2008 LAST RIDE WITH FRIENDS.

Yesterday we had this year last ride with friends. Sandro invited us to join himand some aircooled families from the north of the island to have a nice time, talk about our projects and share a meal

So, after leaving the meeting point at the PCan station, we drove north to Garaxico

Sandro´s red street fighter on the move...

The north route seen from Eduardo´s cabrio....

Kiko´s shinning machine on the road "the purple bug"...

...when we arrived at Garaxico we met a friend´s nice Mustang Gt

Jesus had his "Proud man and his machine" photo (he wishes to have one...)


It was a nice day, a nice ride with good friends. In fact we had so great time that I forgot to take more pictures...sorry!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND 4000 CLICKS!!!

And Christmas came and we reached 4000 visits! Thank you all! Our best wishes for a Merry Christ mas and a Happy New Year full of new projects and illusion...

RUNNING UP THAT HILL....

Last Sunday members from the different VW families from Tenerife gathered to go on pic-nic to one of the highest sites in the island. It was a sight at the parking where we meet to start: T2, T1, Dokas, Kombis, bugs, Kubels...


And after one our we set off to adventure!!

Here you have this wonderful Kombi T1 in our pinewood forest..

But before reaching that high point, we had to go up the hill through a long and winding road (as the Beatles said...)


The dokas fce to face.... (Doka Club vs VWAir13)

The BEAM SCRAPERS testing their off-road habilities...

And one of the best pictures of the day, our scrapers friends following Guanchita across the desert that led into the hills and forest....


Thaks to Jesus for his photos & chronicle.

GERTRUD´S READY FOR THE PARTY...

Yesterday Gertrud had her oil and fuel filter changed in order to be ready for Sunday meeting. We are amazed to see in what good shape she is as with the exception of the just painted cargo floor the rest is in original condition!!!

Meanwhile poor Gloria awaits in a lonely parking to be checked. Damn crisis! Let´s hope new year will bring some more cash to see what happened in there...

Sorry, the pics quality is very poor but were taken with my mobile phone...

NEW MEETING AND MAGAZINE REPORT

Here we are, VW Magazine nº29 is now on newsagents all over the country and there we are on it, the Doka Club and all our friends at Garachico´08 Meeting last September. We were surprised to see our Dokas from "above". Thanks Sandro for everything!!

Our Dokas front & above:


Ah! We have a new Meeting & pick-nic. Meeting point is El Halcón coffee-shop parking as usual, at 10 sharp on the 23rd of November. Let´s go for a ride and have fun...

NEW FRIENDS

NEW FRIENDS IN ASTURIAS AND WITH A BUG FROM TENERIFE!!!

HI PALS, NICE TO HAVE NEWS FROM YOU!!!

OVERDUSE BUG 

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AT LAST 3000 CLICKS!!!!!!

THANKS, GRACIAS, MERCI, DANKE, O BRIGADO

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

GUANCHITA´S STORY (WITH ELIOREYES´PERMISSION....)

Guanchita´s story starts when Elio Reyes (a good friend & great VWs fanatic) was looking for a Doka. When he started it was only one, but soon he realized he had bought 3 dokas and a bus, too much. So he sold Guanchita to Jesus El_Gofio who got her. This was the Doka as a daily-driver vehicle:

Soon afterwards, Elio started dismantling everything to get to the bare body...

The engine was brought down for a serious re-building:

And later, she was taken to a lonely junkyard to be sandblasted...

The task was done by a kind of Darth Vader´s newphew (in Elio´s own words):

And after sandblasting her to the bone and do some minor welding repairings, she was primmed to be painted and re-assembled again (at this point Elio got a nice perfectly preserved doka and abandoned the project which gave Jesus the opportunity to buy her) :

Jesus (our Gofio Man) took things easy and a long process of body painting and engine re-building and painting started: (Here are the engine tin parts hanging from a rope ready to be painted)

The final results ( a bit scary for some of us but "cool" for him):

The cargo doors were carefully repaired ("with love"), primmed & painted too:

The back cargo door gave some problems rejecting one and again the paint, which made him repeat the process at least three times:

Then the colours were fixed to the body: first light silver in & out and later that strange "caramel surprise"...

Windows, lights and uphostery were patiently put back into her...(here we can see Kiko helping Jesus)....

Engine lid and tail lights in their place...


You can see this man is in love....he, he ...

And Guanchita as she is now, a joyful, gorgeus Doka looking forward to go for a ride!!!

You can compare...

LATEST SIGHTINGS

Here you can see the most recent sightings. Among them this nice T1 kombi daily driver in a wonderful & perfect condition...

This nice doka went up to the mainland, maybe we´ll see her appear in any of the many meetings there are in Peninsula.

Well, I know it´s not a VW, but Zeben (Fotingo800) loves this kind of tiny 3-cylinder japanese cars. It´s a Honda Z 600, here so called "TV Honda"...

This T2a kombi was recentry sold by 2000 Eus (looks nice but needs lots of work). A lucky guy has got a rare specimen.

The wonderful T2b we saw at Garachico when being re-built...

This is a T2a Doka, used by hunters to carry their dogs (many dokas survived that way....)

This one is a bit small, I saw it just a minute but something called my attention: that small orange turning light on top side after driver´s door. Is imported, maybe from a northern country like Sweden or so...




Sorry about the pictures quality, but they were taken with a mobile phone, not with my camera.