I did it!

I finally found the courage to recharge my drilling machine and drill the hole for the Dehne ashtray light! The hardest part was actually to measure it out so it was placed exactly in middle of the ashtray. It is not easy when all the corners are rounded.
But I found a way and now it sits there, and I must say I haven´t regretted putting it in the car, even though I don´t smoke, but on the other hand I will confess and say that it doesn´t make much light, it´s only a 6v 1,2w bulb, the same type as in the speedo, does anybody know if it´s possible to them in let´s say 2w? Please contact if you do.

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Break down

On the way home from work :-(


The head on the "new engine, how clean is that?

Once again I have to apologise for not posting, but my week started like this.
Up bright and early to get work, fired up the oval and got about 5km from home when a strange sound accured, it was hard to determine what it was, so I decided it had to be a hole in the exhaust.
When I arrived at work I definitely could hear, that this was no exhaust problem!
It was a strange knocking sound that followed the rpm´s......
So didn´t dare to drive it home. Lucky for me, Jens was able to borrow a truck and came and picked me and the oval up.
After some listening to the engine, I decided that it had to be a bad rod bearing, and with the sun shinning, there was no time to waste with tearing the engine apart!
So I took 1 of my industrial engines with less than 20 hours on it, stripped it down to a long block, and moved all the parts from the "bad" engine over to the "new" one, and already tuesday night it was mounted in the car and running.
I have now driven approximately 100km with it and it really sounds healhty and is running good!
Now I just have to assemble the other engine to find out if I am right.

Triple tripping

Here is my own.


Here is Jens in his 54.


Here is Pouls in his 58 vert.

For years I have been looking for a 120km trip speedo, i can´t count how many speedos that I have turned over at swapmeets just hoping for it to be there!
Then a couple of months ago I found one only 130km from my home i directly drove out and bought it, it dated 4/56 then a week later My friend Jens found one in the other end of the country dated 59, an yet 1 month later my friend Poul got one dated 58. I can´t believe that i´ve been looking for it so long when they just seem to be everywere.

Magazines

I just scored a batch of the danish version the well known magazine "Gute Fahrt" in danish called "Kør Godt"
These are really good reading, and nice to see all the period pictures of cars and accessories in them.

356 Pulley

A couple of weeks ago I had some parts for sale on thesamba.com, and a guy showed interest for one of the pieces. After some emails forth and back it turned out he had some parts I needed so we simply swapped parts, a nice way to get some the stuff you want without getting your wallet up :-)
The result for me arrived with post today, this porche 356 style crank pulley, I think it looks really cool and will look so nice on my Express engine, which reminds me I better start working on that Express project again soon.
The reason I don´t use a original porche pulley is that they don´t have the groove towards the crank to keep the oil in, they use a sandseal, you can also convert your vw engine to this but this is easier since the engine won't be taken apart.
Thanks for the deal Al.

Meet the Albert´s

A well known accessory mirror is the Albert mirrors.
These things mounts to the front quarter panels in the first of your clip holes, which means that you will have to cut your trim a little to mount them.
I was lucky enough to find a NOS right one some years back and the a friend gave me the used left side that I got recromed to suit the right side properly.
Since then my good friend Jens bought himself a complete org set to, so now we both have 54´s with Albert´s.
Funny thing is that they aren´t exactly good to see in, and are a real nightmare to adjust! But looks really cool!