BARNFIND

Found in the least expected place, a few yards from home!!! Rusty 2nd generation Notchback, a dent in the right front and without engine.... What a pity!

Luckily the guy who discovered it before us is going to restore it...!!!

TÜV ARRANGEMENTS

Yesterday we took Gloria to the Garage to prepare her for the ITV (Spanish Vehicles Technical Inspection). We had to change her steering box, from the comfortable but unfittable mexican one to her original box re-built at a local steel workshop.


This is the mexican box that it´s now going to replace Gertrud´s to make her safer and more comfortable....


Here we can see the master of VWs, don Jose, doing his best preparing the housing for the steering box...


Next Saturday inspection, will we pass it or not???

DOKA GLORIA: RESURRECTION DAY!!!

At last resurrection day came for Gloria, which was patiently waiting for us to reinstall her re-built engine...


Here the renewed 1600 cc with new carburator, admision pipes, fuel pump, oil pump and re-built block...

The Doka Club members in action showing how can an engine be instaled with just a few tools and some good friends...

The proud dream-team after almost two hours of good job & drinks!!

Thanks pals for all your support & efforts!!!!!

10.000 VISITAS / CLICKS. GRACIAS, THANKS, DANKE, MERÇI

Keep coming!!!

NEW DOKAS IN TOWN...

Two T2a dokas have been recently restored to their former condition. The first one is in the north of the island...


It still has the special open windows on both sides of the passengers seat...


And the cargo floor has been repaired in a very imaginative way, not similar to the original but easier and cheaper to build up...

The second one, same colur, belongs to our friend Ericson and is for sale (4500 Eus)

It´s a bit younger than the previous one (early 1971) and with the same characteristics...

The engine has been rebuilt and fit to a ride condition. note the two green balls covering the heating pipes...



Nice to see they come to life again!!!!

PUMA 6 PUMA GT DUNE BUGGY

I remember those buggies all over the island as they belonged to 2 car rental companies. They were the Puma Buggy, made in the island due to a commercial agreement with the italian Co. that originally made them form Vw chassis...

They were so common and important in the island that even the factory catalogue pictured a photo taken in the south of tenerife (in el Medano) in the cover. We couls see eleven people onto the Puma with the Hotel el Medano at the back...

This model was later sold to the Spanish Mainland (Peninsula) as a 2nd hand car known as Buggy Gofio (popular cereals made from corn flour in the islands...)


A second version was the Puma GT, sharper nose also 4 seaters and could even be equipped with soft top, hard top or gullwings doors...


Only a few remain from a lot that outnumbered 200, but little by little they are rebirthing again from dull garages and bushy ravines...
This photo is an exaple of the gullwing-doors model.

THERE COULD BE ONLY ONE....

There is a rumour that one of these rare jewels is being patiently restored in our island

Discovered, bought & brought here by a vw and army stuff enthusiast who is patiently restoring this VW166 Schwimmwagen to run and sail again on our roads and coasts!!!

We are looking for clues. Maybe soon some real pics about its restoration...