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Hello VW Fans. I visited the Super VW Festival #2 at the 24 Hours Le Mans race track in France 2015. I started on Saturday July 25 in Bremen Germany with an Air France flight to Paris and drove with a rental car 240 kilometer to the Super VW Fest where I arrived at lunch time. First I stopped at...

Hello VW Fans. I visited the 29th Bug Jam VW Festival 2015 at Santa Pod Raceway United Kingdom. I got up on Saturday July 18 at 5:00 a.m. in Bremen Germany, had a Ryanair flight and then 75 miles with a rental car from London Stansted to Santa Pod Raceway, where I arrived at about 10:00 a.m.. After 70 GBP...

I visited the 15th Garbojama 2015 VW Show (Zlot garbusów) in Krakow Poland. The event was from 9 - 12 July in Kryspinów (Budzyń-Cholerzyn) which is 14 kilometer west of Krakow in Poland at two beautiful lakes. Before the VW meeting, I travelled in Poland from Warsaw to Wrocław, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Black Madonna of Częstochowa and arrived at the Garbojama Zlot...

Hello VW Fans. I visited the European Bug-In #6 VW Show in Chimay Belgium from 27th to 28th June 2015. I was the first at the EBI and it was great. My 59 VW Beetle made the 1200 km trip very well. I started in Germany on Friday the 26th June and arrived at Brussels Atomium at lunch time. On...

I visited the 10th International Bad Camberger VW Veteranen Treffen on Saturday the 20th June. My VW Beetle made the 400 km trip from Bremen to Bad Camberg very well. The show takes place only once every 4 years and only the very old VWs like Split, Oval and T1 are allowed. I parked with my 1959 VW Beetle in...

Am 1. Mai 2015 war das 32. Maikäfertreffen (MKT) in Hannover. Ich bin um 7:30 mit meinem 59er Käfer angekommen und um 7:45 war ich auf dem Parkplatz. Die Langschläfer standen später ca. 1 Stunde vor dem Messeparkplatz im Volkswagen Stau. Bis 9:00 Uhr war es schön sonnig und dann über den Tag bewölkt mit ein paar sonnigen Abschnitten. Ich...

I visited the Volksworld VW Show on Sunday the 29th March 2015. As always, the show took place at the Sandown Park Racecourse in Esher, Surrey which is about 30 minutes from Central London. I arrived in London with Ryanair on Saturday and drove Sunday to the Volksworld Show.It was rainy all over the day but not too bad and...

Hello VW Fans. The Siam VW Festival 2015 was on Saturday the 7th March in Bangkok Thailand. I visited the Siam VW Show 2014 and I can highly recommend this event. As always, the classic Volkswagen Show took place at The Wonder World Fun Park off Ramintra Road KM10. Please take a look at about 40 great pictures of the...

I was at the Bremen Classic Motorshow today February 8, 2015. The BCM classic car exhibition took place at ÖVB-Arena which is near the central railway station. I arrived at 9:00 a.m. and it was very pleasant till about 11:00. AT lunch time it was totally crowded, so that I left AT 13:30. This year was a special exhibition with...

The VW Dienst offered an additional heated rear window for classic VW Beetle, Bus, Type 3 and Karmann Ghia. The vintage VW had no heated rear window from factory, so the installation by the VW Dienst helps to get a good visibility in the winter. Below the mounting instructions for the 6V and 12V additional heated rear window for classic...

Hello VW Fans. I visited Borneo Island in Malaysia between April and May 2014 for nature and wildlife. While travelling through Borneo, I saw lots of palm oil plantations but also a few classic VW Beetles. After my trip through the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak I went to Borneo Indonesia and then to Kuala Lumpur. The Classic VW...

Hello VW Fans. In 2014, I had the pleasure, to travel for 4 month through Indonesia to Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Sulawesi, Maluku, Papua and Kalimantan. On the way, I saw sometimes quite a few old VWs but often nothing at all. Most classic Volkswagens, like the Brazilian Bay Bus, 181 and Beetle, are running on Java and Bali. At...