With a little help from my friend...

The weather.

 

The leading roll

The end 

See what really happend in between.

Coming soon

Friday is Notchday

Remember?

Found that in June.

After a half year of waiting this coming Friday I´ll pick up my Notch.

Max "der_fahrer" will help me and is responsible

for a full documentation.

 

1500S Notch Lowmiler

Congrats to the Birch!

More about this suuuupersexy Notch on his Blog:

http://birch-green.blogspot.com/

I´m glad to see this beauty comes in good hands.

Life is coming back to the barn

And yesss, the whorstback is back.

The 740 starts to says goodbye to this World.

No Barntime this summer : (

F. was on vacation the hole summer and I was 

too much busy to spend time to the Barn or my projects.

There was just a little session on the end of July to 

make some TLC to the Hulk.

It sat in some garages the last 10 years, awaiting its reanimation.

After i found the title for it at home I get hungry for it.

It runs after 10 minutes of trying to start but the clutch won´t work.

I disassembled everything to change the clutch and 

unfortunally I broke me two fingers on the left hand 

with a hammer.. what a nice experience..
A friend who was visiting me in the Barn left me just minutes before,
so i drove to the Hospital with the Manta by myselfe,
A very nice experience too.

Since this i wasnt in the Barn and the Smallframe lays 
on the floor with the inside out,

  surrounded of some tools and things.

I guess F. hates me for not cleaning up the Barn 

after i broke my fingers...

Cheers

Drag´n Babe

Austrian car and nice ideas.

Let`s see what he is really build out of 

that Steyr 55 "Baby".

Click the Pic for this awsome project

Arrivals this Week

Volvo 740GL, a partscar for my 940

pic by EB

1969 Iberianred 1600TLE FI 

egay pic

1967 Seasand 1500N

Should arrive this week too.

pic by Pepitant

And if I´m lucky enough we will welcome my Notch on Sunday.

After 6 weeks we have full house..

Barnactivities part II

Today, I was finishing the workbench.

All it needs to be finished it is some wireing 

and two shelfes for both storetrays.

My old Ikea CD storage "Benno"

was getting a new challange too.

Measurements are 240 x 60 x 95

Workshelf is made of  Birchwood

Wheight: ca 85Kg

It was taking 12 hours to build.

At Benno our Barn-HiFi find a new home.

Radio/CD, amplifier , a active 3-way frequency switch

and the power supply for all sit behind the white cover.

Power supply and light switch on the right.

A good Workbench needs his own VIN.
´73 Squareback in that case.. ; )

Barnactivities

F. is going to break the longtime record 

in slaming a Squareback.

2 Weeks and no end in sight.. ; )

My son was doing a complete overhaul of the engine in the meanwhile.

I´ve started to build our workbench.

Naturally not without the help of my son.

Ran out of screws so the workbench enjoys a little break till tomorrow.

Mainframe is done and those two boxes will 

get modified to drawers tomorrow.

1965 1500S Notch barnfind

Ok.

The car problem about the rims is solved.

Bought me a 1965 1500S Notchback today at the austrian province of Waldviertel.

It was driven in this barn back in 1988 and sat there till now.

Interior is in good shape because the seats where allways covered with red seatcovers.

The whole car is a perfect base to build something nice out of it.

No missing parts and some boxes full of parts (some of them NOS in original Boxes) comes

with the car. 

Austrian title and the keys too.

As fas as I saw there is not much to weld, but I never trust a Type3 before  

I havent seen every area after some disassembling.

Sorry about the bad Iphone-pics, but i was too much excited about this find

and forgot to take more pictures or check quality of them.

Because of my time intensive job at the moment,

it will take some weeks before the Noch arrives to our barn,

so please be patient if you want to see mor of it.

Good things takes longer somtimes

sleehw shcuF

Bought me some rims today.. 

Original stuff.

Now, just a car for them is missing..

And tires..

The ´76 1. PO Manta or my confession to the aircooled scene

Some people say the biggest sin for a mid-european

aircooled VW guy is to drive an Opel.

But the absolute whorst case is to drive an Opel Manta.

Whatever...I dont care about that.

And here is the reason why:

One of the first Manta B Opel build back in 1976.

This is a unrestored survivor car.

This car is completly stock and covered just 86000 km´s.

Full stamped servicebook and a interior like new included.

Had much fun with it the last 2,5 years.

Its naturally not in showroom condition but rustfree

and untouched.Perfect enough for me to have fun with

it in the future too.

 

be there

More stuff

My ex `65 Pigalle and a few more boxes full of stuff arrived this week.

white ratpack

In the next time big  F. will bring two more Bugs to the barn.

And this guy is our security-manager

so, please dont come and visit the barn

whithout fixing an appointment before.

He is such a humorless bastard..

For the future the first projekt I want to reralize is

to build a small but usefull workbench for us.

Sorry for this amatuer sketch.

Was doing that in minutes at a very important

meeting at work.. ;) 

More of our Bench at one of the next posts.

Keep watching

 

fill it

Put some stuff in the barn.

Mr.F´s Whorstback arrived too.

In my opinion this Square just need its original 

headlights and indicators back,

a nice set of Fuchs rims and 

a full "slamitsession" .

This ride could be such a nice supershitlooker.

I love its home made rockers and 

belive it or not, this peace of crap

is´nt far to get a full austrian MOT!

75m² of freedom

This is just to get an idea what we are talking about.