Pedaling

Sometimes it amazes me just how many accessories were made for the Volkswagen during the 50ies and 60ies.
Take for instance the pedals, there shouldn't be much to change there?
But if you own a car old enough to have the roller speeder pedal then you can ad a "cruiser" pedal, I have heard different stories about why they mounted them, one goes that women in high heals couldn't drive with the roller, another say that it was easier on the long runs.
Another accessory not so well known as the cruiser pedal, is a little pedal for your dimmer switch for your high beam light.
I really don´t know much about this and for me it seems equally easy to flip the lights if it´s there or not, but off course I have both in the oval even though none of them are necessary for driving the car, but that is what accessories are all about isn't?

Kaco light

Here the Kaco light is shown in a vw accessory brochure from 1959.

This little light called Kaco isn't only an old accessory you can put on your car for shows, it could also come in very handy if you should have a break down at night.
I have a few of these for sale, drop me a email if interested.

Swap meet

This saturday morning at 5am, Jens and I started out from my house in his oval to check out a swapmeet none of us ever had attended before.
It was a little swapmeet but it was free to get in, only the sellers had to pay a symbolic fee. It was very cool as many both sellers and visitors were driving in their vintage cars or motorcycles. We didn't make any heart stopping scores, but there were several small parts on the backseat with us home anyway.

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Saving old metal

Last year I got hold of some old original mid 50ies fenders, I have for a long time wanted a set of these, so they could get on the car some time in the future.
They weren't exactly NOS items, but they looked restorable.
A couple of weeks ago I finally started on them, first I had to scrape enough sealing wax of the underside of the front fenders to make tarmac enough for 1km highway :-) When that was done I started welding and the right side fender is now finished and the left is on it´s way.
Anybody know of a good rear right side pre 1960 fender?
Or maybe only the front part of one? I need that to have a complete set.
Here is some pictures of the left front fender, more will follow as I make some progress.

Kübel cruising

A couple of years ago the owner of the 48 rollback I posted a couple a weeks ago, took me and my friend Christian on some serious off roading in his 43 kübel.
That was one hell of a day.

Trailer Queen

I am not big fan of people trailering their cars to shows, afterall it´s a car and is ment to be driven! But if this pulled up at I show I would buy the guy a beer :-)