Not sure why you would want to try this but it look like it would fucking hurt!
Here is a little video, borrowed from beetlejuice150, that i though you might enjoy.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Boys of summer.
Happy summer from The Old Speed Shack!!
We here at the OSS have been taking a bit of a break from ACVW and vintage speed and focused our efforts on getting our 1974 Toyota Hilux pickup on the road. As you can imagine, having a ½ ton pickup could be very useful for such things as junkyard digging, people hauling and drive in watching. It also serves as Mrs. Old Speeds favorite ride and she has been rocking the truck most days as of late.
Though we do not currently have a vintage speed build, the bastard 61 was sold over the long cold Vermont winter, but we do have lots of printed materials that need to be scanned and up loaded to our blog. We are again starting to follow the land speed races and other old speed activities from around the world. So we will keep you updated as things progress. Hibernation was nice but now that summer is here we plan on getting back into the action.
One final note, the OSS will be moving from… well the shack into a more metropolitan environment in the next month. This will facilitate more long drives for fun and less for work/food/nightlife. It is also causing us to down size our collection of part and books. Thus the OSS is having a summer SALE starting today, the first day of summer. All our Samba ads are OBO, so if you see something you like make an offer.
Here are the ads and have a grand summer!
We here at the OSS have been taking a bit of a break from ACVW and vintage speed and focused our efforts on getting our 1974 Toyota Hilux pickup on the road. As you can imagine, having a ½ ton pickup could be very useful for such things as junkyard digging, people hauling and drive in watching. It also serves as Mrs. Old Speeds favorite ride and she has been rocking the truck most days as of late.
Though we do not currently have a vintage speed build, the bastard 61 was sold over the long cold Vermont winter, but we do have lots of printed materials that need to be scanned and up loaded to our blog. We are again starting to follow the land speed races and other old speed activities from around the world. So we will keep you updated as things progress. Hibernation was nice but now that summer is here we plan on getting back into the action.
One final note, the OSS will be moving from… well the shack into a more metropolitan environment in the next month. This will facilitate more long drives for fun and less for work/food/nightlife. It is also causing us to down size our collection of part and books. Thus the OSS is having a summer SALE starting today, the first day of summer. All our Samba ads are OBO, so if you see something you like make an offer.
Here are the ads and have a grand summer!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The race to end all races.
Pulling ourselves out of our winter hibernation, highs in the 20s, for just a moment to tell you about why the Europeans have MUCH better car show.
Here is the legend of the very special car race.
On cloudy summer day while working in the dark recesses of the Oldtimers OldSpeed club a group of mad scientists come up with the perfect “race” to lead into Bad Camber and they called it the Cannon Ball run. The race was to powerful to be contained by one group, and as any good end of the world movie will tell you, it escaped to infect the rest of Europe. This caused insolent 50s Beetle, 356 and couch built owners to go mad with the desire to race across Germany to see whom could be the first to BC. So the wise Oldtimer Oldspeed club set up a start point of 100km out from the show on some of Germanys pretty back roads for an all out sprint to the finish.
It looks as if there will be multiple classes to allow for cars of different displacements to have a fair fight. . Well as fair as a Beetle Vs a 356 could ever be. So if you are going to be in Germany next summer for BC you HAVE to check out this race. Or even better get off your tush and get that old VW or Porsche in this fantastic race!
Monday, October 18, 2010
The quest for knowledge
The OSS is currently look for any and all article(net or paper) on the 356 Type 540 America roadster. If you have any interesting links or want to sell/send/scan article for us feel free to contact us at oldspeedshack@gmail.com
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Okrasa special update.
In case you have not been following the Okrasa special build use your mouse to scroll down and see the couch build work in progress.
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