied meats! And we will have some tea and coffee.
Last time we had a peoples choice award and a slamwerks choice award also.
Fingers crossed we get good weather and if not we have a huge area indoors we can use also.
Of course this is a Aircooled vw meet
Le bug show – Spa Belgium
We all just got back from what we categorically agreed was the best show we have ever visited.
1000 miles, 6 aircooled cars and a bunch of mates.
– Not one breakdown (just some repairs at spa)
– 4 tanks of fuel each (9 for stef)
– 3 pairs of tyres
– 1 clutch fork
– 1 hub seal
– a couple of litres of oil….
– 1 inflatable doll
More pictures and a small write up will follow, for now its back to work.
Le bug show burn out
Progress on Pete’s fire bus
Pete writes…
So today I got my beloved burnt out bus back from the breakdown yard and got my first chance to look at it since I left it burnt out on the side of the A45 in Northampton.
It took a bit of effort o get it off the flatbed due to its lowness and 2 melted rear tyres but with help from a forklift raising the back end and the driver dragging the flatbed away from under it we got it off.
Got it straight up on the axel stands to see what it was like underneath.
Not too bad….anything rubber or plastic related had just melted, cv boots, flexi hoses for the breaks etc, but the gearbox and main chassis looked ok if not a bit scorched. The bottom half of the engine looked ok too, the top was pretty bad though.
The cab had completely melted, it was still attached to the inlet manifold but it looked like death.
All the electrical wires where stripped of their coating and the battery was completely melted as well with just the lead plates remaining.
We left the underside for now and concentrated on the interior.
It was really bad in there. Completely gutted, everything was bunt and it stank!
First job was to remove all our clothes beading etc from the back. There wasn’t much to save, if it wasn’t burnt it was soaking wet from the water used to put out the fire. Certain things where ok, James’ shaving bag which had shaving foam, moisturiser etc in it was a bit bunt the contents was completely fine.
After that we moved onto anything that was under the seat and got the seat out itself.
With the seat out we shoved up the rest of the shit and pulled of what was left off the floor.
The wooden base underneath seamed in quite good condition!
After that we got all the door cards off and pulled out the dash and the front seat.
With all the mess cleaned out the back.
We then took it round the back for a good blast with the pressure washer to dry and remove some of the dirt.
After this we when rolled it across into Mikes workshop to start the strip down of the engine.
Some of the items that kind of survived the fire
Rock and roll bed
Stereo
Pete’s Bus
As many people know. Our mate and dta member Pete Townley’s bus had a horrendous fire during our drive back from Bug Jam. Pete and James both escaped un harmed.
In Petes words
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