David was looking quiet some time now for a high roof to do some catering at BBT boots on the VW shows… when we came across this one he simply cracked… a real one-off, original Coca Cola sales flap from 1964!!! Yes the Coca Cola lettering is original and this bus always was used for promotional events by Coca Cola in Vienna!

This is how it looks from the inside…. crazy huh? This is so rare, I only know a handfull all over the world…

Flap open, and hand out drinks @ BBT boots, that’s David idea…. we don’t mind David, and at least now we don’t have to convert your single cab anymore…

Proud new owner with proud new bus!

ah keep up with our sunday tradition, here is life from Italy some beautiful old stuff…

I wouldn’t mind to own this building to house my cars…:)

just so perfect for what i should want to do with it…:)

Actually I could glue the whole Italy in this post, as all is patina, all is old and all is nice (or about)….

look, just a simple corner shot… how nice the colors play in the light…

and just a different angle and everything turns differently… crazy…

What hardly nobody seems to know is Italy has a lot mountains in the North, Alp mountains, but also ubercool  Dolomiti mountain ranges…  this nice old abounded hotel I took at the start of these “I Dolimiti” mountain road…

or like this abounded hotel in Cortina d’Amprezzo…

A couple of more days to go, tomorrow our travel reports will continue! Stay tuned….

Bringing Darrell to the meeting of Dei Käfer Service was the end destination… so on the road again…

Leaving the Alps, driving into Italy, we skipped freeways to not get stucked around Milano… there is other ways…:)

  We took a mandatory sleep stop… in a small town in a local hotel, in the morning we found our buses back in the parking lot, they had a good night sleep too!

The owner of the hotel was a very nice gentleman. Hotel was very basic but oh, so Italian, things we do love so much… the typical Italian family life style, centuries of tradition… hopefully will never change…

As we’ve been delayed by over 10 hours of driving time we had to take freeways to reach the Staggia Senese Maggiolino show of GAM (Gruppo Amicie del Maggiolino) the brainchild of Giovanni Dei.

We met with several members of the group (and Francesca) in Mensano, in the restaurant of Alba (Giovanni’s wife) the food for pranzo (lunch) was extremely good as always… Alba knows how to cook, the real Tuscan way!

For you food aficionados, the pasta was home-made, with tartufo (truffle) yammie!!! Only for this I would easily drive the 1600KM down here!

Somebody once said about Tuscany food, we can make it simple as long as it taste good, that’s exactly what it is… Darrell enjoyed full force! Watch him looking the desert… oh yes… he finished first (with glance) from the whole table!

Mandatory pic in Mensano, a fortified town from the 11th century or so… crazy place up on a hill…

Driving down from the “Mensano hill” we could enjoy the beautiful views over Tuscany landscape… the city in the far on this picture on that little “bud” is San Gimignano, or the Citta del Torre… who had the most money builded the highest tower…:) one of the towers belongs to Sophia Loren now, or at least that’s how the story goes…

Arriving at the show it was extremely hot, over 40°Celsius (yes that’s over a 100°F) , but the meeting between Giovanni Dei and Darrell Vittone was so nice, two people who did a lot for the VW Industry, one in USA, other one for Italy! Respect!

Tomorrow we show all about the show, the food, the party….:)  so stay tuned!