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Hit girl, and accessory roof tent in the same picture what more do you want?
I always liked those roof tents, but I never could get myself to put all that extra weight on those poor raingutters.

Nice company

Last friday I attended yet another classic car meet.
It have only existed for 5 years. Back then I was there for the first meeting and I guess there was about 30-40 cars. This year we were over 200.
Not much say about the meeting besides mentioning the car I was parked beside, it was a 1938 Mercedes and it was oh so cool!

The wolf is protecting the oval

Several years ago I bought this gear stick lock from a danish collector. It was in a nice shape and even had "the always missing" rubber boot with it. But it was missing the key, and as a person always wanting my things to work, and not just to put items on the car not forfilling the purpose, it is intented to do, I dropped it of at my local locksmith. For a fair price he unlocked it and made me 2 new keys. But I must admit that it have only been locked 5-10 times, but the important thing is that I know it works.
There are several styles of locks and I will not tell about them all since I don´t have that much knowledge about them. But I think they are cool!!

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Saving old metal part 3

I was recommended another sandblaster than I normally use. So I called him yesterday to get the front fenders blasted. And he turned out to be just the right man for the job! Not only could I pick both fenders up after only 2 hours, but he was also cheap at price and very very good at his job! So today I have closed most of the small holes after the blasting, and I only need to replace one of the wire tubes.

Picking up parts

On Jens and my recent trip - the Bug´s Funny meeting - we started off from home with a hidden agenda: we were out to pick up parts in the other end of the country that we not usually visit.
And we both came home very happy, the score was: 1 30hp flywheel that have been lighted and balanced for the Express engine, 1 rear left side original pre 1960 fender, it´s completely rot free the only little problem was some dents near the runningboard, but I have already taken care of that, and a set of almost rot free 1954 doors with everything on them, glass, handles etc, and a NOS Hella spotlight mirror for mounting on the hinge pin on the door. Jens came home with a right side pre 64 pop out window.
Even though we came home with all these parts, it turned out that we now need parts that we didn´t need before. I need 1 orginal right rear side pre 1960 fender maybe even only the front half of one, I also need the mounting arm for my Hella spotlight.
And Jens needs a left side pre 1964 pop out, do you have any of these parts then feel free to email me.

Saving old metal part 2

My 2 front fenders are now almost rot free, that is really nice, but the left one was quite a bitch! The hole lower part of it was almost gone. I took a repro fender I had lying as a donor, only problem is that not even the lower part of a org and a repro fender are exchangeable. the curve were no where near the same! but with a little work and some patience it became quite good if I should say so myself.
Next up blasting and taking care of some small dents and of course the holes that properly will appear after the blasting.