Still in California, I had an appointment at a serious backyard last weekend…

Thanks to my friends Ray and Tom I could buy several project buses and cut up some other VW’s.

The result you see here below! The first load ready to go to the port!

There was all kind of crazy stuff all over the yard…

When I say really crazy stuff I mean really crazy stuff!

So we part out all kind of things we thought we could use…

and went through all piles of parts…

check out what was laying around!

Sunday morning we went back but first needed a healthy breakfast…

second load was ready!

Watch out for the tarantula’s!!! (yes this was a real one!!)

With a little help from my friends is a song from the beetles I sing many times, including last weekend!! These are the guys that made it possible for me to get this, and they helped full-time to cut, load, change tyres and stuff!

Ray, Tom and Pete, You’re the guys! Thank you so much for this ubercool weekend!!

and I’m on my way for more now! …:) but first we have to drive these to the shippers!

This was fun! on my visit to Beverly and Sherry from Vintage parts we discovered the old “picture wall”… with real pictures!

Do you remember these guys? I put the names I knew under every picture!

left to right… Bob Scott, Beverly, yours truly and BBT Arlette!!

Loren Pearson, West Coast metric, and Teufelheb! Yes that’s Teufelheb, the BBT Hebmuller!!

Yours truly with Beverly earlier this week!

Do you recognise Chris Dalton (VW Emporium UK) and his wife?

Henri Matti from MPI fame behind the counter…

Yes yes DR Mac Jones from Tennessee in his Rometsch!

Erik Meyer and Joe Crocket…. wowh!

and last but not least… Bob and Shawn from vintage parts with Mr Komori and his secretary from Flat 4 fame…

where are the times, where is that hair, Henri???

We continued our trip through a lot of suppliers, unfortunately it became so hectic we weren’t able to take pictures everywhere…

This was at Rancho transaxles… BBT distribute Rancho for ages, a visit is always impressive to see how many transmissions they have!

or drive axles…

or drive axle housings..

or diff carriers! really amazing!

From there we went to DPR machining, the people who make our welded counter weighted crankshaft, the crankshaft that don’t break.. Jose, the owner, gave us the full tour!

Their experience in VW crankwelding and grinding is unique on planet earth

Jerry, Jose and yours truly!

Can You figure out this plate?

in case you couldn’t…. its kreativ one

Next stop… Hot VW’s magazine HQ!!

our “bus” buddy eddy (for life) received us so well, it was ad Editor Shin was in Indonesia for Yogya VW festival, but we enjoyed at a magical VW place!!

Oh, the dog’s name is Joda, and Joda is the most famous VW dog on the planet!

And when the editor is not there, I’m glad to take his seat.. hi Shin, its me from your captain’s chair…:)

another burger every day for Jerry… and saved the best for last… today its Islands time!!

Finally we helped our buddy Rick to empty the last remains of Bugpack… will the Herbie body fit the white whale?

You bet!!

I dropped Jerry off at another friends place and he flies back home on Sunday… me… I have another week to go with a lot of things to do… i will report as good as i can… so stay tuned!