Aircooled VW South Africa

Would love to see more pics of that Passat Armand, it looks super clean and original

A little progress

A good friend made a watercolour about 12 years ago and finally I got the space

Thanks Pine



I still need a head for Alphons as he is called
Armand

Hoe lyk hy nou?

Hi been busy with stuff but a little has happened in the garage
Had a display built for my toys

each one of these has a story




Found a radio gram as well and it still works I would like a new needle for the record player though



My dad had this one in his beetle quite often dated 1968

some oil cans

Cat looking after the Cat

Some more signs

From my hostel days dating from the 50's

more modern

Enamel rules

The michelin man can

Thanks for asking
Armand

Impi, post some close ups of that needle (Stylus is the correct name ) or supply a part number if it has one and I will ask around here in CPT.

Now that is any mans DREAM.

Just..... so much of coolness right there !!!!

IMPI wrote:.....
My dad had this one in his beetle quite often dated 1968

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Armand

Small world...

My dad designed that radio, when he was at Phillips, and the pro to type was in our house for months, this was the only radio that we kids could do with it what we wanted, we where the quality check for it.
When it stopped working, my dad would, work out what went wrong, improve on it and give it back to us.
We had a ball,and South Africa, and the rest of Africa got a dam good radio.
Thanks for the memory's
...........

Herman

Thanks for that Herman You should send me a photo of your dad and a small description I would love to display it together. BTW the radio still works.
Regards
Armand

retrovan wrote:

IMPI wrote:.....
My dad had this one in his beetle quite often dated 1968

.....
Armand

Small world...

My dad designed that radio, when he was at Phillips, and the pro to type was in our house for months, this was the only radio that we kids could do with it what we wanted, we where the quality check for it.
When it stopped working, my dad would, work out what went wrong, improve on it and give it back to us.
We had a ball,and South Africa, and the rest of Africa got a dam good radio.
Thanks for the memory's
...........

Herman

Héé Herman, d'r staat maar één "l" in Philips, joh...


My dad had a very similar looking Blaupunkt which lived in the passenger footwell of his 67 Beetle in 68. My mom had to tune it constantly, as it hissed and pluttered it's way through the Drakensberg, the Blaupunkt, not the Beetle.

Ron&Gill wrote:...

Héé Herman, d'r staat maar één "l" in Philips, joh...

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You always loose or gain in translation.

Or maybe just inflation....

Herman

Hemel, ek ken jou van g'n kant af nie, maar as ek so na die foto's kyk dink ek ek haat jou reeds!

A small update its coming together now
















thanks for looking
Armand

This is amazing Armand. I'm getting quite inspired by all this. One day!!!!

Wow.. "thumbs up" Armand..