Georgsmarienhuette - Type 34s - Part 2

There were quite a lot of later cars there including one of the latest automatic 69 models known (owned by Joachim Linder) and a green sunroof model owned by a local VW dealership and displayed with an early paint and material swatch book in the back window.

Georgsmarienhuette - Type 34s - Part 1

Here are photos of some of the Type34s at the meeting - the overall standard of the cars was very good. The pale yellow prototype 341 is chassis number 15,000 and the white 341 belongs to Joerg Fischer and is outstanding. The white 62 at the start of the small line up is Johannes Krassenbrink's fantastically original car. Our roulette green 65 model car covered the 1,200 odd miles with no problem other than a bit of lazy starting, due to my adjusting the slow running jets and a noisy bearing from the reconditioned generator that I fitted recently.

Tin Plate Type 34

Went to the celebration of 50 years of the launch of the type 14 Karmann Ghia convertible in Georgsmarienhütte, Germany over the weekend and acquired a nice Shimazakil tin plate Type 34 (missing its plastic siren) - its a long time since I bothered to buy any models but thought I would treat myself as this version with the Dutch Rijkspolitie emblems is quite rare.

Photos of the type 34s at the event to follow shortly.

Latest body update

Called into the body shop to check on progress. Some prep work has started on the panels with filler being applied to address areas of minor distortion following the metal work. More work is expected to happen over the next week or so as there is a gap in the body shop's work schedule that my car can slot into.

In the mean time a new door striker plate arrived from the Phillipinnes whilst i was on holiday.

Still here but no progress

Been away with work in New York for 2 weeks so I have not been able to make any progress personally. I don't think there has been any progress with the body shop either and will not get chance to check before we go away next weekend on holidays to Devon and then to the 50th celebration of the type 1 KG convertible in Germany - any news and I will post it.

In the meantime I have a new door striker plate on the way from the Phillipines for the 62 and a new drivers door lock for the 65.

We also have a new non restoration project which is keeping us busy! He even has his own blog site.

Small mechanical tweaks

I received a pair of NOS upper bump stops (snubbers) from ISP West this week. The existing ones are badly cracked and will be replaced with the new ones when I do the final set up of the front end.

I have also replaced the rear brake drum balance bars with the ones I picked up at Bad Camberg, the previous ones were both left hand ones and the car now has a left and right hand one which should be better for it and for stopping!

Type 34 sill sets

BerT3 is currently selling sill sets for the T34. Anyone who has attempted to restore one of these cars will know that this is one of the biggest challenges in the restoration. I had to have new inner and middle sills made by hand and my existing heater channels repaired. I used outer sills from another supplier and had major problems with the fit of one of them,

BerT3 is selling the whole package of outer sills, heater channel, inner sill and front and rear wing repair panels for both sides at a price of euro 1,000 plus euro 150 P&P (check the later depending where you are). The outer sill profile (not length) is made of one piece and this avoids the problem I experienced with the panel I used.

Would recommend anyone who has serious sill problems to look into this package - just needs the heater outletfor the inner sills to be let in. Mail BerT3 here for more details. bert.van.der.jeught@pandora.be

Bad Camberg 7 - General

Here are some photos that show the general beetles and show ground.

Bad Camberg 6 - Type 1 Karmann Ghias

The selection of Type 1 Karmann Ghias was a bit varied and patchy in the years represented, here are the best ones. (see part 1 for type 3 Karmann Ghias)

bad camberg 5 - Cabriolet

There was an excellent selection of cabriolets, my favourities were the UK one of Roger Beasley and the bamboo with green hood one (same colour scheme as John Figg's low light sun roof T14).

Bad Camberg 4 - Coach built

Here are a few coach built ones from Hebmueller, Rometsch, Dannerhauer & Strauss, Enzmann.