Brighton Breeze 2011.

Well what a stonking breeze this was the trun out of vehicles was and yet again the quality of some of the vans outstanding, obviuosly this is dependant on what your preference's are, Me i just have a love for air cooled no matter what.
The weather this year can only be decribed as blessed the sun was fantastic and made the event better than ever it superb to see what is basically the last event of the calender go out on such a high & we only have the swap meet at slough and the Ace cafe to run with till spring, the crew tht host the event no need to mention names on here as you know who you are and the true enthusiasts also know; But a big thanks to you all, this year my self and some excellent friends you all know who you are made a hastily put together plan, We met up at an agreed rondavous point and had our selves a small convoy of VW'Sand headed off to brighton, This was the first time i had been to brighton with a number of other freinds and did make the trip down so much the better. safety in numbers as i found out on my way home! Yep the bus let me down she was coughing and sputtering we had to pull in at wisley off the A3, Fortunatley My most excellent friend Claude carrys a multitude of spares once we identified it waas the coil breaking down we swapped it for his spare and back on the road & headed home no more issue from there.

Appologies to spike & Zoe i did not get a picture of your bus.

Any way below are some pictures to mark the event, Enjoy and feel free to take the piss !!!!

Dave & Claude waiting for thr queue to move.

Excellent i loved the stance on this Bus.

Bare metal with Hood ride Logo etched in Nice & Different.

Type 181 want one.

Loads of Choppers about & these one's had strayed from the nudist beach ;-)

Loved this bus i wished mine looked this good.

If it was mine i stick a motor in it !

In my mind this one should have got best of Show a wicked bus.

Early bugs gotta luv em.

This was really cool and different, but unfortunatley for the owner the wrong kind of different.

The Young & Oldish! generation taking a dip

Just the young in this one.

I know how it looks but Honest Ellie was not sick in that bag !

And Tim had not had anything to drink it just looks that way.

My Mellie waiting to go to bed the first time anyone had kipped in this bus in probably over thirteen years

Those cutains you see in Claudes bus are magnetic how bloody cool is that, stroke of genius and no holes drilled in ya splitty i think he may of hit a good marketing strategy there.

All patiantly waiting for the pizza's to arrive.

Amelias flashy hair.

Zoe relaxing with a drinky poo.

Claude with a beer & jean with a lamp !!!!

There was so many vans it was incredible.

Sum rise was amazing.

We won a hello kitty from a grabber machine.

Just thought this was a cool picture.

Weather was glorious.

How calm is that water.

Last pictures of Pauls Bay.

It was only the other day when i was putting on the Ace cafe entry i realised i had not put on the last pictures of the work i had done on The above mentioned Bay. So i believe looking back i had just completed the front valance. So just the sill to complete and a few cosmetic bits and its back to Paul.
These pics are tha last ones i took and the van went back to paul a few weeks back but better late than never.



Sill ready to go back in.



Tacked in place.



This was either Dave or Tim not Actually sure though.

Exhaust Repair.

Well as you probably know in my last post from the ace cafe on the way home i had a small problem with the old girl not running quite right. she had a couple of coughs and a fart and then a bang a realy big bang & unfortunatley my exhaust was not best happy about reiceveing the increased load of unspent mixture entering it's orofice and at the point of re-fire the exhaust did not find containing such copiace amounts of igniting mixture easy to control, And as such we ended with a hole in my box larger than a porn queen's ring piece after a gang bang.

So i took a look on Vw heritage to get a price for a new silencer, Man what the fuck is going on £107.00 for a box i bought mine two years ago and with the four branch i paid £149.00 for the pair, i understand prices go up but man i could have wept, any way so i thought its no good i may have to fix it and keep the one got, so thats what i did £107.00 kiss my Arse.

Any way i took afew pictures of the repair for the blog see below.

See the swelling thats a back fire & a half

hat do you recon to that then BOOM !

End removed i had to split the pressed seems

It even mullered the inside.

Another one of the inside.

Cleaned up and a knock about to straighten.

Before i used the hammer.

And yep you got it after you clever Sods !

Ready to weld the thing back up.

Welded.

Not  a bad job if i say so myself.

Tidy enought.

Back in place.

Jobs a Good One.

Ace cafe September 2011

Well people another month has flewn past with each month the Bus & bug become ever more Classic unfortunatley so do i, especially in the mornings god somedays i feel like shit & old & knackered think i may start sitting for the obligatory morning Squirt. Back to the Ace, Well i undertook my usual chore of putting a note on the lowlifes page just to remind the fellow enthusiast's that it was on & got a excellent responce and at one point we were on the verge of a magnificant seven vehicles but alas in the end we managed Five.
These being Myself obviously(what a dork) Dave Clarke the green Bay (SHREK) Claude with that most excellent Split, Dave & Angela Harvey he was in his Comic relief Beetle rather than his split its havin some love done to the motor & Joe Newell Blue & white bay totally sweet ride Dude. my self & Dave met at the junction car park by Frankie & bennies then moved off and Met Claude, Dave & Angela on the Bypass then on to Denham to meet Joe newell then on to the ace, after a bit of a chat & the Harveys had devoured a curry we mooched around outside till leaving time. On the way back my bus started to pop & Bang it was so bad by the time we were near home it was backfiring really bad, in fact so bad it blew the exhaust apart, Me & Tim shit our selves funny as fuck you had to be there.

Pic's below.



How mad is this, Definatly a mobile home in the making.



This just always looks ssssoooo good!



Dont bloody lie we all realy want One earlier the better.



Dave & Angela harveys Comic relief Bug.



Right to Left Angela, Joe, Dave, & Joes sister !



Sweet !



Dave i hope you not peeing up that van.



Claude still trying to work out how to use his mobile.



Took pics of this at Dubs in the park Love this ride.



Theres acompany on Ebay selling these bodys New made type in hot rod find the dorset bodys thats them.



Aylesbury low lifes line up.



The Low Lifes of Aylesbury ! OOP'S the Aylesbury Low lifes Mistaake !