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Hello VW fans. I was at the Bremen Classic Motorshow on Saturday 3. February 2018. When I arrived at 9:30 in the morning it was already very busy. The special exhibition was “Gran Turismo 2+2“ performance and luxury automobile. The BCM 2018 was nice and below is a selection of 44 pics of the Bremen Classic Motorshow in order as...

Hello VW Fans. I was at the Käfer Wintertreffen #10 in Herford Germany on Saturday 13 January 2018. I started with my 1969 VW Beetle in Bremen at about 8:45 a.m. and arrived about 2 hours later in Herford. On the way to the show I saw the Herforder Pilz brewery and so I had to stop there to take...

Hello VW Fans. I visited the Jogja VW Festival #3 in Yogyakarta Indonesia on 17-18-19 November 2017. The Jogja Volkswagen Festival (JVWF) took place at the Jogja Expo Center (JEC) and it is the biggest indoor VW show in Asia which is organized by Volkswagen Club Yogyakarta. In 2014 I travelled 4 month trough Indonesia and I saw many old...

Hello VW fans. I visited the Bus Brigade Nord season closing VW meeting at the Grauerort fortress on Saturday 23 September 2017. Grauerort fortress is a German artillery fort near Stade and 50 Kilometers from Hamburg. My 1969 VW 1500 Bug made the trip successfully and the GPS top speed on the Autobahn was 140 km/h (86 mph). Well done...

Hello VW Fans. The Classic in Costa Mesa California was calling classiccult again on Saturday June 17 2017. The day before was the DKP Pre-Classic Cruise Night and the weekend before was El Prado Show & Shine and OCTO VW Bus Meet. Within 2 weekends I enjoyed 4 great VW shows in California. As in 2016 The Classic was at...

Hello VW Fans. I had good times the DKP Pre-Classic in 2016 and so California was calling me again 2017. The DKP Pre-Classic Cruise Night was on Friday the 16th June 2017 on Main Street in Garden Grove Orange County. The event is organized by Der Kleiner Panzers, which is southern California most famous Volkswagen Club. The weekend before was...

Hello VW Fans. I visited the El Prado VW Show in Chino California 2017. After I was at The Classic in Costa Mesa in 2016 I knew I had to come back to visit El Prado Show & Shine. The Show is presented by Vintage Transporter Owners (VTO) & Just Cruzin South California VW Club and the location was at...

Hello VW Fans. I was in Chimay Belgium from 1th to 2th July 2017 to visit the European Bug-In #7 VW Show. My 1969 VW 1500 Beetle made the 1200 km round trip very well. Only one windshield wiper arm gave up the service because the screw had loosened. But that was easy to fix and so the continuous rain...

Hello VW Fans. I visited the 7th International Vintage VW Show in Hessisch Oldendorf on Saturday the 24th June 2017. It was a dream! I drove with my 69 Bug from Bremen to Hessisch Oldendorf and arrived at the camping area at 5:45 early in the morning. At that time I could listen to birds and snoring VW fans in...

Hello VW Fans. I visited the OCTO VW Bus Meeting on Saturday the 10th June 2017 in Long Beach California. The meeting was organized by the Orange County Transporter Organization (O.C.T.O.) VW Club for 1967 and earlier Volkswagen buses. The O.C.T.O 2017 was at the El Prado Show & Shine weekend and as in 2016 it was great again to...

I have an original Blaupunkt Mannheim radio in my 1969 Beetle and it runs with the original speaker. I also ordered a new speaker from retro sound, which is great, but I was too lazy to install it. I put also a special Blaupunkt DIN cable connector in the rear of the radio which makes it possible to connect two...

Hello VW Fans. I visited the Maikäfertreffen #34 in Hannover on Monday the 1th May 2017 with my 1969 VW Beetle. My VW 1500 made the 250 kilometers from Bremen to Hannover and return successfully. I am used to 30 and 34 horsepower Beetles and my new VW 1500 with 44 horsepower is a fast Bug. I arrived at 7:25...