SCC2010 DVD - featuring sechs volt

Norway's premier vw event - SCC, recently launched the 2010 dvd. We were pleased to see a well-known sechs volt car on the backside of the cover - knechten's oldspeed switter! The DVD features both lots of vintage cars and drag racers alike...we'll be there 19. - 21. august 2011 as well.... =) The DVD can be purchased at  http://www.sccevent.com/  

The 1938 modell VW number 6

Here is the video of it when found in Lithuania. You can read more at The Samba

The Grundmann-museum

Volksaddiction

Please visit these guys and check out their fully loaded website with split and ovals in vintage speed...

Merry Christmas volks!

The split cruisers

Our friends "The split cruisers" got a blog, please check them out.

Old postcards...

..has fantastic resolution, and is perfect combined with a scanner or a camera.

Loading the canon for OCC

Forces within the Sechs Volt Garage are stepping up to defend the Norwegian colors in central Europe sometime next summer. A selection of Old Speed Canons are rumored to hit the roads in a fierce battle between German engineering, home brewed ingenuety and a bit madness. The Abarth Zwitter will be ready to fight in the small displacement class, and we gladly eat Okrasa and Judson engines for breakfast... Prepare yourselves in the south; we are loading the canon with balls of steel... and sliding into our outlaw shirts =)

WE DON'T PLAY - WE BATTLE

Updates here: http://oldtimeroldspeedclub.blogspot.com/

Cosy indoors

Its that time of the year again. Candels is in the wind.

Driving in the rain

Sometimes you should wish you were at home and had your pride and joy parked inside. But yellow sechs volt bulbs and the wipers did a great job on the way home. Driving with original dim on the rubber is no problem. *Oval57*

The Sechs volt present at TV

Some of the Sechs volt boys are starring in this movie

Please don't Hurst me...

.. or do just that. Some of the Sechs volts have a soft spot for Hurst shifters, and combined with a nice girl it can't be wrong. She looks "Hurst Equipped" in the race suit =)

Young driver

Oval57`s little son Iver is already into old beetles. He was smiling when he heard the nice sound of the horn. One day he will be a passenger in this split, if his father install seatbelts.

SCC 2010

The SCC 2010 is over and the Sechs Volt crew are very pleased this year. Bigger, better and more spectacular than ever. The Vintage village had a selection of cars this year that really set the standard. We had a Karmann convertible line up counting 22 cars, we had the third oldest Karmann Ghia in the world, we had an original signwritten highroof split, we had a oldspeed lineup like never seen before in Norway, we had WW2 cars swimming and dirtriding in the forest, and we had a lot of visitors with outstanding cars. The level of cars was simply amazing... And yes, we had a well known samba bus driving around the Village after 35 years under water. And if you have not discovered what SCC is all about, be sure to check the photos and feedback on the internet, and make sure to not miss it in 2011.

SCC 2010 - THE BEST EVER!!

See you at SCC

This is where it all happens

Dyno testing the Express engine

What do you do when the kids and wife are gone for a few days during the vacation? You dyno the engine!
I see lots of guys talking about hp after dyno testing. After doing it myself I realised that the calculation of hp is not constant. When testing yesterday the guy had to put in some numbers in advance about how many horses you "loose" in the gearbox. He told me that you loose different amount of hp in different kind gearboxes, so it will not be accurate. My Express engine with 1,2mm flycut heads and dual 28 pci's with 95" main jets and 180" air jets, dynoed 27 hk on the wheels. As I was told, the actual amout of horses is between 33-36. Just perfect if you want to drive in steady 90 km/h, even uphill :-)

The Vintage village @ SCC

This years SCC will be even bigger, better and more fun than any time before. Read the Vintage village-blog and find out. On the SCC-site you will find all your information about the meeting in general.

Be there or be a lemon!

How to build a "beetlebomb"

Once upon a time...in 1960....what we consider "Old speed" was "the latest hop-up kit". 

 And few old speed hop-up kits are more sought after than the Denzel kit for the 30 hp (US 36hp) vw 1200 engine...

Imported to the US by European Motor Products Inc. and built by Revmaster Inc, both in California, the Denzel kit (heads, rocker arms, lifters, carbs and engine tin) should jump horsepower from 36 to a healthy 54...for the power-thirsty, an EMPI 69,5 mm crank would rise displacement to 1300ccm and the stroked engine to a whopping 60hp.. 

Throw in a longer duration camshaft, bigger carbs and even higher compression, and 85 horsepower was reportedly possible....!

One can only wonder what influence Denzel tuning kits would have had on the vw tuning industry if Wolfgang Denzel had not started to work for BMW shortly thereafter......?

Comparison of the Denzel head and the stock vw-head...bigger is better ;-) One can clearly see similarities with this early performance head and the racing heads availlable today..

 

(Photos from HRM, June 1960)

Sechsy summer nights

Last night as we were cleaning in our garage after a winters work, this split bus suddenly stopped outside. We jumped in and headed straight to the nearest beach. The rest is history as they say... We wish you all happy holidays, and hope see you @ SCC in August!!

Sechs volt at Mantorp park

After a heavy breakfast by Oval57`s mum we headed for BugRun 2010. All the tree cars did run like a blast on the highway. At BugRun the swapmeet never turn you down - we did all get some nice parts for the cars - or the shelf. Two of the cars in front was first time Mantorp. We are sorry for the high voltage car in the middle....