Gustav_t´s danish garage

[Gustav_t]

I almost forgot garagejournal and keeping you guys updated. My friend Michael finished all the final nailing with a rotary-air-nailgun. This little car I found siting in a field, found the missing parts, put the engine and brakes back on, lowered it, added some wheels and sold it again.

G.

 

[930dreamer]

Great garage, love the panel, ghia and squareback. We've had a VW in the family since 1967. 930

 

[sgrammel]

Where are you at in DK? I am heading to Aarhus and Randers next week

 

[trodery]

You have a beautiful home and an awesome garage but that VW Panelvan is AWESOME!

 

[jktruck150]

Nice cars, nice garage! I like your style. Oildrippers is one really great car club name too!! Keep up the posts!

 

[Gustav_t]

I´m actually in Ebeltoft about 50 km.´s from both Aarhus and Randers.
You´ll arrive here in snowy weather.

Are you into v-dubs too?

G.

 

[Grizz1963]

Hi Gustav,

Just read this whole thread.

Great build, love all your cars.

I still regret not buying a Razor Ghia years ago when offered one for stupid money back in South Africa.

I very nearly had one of those Hearse trailers too.

I have just started building a Teardrop trailer, The hearse trailer would have been an alternative to it, but I wanted the kitchen bit too.
.
It is to tow behind my Ford Taunus Transit FK1250, which I imported from Germany in 2007.

Hopefully in August we will have a new house, with a garage that will take 6 VW Golfs.

Trailer Build thread here:
http://www.retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=othrmod&action=display&thread=67389

LINK: http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=37192

I also have a 1956 Ford Anglia 100E , which I bought for Nicola, my best half, who I will marry in August 2010 as she is a petrol head too (Lucky me)

LINK:http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=60718

Here they are both in front of Nicola's place on the way to the www.medwaymonkeys.co.uk get together. Medway Monkeys is an ofshoot of Oldskool Ford and local, with great and helpfull people.

 

[ct71rr]

Very nice build!!

Thanks
The same here.. we pay something like 75% tax of our earnings!
Cars are taxed with 180%!

G.

Don't worry, we're on our way to taxes like that here...

 

[Gustav_t]

That is one cool Transit - aren´t those rader/randar wheels made for Volkswagens? Does the transit run 2x205 pcd?

Thanks for your kind words. These days i´m welding a friends ovalwindow bug in the old 30 sqm. garage as its insulated and sports a fireplace.. cozy.

G.

 

[McRae]

The Transit is using adapters to convert it to VW pcd, read it in his thread on RR. Cool ride!

 

[Grizz1963]

That is one cool Transit - aren´t those rader/randar wheels made for Volkswagens? Does the transit run 2x205 pcd?

Thanks for your kind words. These days i´m welding a friends ovalwindow bug in the old 30 sqm. garage as its insulated and sports a fireplace.. cozy.

G.

Hallo Gustav,Thanks , as mentioned below, the Transit does run Radars on specially made up Adaptors @ £330 incl the new wheel bolts, probably one of the most expensive luxuries on the bus at the price, but I needed them.
I have found a guy who made me a pair for £40 plus postage for the Teardrop trailer here in the UK as it is also getting Radars, so they can be made for less, I paid too much for the first ones.

The Transit runs 5x160 if I remember.

It is currently getting a Ford Zetec transplant by a good friend.

 

[Gustav_t]

My friend built a teardrop trailer a couple of years back. I helped him a bit with the design and holding steel while he was welding and so on. He did a really good job. I´ll find some pics for you. He´s a really clever fabricator. He builds trucks (lorries?) for a living.

G.

 

[Gustav_t]

I finally got started on the drywall. A local shop had the stuff on sale and I decided to do the bit behind the work area to be able to get the chequered tiles up. It just snowbaled from there...

 

[Gustav_t]

I got the outdoor lights hooked in. It looks really cosy in there doesn´t it?
I also got one of my x-mas gifts installed - a brooks saddle for my 1953 Western Flyer.

Feel free to comment - I really like feedback - good or bad.

 

[sam 8]

Gustav;

Great build, I really enjoy seeing how it is done in other places.
Your aircooleds are sweet, I have a '71 Ghia and a '65 Bug in my mix.
The bike is way cool!

 

[Curt_pnw]

Wow. I like what I see. All your vw's are awesome. I think I have seen pictures of your ghia on the samba, I love the color combo, though I am a bit biased. The panel looks real clean. Nice fasty and split window too. A while back I test fitted those wheels you had on that squareback, but didn't like them compared with the stock chomes with moons.

I really like the design of the exterior of your house and garage. They work well together. Sorry if I missed it but how high are the ceilings in the garage?

 

[Grizz1963]

Great progress once again Gustav, you have some real nice toys too.

 

[Gustav_t]

Thanks for all the kind words - When I initially joined the Garage Journal the amount of v-dubbers here were close to none. Don´t get me wrong I like US steel to. But I would love to see some "high-dollar" v-dub workshops.

"Head Room":
In the low side of the building 2,64
in the high 3.00 meters to the ceiling.

G.

 

[Gustav_t]

Wow - that square is sweet - since I did the 70´square my girlfriend wants a pre 69 square with red interior.

G.

 

[Curt_pnw]

Wow - that square is sweet - since I did the 70´square my girlfriend wants a pre 69 square with red interior.

G.

Thanks!
To me, it is all about the early type 3's. I have seen some of the late models done right, but i prefer the early ones much more.
Oof! Red interiors are sweet. If you don't already have plans for it, what about doing up the fastback with a red interior?

 

[Gustav_t]

Its got a perfect teak interior and have very few miles on it. I think it would be blasphemy? To me the early models are also the coolest.

G.

 

[Curt_pnw]

Its got a perfect teak interior and have very few miles on it. I think it would be blasphemy? To me the early models are also the coolest.

G.

Ok scratch that idea. That definitely needs to be kept original.


Any progress on the garage?

 

[too old for this]

Gustav...signed up just to say nice build,we are into similar stuff,here's my old smoker

and here is the motivation

When I finish my housebuild I will be renovating my 20x30,already have the base in for a clean room to keep the oval 20x15...so I can build a Ghia,here is my old one back in '89(I am an old geezer)this is a scan of the 65 at bug jam

(you may have heard of our club.....JG54 greenhearts,we are hoping to come to Spa this year? keep up the good work Alex

 

[Gustav_t]

Yes I follow a blog where youre club is regularly mentioned.

The frost is gone and I finally got the tiles up over the worktable. I decided to use no grout as it will always be bone dry and I avoided cutting a single tile. It fitted perfectly beneath the cable housing.

G.

 

[jwhcars]

You have done a superb job on your garage and I enjoy seeing the updates and pics of both the garage and toys.

 

[Gustav_t]

Thank you so much. Reading your comments urge me to carry on..

G.

 

[Grizz1963]

There you go Gustav, just for you....

Volksworld 2010 show photos.

http://www.retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=77943

 

[Gustav_t]

Thanks Grizz
My friends went this year. I´ll be going next year for sure.

 

[kevin20v]

OMG all those nice VW's

 

[Gustav_t]

Thanks a lot..

G.

 

[glsmaverick]

Congrats on the garage build. I have a couple good friends that live in Sonderborg; didnt see a lot of garages around there.

 

[swharris]

Nice build and fleet. I have a '62 DC, '65 Westfalia (pop-top) waiting resto, '67 Westfalia (hard-top) interior donor, and '66 fastback. Only the fasty is operational. The DC was in a horrible head on while my wife was driving. The event has permanantly tainted the hobby for me, but I still can not get rid of them. I have a love/hate relationship with them. We had many great time in them though. We went to Bad Camberg '03 and had a blast, even getting up to Amsterdam for the one day meeting at a awesome shop there...forget the name.

Wear your 3 pt. seat belts please! I have some pics that I'll post when I get home. Again great looking shop...but how could you not build with a lift in mind??

Always on the look out for one of these

 

[AndrewBigA]

please keep the pics comming. the garage is comming out really nice.
i read this thread rom start to finish. please update us when you can. =)

 

[Gustav_t]

@glsmaverick:
Building materials and labour are extremely expensive in Denmark.
You also has to pay taxes according to the value of your property.
People can´t afford huge garages unless they really, really want to.

@SWharris:
Sounds cool with the type 2 collection + fastback

Please dont post of the wrecked one.
I have had a couple of crashes in my life and they haunt me all the time.

G.

 

[Wingnut65]

Gustav, You have a beautiful garage and a great collection of air cooled rides. Your panel is sweet. I have inherited my family's '65 Split that is now in my garage to restore. Before I can fully get into the tear down, I want to finish my garage floor to keep from staining the concrete. Thus, I found GJ and now, thanks to garages like yours, I will have to redo my garage before I can do my bus justice. You know how one thing leads to another, to another and to another... But thanks to GJ, the ball is rolling and someday the bus will be too...

I am interested in your cabinets with the pull-out trays. Do you have any more pix of how you use them? That looks like a creative idea to solve storage problems.

Glad I found your thread. Keep up the great work.

jeff

 

[swharris]

@SWharris:
Sounds cool with the type 2 collection + fastback

Please dont post of the wrecked one.
I have had a couple of crashes in my life and they haunt me all the time.
G.

None of the wrecked one. Actually it survived fairly well for a glancing head on. I'll put some up of it in it's better days if I can bring myself to look at it again.

 

[Gustav_t]

Not a lot of progress in the garage this summer. I did however get this little used cabinet done. Its about the same age as the cars. Now I finally have a dry but dustfree place to keep the really nice bits. I used some old paint and had some hardened glass made up for shelves. Lights were sourced from our old kitchen.

 

[Dennis Cavallino]

It's a very nice garage/workshop Gustav. I've never been to Denmark, but I still have to drive my Saab to Sweden one day. I Like your VW's. I never saw such a Nice Karmann Ghia before. It's rare and I like it a lot. You've polished your Fuchs wheels? I liked the old black look on those Fuchs. Your Ghia looks a bit like a Corvair. Sorry , but I like the Corvair's looks with twin headlights and I don't like the normal Karmann Ghia (round/girly) nose. This is a guy's car

Keep up the good work.

 

[Fixxer]

Det ser flot ud!
Var i danmark kommer du fra?

 

[abstamaria]

Gustav, thank you for posting. What an interesting thread!

I have been to Denmark twice, once to Haderslev to look at a boat. I love your pickled herring open sandwiches with plenty of Danish butter!

Andres