My birthday present.

Yesterday I got this inconspicuous looking coffee-table book from my beloved girl as my birthday present:


Here you can see the first page:


She made it especially for me, with a lot of pics of our cars and life:


(More to come)

On Duty

Today I received my second Picture book of Arnold Odermatt, who was an policeman in Switzerland.
In On Duty "Odermatt used his camera to recreate scenes from his days in law enforcement, spurred on by the fears of the shrinking Nidwalden police force, in hopes of enticing the village youth to join its increasingly unfashionable ranks. On Duty collects these images, which are populated by Odermatt’s colleagues re-enacting their daily adventures, in a compelling sequence of colourful tableaux. It is a strange and impressive document offering unexpected insight into a hidden world".
You can find my posting about his first book here: ‘Karambolage‘

New book...

Just have received my copy of this very cool book: SPEEDSEEKERS
Lots of cool pics from the history of drag and landspeedracing and a lot of infos and personalities.
Take a look at the official speedseekers homepage!

The Story of the Cal-Look

Got my signed (thanks Keith!) copy of Keith Seumes new book today. If you are interested in the history of Cal-Look VWs this book is a must have for you!


Some pics of a nowadays unusual choise of wheels:

I think this looks more common for most people:

And even some Type 3 lookers are inside:

Demon Bugs Chapter 8

The chapter 8 of 'Demon Bugs' is called expanding the family and is about Ghias, Type 3s and other aircooled models.



And there are two Fastbacks from Vienna in one pic. The yellow one belongs Marco of TBW and the other one is Martins 'Spinat' (spinach because of the colour). The pic was taken at Bitburg on DDD3.

Arnold Odermatt 'Karambolage'

Today I received a very cool book called 'Karambolage' by Arnold Odermatt. It is full with pics of cars involved in accidents. After taking a look you can imagine how many desireable cars were lost in the 60ies and 70ies. For more info about Arnold Odermatt read the text below the pics.





For 50 years, Arnold Odermatt documented traffic accidents on the roads of the Swiss canton of Niwalden. The former first lieutenant was a police photographer and his pictures served as evidence. He considered skilled precision as the absolute basis of his profession: “A good photo is in focus, you have to be able to see everything that you want,” was Odermatt’s creed. His technical equipment consisted of a Rolleiflex camera, a tripod and a magnesium cartridge to illuminate scenes of accidents at night as brightly as if it were day, for a full 13 seconds. In the mid 1990s, when Arnold Odermatt was already a pensioner, the photos he had taken in his professional capacity were discovered by the international art world.
Wrecked cars, asphalt and chalk lines: although Arnold Odermatt’s photographs were exclusively intended for official use, they are a far cry from mere descriptions of facts as befits a police photographer. Some of the crashed cars lie like giant beetles helplessly on their backs, others stare at the camera with one eye, gnashing their radiator teeth or have submitted to their fate and try to claim our pity for their state. Odermatt’s gaze does not stop at the damaged vehicles, his shots also catch the ostensibly unimportant surroundings of the scene: a threatening sky, a mountain panorama shrouded in mist, a crowd of onlookers at the scene of an accident. Strange perhaps, or maybe not, that for all the innate destructive element in these crashes, the pictures have nothing spectacular about them: the small dramas which we witness here could at best threaten the idyll of small Swiss towns, but could not undermine them. Odermatt’s world is well kept, orderly and peacefully dented.

Some out of my collection...

here you have some mags out of my 'timeless' collection:
(This is the place where you can find real informations)