Last saturday was rise shine and early, 1,5 hr drive to Red Barn, a real bus thing going on… kind a slow this year, still many bus buddies, and cool stuff out there….
Thought this was a cool vert on the parking lot… real Cali style…
All about swap, and meeting friends…
In the afternoon I was invited with a couple of friends to check out Rick Clark’s collection… extreme high-end VW collector and Monterey (Pebble Beach) local, Rick is involved in events as McCall event and Pebble Beach Concours, but also associated with the Petersen museum, what you don’t know from this names is more than worth to Google!
Two stories, make this an extreme cool collectors place… and all in style! Rick is also heavily involved in surfing and wild species out of Africa… a,nd he has a job… I don’t know how one man can do that all! An extreme nice and friendly gentleman!
Barndoor panel…
andBarndoor microbus deluxe, one of the best I ever saw!
Wowh, this blew me of my socks!
Saturday I will give You a full report about Kelley park!
The whole weekend kicked off with Mark Merrill’s open house. Personal friend and very serious VW collector Mark is incredible good to the local VW crowd and other visitors as well!
Friday morning, Ray and Christopher sweep the floors, everything has to be spot on!! Mark is ordering Pizza in the back! (believe me or not!)
On return the afternoon, this cool Ghia is parked before the door…
And a little later this cool 56 vert do arrive as well… many cars, to many to put here!
Mark and his team did an incredible job! Here is the Westfalia display, T1, 2 and 3!
And the special display in the corner, with the recently acquired Aussi car…
Here the utility display, an ambulance (ex BBT) and a fire truck bay window… both pristine condition!
The 1958 fire truck, also ex BBT ! take also a look to the weird trailer that they hooked up!
A buddy came down from seattle with this 356 powdered Mango bus, way to cool!
Yours truly in that Mango, man I do love that bus!
ah, my new acquisition!! A 1967 Kombi, mainly first paint, dry, solid and fully operational! And yes it’s for sale!
Inside the party is in full operation, free food, free drinks, even free cocktails! wowh Mark this is very very high class!!!
Rometsch on display!
Row of the regular beetles…
Mark has a separate literature room, and also this very special dedicated toy room!
Taco’s are ready…. guess they will be good if You can tell from the line up!
Race car corner…/
Cool crew cab on the street!
wowh Ghia cab down the street…
ok, not too drunk and early to bed, tomorrow is Red Barn bus swap meet, 1,5 hr drive…. and swap meets do start early here! Stay tuned….
Bad Camberg, mother of all Vintage Volkswagens meetings, organized once every 4 years. The last edition was in 2011 and 2015 promises to be again a wonderful year for all VW lovers.
So EVERYBODY is highly invited to celebrate with us!
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Type 1 model
Type 2 model t1
Bus Brasil
Bus T2a
Bus T2b
Type 2 model t25
Type watercooled
Bus T4
Type 1 model Ghia
Karmann Ghia 34
Type 3 model
Type 4 model
Type 181
Porsche
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AA performance
AMC
Ate
Auto Craft
BBT Original
Produced by BBT
Bugpack
Buttys bits
CB performance
Engle
Febi
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IGP
Kolbenschmidt
Mahle
OCAP
OMC
Provided by BBT
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Sale
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Silver Weld Through
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