*Exclusive audition footage*

Earlier this year Oval 57 and Knechten auditioned for the "Pelle Politibil" movie with their belowed cars. Having experience from original-polizei work, they thought they would have shot at becoming movie stars. Before having their cars painted in black and white, they had to pass the first audition with a road test and a river test (as seen in the trailer). This footage is from the first stage of the road test. The river test was never caught on tape, because the cars never made it to the point of where the camera man was standing. Both cars are now drying out in a warm garage... In the edge of the picture you can also spot Fürsten trying out a statist role. Unfornately he did not make it eather, because the jury didn't believe the "puzzle" was a real beetle... Better luck next time for the Sechs Volt =)

The "Originalpolizei" goes animated?

No, it's not the Sechs volt "originalpolizei" this time. It's a new Norwegian animated cinema movie for children called "Pelle Politibil" coming to the cinemas in december this year, in Norway that is. At least the young generation of Sechs Volt prospects will enjoy this for years to come I'm sure. Knechten and Oval 57 auditioned for the Pelle Politibil movie earlier this autumn, but they chose to make it animated although we put in some effort to make it work with real cars. Unfornately our cars didn't do the river scene very well =) We will be back with some audition footage...

Sechs volt babe....

World Wide Mug

The Sechs Volt mugs are spreading around the world. This summer we met a couple of nice gentlemen in Hessisch Oldendorf (the other one is behind the camera). And of course we had to give these German guys a real coffe mug. Luckily they found the blog adress on the mug and contacted us. Turns out they have a blog of their own, and they seem to be very good at blogging cool stuff as well. Check it out here:

http://el-esqueleto.blogspot.com/

Chanses are we will see this guys again next time we visit a VW meeting in Germany. Nice to meet you!

blog.algroy.no strikes again

Once again Frode has posted some real nice pictures from the past. This time some very cool restoration pictures of his former barndoor panel van. He also managed to take som periodic correct pictures of the finished van in cool surroundings before parting with it. We have taken the liberty to post a favorite picture with a clear message; You don't mess with the VW originalpolizei driving an english wannabe sportscar... Here is a link to the blog translated to english, with modern google language technology, a lot of cool stuff to be found here:

http://translate.google.no/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.algroy.no&sl=no&tl=en&hl=no&ie=UTF-8

Norwegain readers will find the link on the right hand side menu.

Sechs volt expanding

The Sechs Volt Garage has for a long time been a free space for some middle aged gentlemen. Here they gather once in while to rest from their stressful everyday life and fiddle around with old VW's. The male-spa has now got a new facility for the coming season. A new "silence room"has arrived, often found in modern office facilities, a small room where you can kick back and relax in total silence. In the picture you see the view from the lounge sofa. We hope this will give some extra energy to upcoming projects this winter. Just take a deep breath and start dreaming... More info to be found on Knechtens own blog, the man behind the idea of the silence cabinet =)

Sechs volt-mugs

Some lucky guys have got their exlusive Sechs volt-mug. If you are one of them we will be glad for a picture with the mug and some Sechs volt-activity:) Please send over your photo to: haakonasolberg@hotmail.com and we will post it on our blog.

Psssssst! Bluehats is alive:)

How FAR would YOU go?

After seeing a mindblowing split convertible last night (not related to this posting at all), it brought back a memory from the past. At some point when Fürsten was tracking down the 51 cab now resting in the sechs volt garage, we asked a hypothetical question among the sechs volt members; How FAR would you go, to get one? Based on a theory that VW is a quite male-dominated hobby, that the male statisticly pulls in the paddles before the females, AND if you were lucky enough to track a split cab down. There would be a fair chance of it being testamented to a spouse (statisticly again). And as we know from experience, NOTHING is for sale. So the real question is; How far beyond "second base" would you go to get the current owners signature on the pinkslip?

(We have a theory that the answer to this question is how the Screwdrivers got their #numbers, just hypothetical)

Diamonds are forever

The Sechs Volt had picked up some rumors that a true "phenomenon" in the norwegian VW scene was about to surface again, after years of storage. The car was covered by an article in a norwegian car magazine, before it disappeared from the VW scene due to tragic circumstances. Now many years later, the car has found a new owner, who will without doubt, treat it with the respect it deserves. We were lucky to get ourselves an invitation to the new garage to check out this car in the flesh. Toghether with Gustav "Pealit" Petri we spent a whole evening in Kims garage studying this beauty. WHAT A CAR!! This one is restored in every detail, and taken into considiration restoration was started over 20 years ago, it's really impressive. Today we have everything at hand through the internet, in the nineties you had to GO to Germany or other places to source parts. Repro parts available today, had to be made one-off on this car. We hope to see a lot more of this car at next summers gatherings, looking better than ever.... Someone also mentioned Bad Camberg 2011, we really look foreward to that!! Thanks Kim, we are still drooling (and thats not the coffes fault)...

(Article from Autofil Magazine, Kick ass pictures with snowchains)

The story continues...

For those who have not seen this thread on TheSamba.com yet, here is the link one more time:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=378245&start=0
This must be the absolute coolest barnfind in a long time. I really like the look of the car after it was modified from a full on race car to a road legal sports car. I fully understand the choice of building it back to race specs now, but there would be interesting to make a replica of the street version as well. A real beauty! Will be back at Prototyp to see this in the flesh at some point...

*Knechten*

Back to nature

Before the snow starts covering all old metal here in the Norwegian forrests, we grabbed the opportunity to go treasure hunting. This time we found the remains of two beetles. Probably a 51 and a 54 beetle. At the same place we also found some english crap and a german Ford with a Golde sunroof.

Just truly amazing

This Rometch-Porsche race car was found in storage earlier this year. Can you imagine the heart rate seeing this dusty piece of vintage race histoy in the dark storage room? Car has now ended up at http://www.prototyp-hamburg.de/ for restoration. See some moe info here, posted by Splitpersonality: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=378245

My gilfriends VW-bag

This is what she got from me in end of the summer. This bag is made of VW-fabric all over as you can see. On the inside is it headliner from VW also. My mother-in-law did make it, I did only buy the fabric:) She use it, and like it pretty much! She has also got some VW-ear-rings and the VW-bus jewellery by Thomas Sabo.
*Oval57*

Vintage photo

Open up this photo in full resolution... It's a barndoor pick up isn't it? And a split, rag tops and lot of atmosphere. I guess the pick up is not doing 80 km/h up that hill ;-)

Painting a split

What happens? Is`nt every split in the Sechs volt garage painted already? Is it a new project? It seems to be a nice color:) The owner must tell for him self.

The 52 Capitan

Just a photoshoot of the 52 Capitan before the winter.

Screwdrivers blog

The Sechs Volts biggest rivals on the norwegian VW scene, the "Screwdrivers", has entered the world wide web. On several occations during the summer season, we bump into these hardcore enthusiasts. They tend to show up at every VW gathering there is, and so does the Sechs Volt. Not seldom does it all turn into a fierce battle when these rivals meet. It never involves any fist fights, but it all goes down verbally. We usually cope with their southern division, but when things start to get ugly, they always bring in the northern division from Troendelag. We always turn out a size to small, as farmer talk from the prairie can't measure up against the sodd talk from the north... Now it's time to see if they blog as good as they small-talk.

They have some really impressive projects going on for sure, check out Runes barndoor project and lots of other great stuff =)

http://www.screwdriversnorway.blogspot.com/

Crazy-award at SCC 2009

Our true Sechs volt-friend Morten Lund got the Crazy-award because he did fish a 1957-model Samba from the bottom of a Norwegian lake. Who else could get that award:)

Here you can follow the progress on Mortens samba:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=372048

Sechs Volt holidays

The Sechs Volt went on holiday this year as well. This time Knechten has visited the shores of Rhodos with the family. Not easy to switch off the VW button just hours after riding in a schwimmwagen at SCC. The patina of the car in the picture caught my eye at first, but a trained filter saw something underneath the car. Powered by a singleport VW engine this was suddenly more interresting. Turnes out to be a greek produced three wheel truck from the late sixties. Looked like the engine was the only thing holding it togheter. Slammin' it on earlies? Well, then you need to have your legs amputated to fit the front wheel inside the cabin. Not by any means as cool as a matador though. But a cool parts hauler for sure... (WTF was the idea behind the three wheel design?)

Der propellenführer

Oildropman made a little video of one of the 4 Schwimmwagens at SCC 2009. Vintage village did manage 4 ambifiecars this year:) Oval57 sind der propellenführer.