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!!!

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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...