GERTRUD´S RESTO part two

Today many changes have taken place. here we can see "maese Chucho" repairing some rusty section on the passenger door...


Gertrud has been conciously sandblasted with sand paper all over her body...


The only worring rust in the windscreen frame has been welded and it´s ready to be primmed & painted...


The cargo bed without the wooden sticks...


Those ugly dents on her right side welded as welll...


And here she is, ready for tomorrow...

GERTRUD´S RESTO

Yesterday, Zeben took Gertrud up to Chucho´s place, the garage where she was going to be dismantled, welded and painted....



No one of us can imagine why Zeben decided to do it as his Doka seems to be in very good shape!!


She was carefully driven till the back of the garage...


And then action begun...


It seems to be rust, but in fact are the remains of the glue they used at the factory for the plastic carpets.


Naked tail without gates or engine lid....



The only serious rusty discovery, under the front windscreen, 3 centimetres long, one wide...

And how she was left yesterday after Chucho & Zeben dismantled everything to stat sandblasting and later primming...

Tonight more!!!

DOKAS AT LAS ERAS MEETING

In the last meeting we could gather five dokas to please the public. First this T2ab with strange front turn signal lights embebded into the front bumper...


Mine side by side to the surfers one...


A pretty and almost original (re-painted some years ago but with the original colour) T1 still dayle drive to carry bananas from the plantation...


Another daily drive in use at a local tyres dealer... note it´s a low rider...


Edicson´s doka. Was totally original up to a few weeks ago when he decided to lower it just a bit...


And finally mine!!

NEW KOMBI: HEIDI

Last Sunday, Sandro introduced his new kombi in society. We call her "Heidi" as it was an Austrian police van formerly painted in "green forest". The siren horns are still in front and work perfectly!!!

What makes this walkthrough kombi interesting is her original metal sliding roof, and her 2 sliding doors!!



She has missed her central 3 passengers seat and the roof police lights... But Sandro´s children had filled her up with scooters, foldable seats, and any sort of toys you can imagine....


As it´s written on her cargo door "rust is not a crime", because it´s very rusty and a lot of welding work is to be done on her....

Here "Heidi" and "Gloria" side by side. The kombi is powered by a 2000cc aircooled engine (more than enough) and to our envy she has a European hi-way gearbox!!! (Ours are alpine ones, very powerful but too slow and noisy to drive along the motorway)

All her beauty displayed at "Las Eras Meeting" last weekend.... Good luck and good project!!!

Thanks to Van & Guille, Facund & Volschinet for some of the pics!!

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HOW MANY DOORS DID YOU SAY...?

I was shocked & amazed when I discovered these pics surfing the net....


This front door transformation was due to install the hi-way radar system. Note the power supply cable for the front light.

Once closed, it looked like a mixture between a T1 & a T2... Though the split windscreen is not exactly 50/50 but more like 60/40.

Well, this is nt exactly a safari windscreen like T1´s, and of course it wasn´t meant to be driven with that front door open (I think).

What it´s sure is that it was used by the police in both T2a and T2b buses...

MOCAN CLASSIC CARS MEETING

Last Sunday we attended a meeting with the KAT (Tenerife Aircooled Colective) in the nice suburbs of el Mocanal in Los Realejos Tenerife CI). the Doka Club sent two dokas and a Karmann Ghia (here queueing to be properrly parked & displayed)

Our DOKAS Gloria & Gertrud side by side as the only example of working cars displayed at the meeting....


El_Gofio´s Karmann & Gertrud at our meeting point in los Realejos...

OCTOBER 10th: MASPALOMAS FLOWER POWER

First day meeting will be at at Tarajalillo Circuit in San Agustín Gran Canaria. This is the local Fun Cup Circuit. I hope we´ll be granted to run into the circuit with our buses!!!




Thanks Sonia

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EL GOFIO´S NEW TOY: A SIKA!

This summer Jesus, our gofioman, has fulfilled one of his sweetest dreams: a Single cabin!!!! Here you can see how long she is and the manouvres to get her into his garage!!!


A nice fron-side pic. She´s in very good shape!! Keept into a store for the last ten years....



Just a new battery a turnkey and there she goes!!!!!

Lucky one!!!!