Relaunch of Volksworld homepage

Very nice relaunch of the Volksworld homepage.
http://www.volksworld.co.uk/

Don't praise the day before the evening...

Vote for choise of wheels for 2008.

As there is a new function on 'blogger.com' I just wanted to test it. Please vote for the choise of wheels for the next season. After the end of the voting I will let you know if I agree with your choise. Have fun.


Fuchs

Gasburners

Ercos

Please do not do this to your Ghia!

Found this example of a 'tasteful change' for sale on the samba homepage. The price is only 250000 THB (around 4750.-EUR). If you always wanted to have a one-off-a-kind Ghia, this should be your choise.

Fontanagrey

As you can see I changed the color of the background. This is just to intruduce my ride for the upcoming winterseason. A 66 Fontanagrey beetle. It will have only a few modifications: Narrowed and lowered front, wooden steering wheel, Empi-shifter, T-bars and new BRM repros.


It is the grey one, not the nice beetle on the left!!!

Stay tuned.

Dragracing with Mexx

Two weeks ago we went to Hungary with our fastest local Karmann driven by 'Mexx'.



Mounting the racetires:


Cool looking car, isn't it?


Waiting for the run:


Unfortunatly the 'NOS' bottle was empty due to an leaking valve! So he has to go with only about 220HP instead of around 450HP!! (This car has done a 10sec run before!!)


Some motorcycle riders scared me by srewing down the fork with one!! 10mm threaded rod and doing 10sec runs in jeans and sneakers. Luckily nobody was hurt.

1110.- Euros for a Single Cab

I found this one on ebay. The price reached 1110.-EUR! I prefer to buy my winter beetle for this money.

Hot Summer Nites

It was the last 'Hot Summer Nite' for 2007.
See you next year.

Some new pics of my Type 34

Streetlegal?

I think Franz of KCW is lucky to live in the US, to have this car streetlegal:

Computer Slamming

This guy knows exactly what we want. And he does it virtually for us:




Take a look at his website for much more cool pics, by clicking the headline.

The story of the 'Zingers'

In the early 70's, MPC issued a line of kits called Zingers that were caricatures of cars(and a semi). Most of them consisted of a body that was sized and detailed to accurate scale with wheels/tires and an engine that were wildly out of scale to the body. The built kits were fairly small, about 4" long. After the Zingers came the Super Zingers, the same as Zingers in concept, but the overall scale was larger and there was a bit more detail. There were 2 Super Zingers issued.

It would appear that there were 2 issues of the Zinger kits. The first issue boxes had artwork of the kits and were issued in the early 70's (price- 1.25!!). The 2nd issue came out in the mid-70's, and had photos of the finished models on the boxes instead of the artwork.

There were also full sized versions of many of the Zingers built for the show car circuit in the early 70's as can be seen in the pic above. I have a 1972 ICAS Hot Rod Show World annual that has a full color spread of 6 different full size Zingers, and are they awesome! The bodies are about 1/2 the size of an actual vehicle, but the engines, wheels and tires are actual drag racing components. The overall engine to body ratio is the same as the models. I don't think any of them actually ran, but hey, they're cool!