My 1970 Standard Beetle Diary

Sunday, September 23, 2007

And the Trophy for "Most Optimistic" goes to.....

Well, if the Tulsa VW Club Car Show had presented a "Most Optimistic" award, I'm sure I would've won it. As it turned out, of the four cars that were entered in the "Under Construction" classification...My Precious came in fourth.

Heh heh! That's ok.

I was at the show from about 8am to around 5pm. While I was there, I won a couple of door prizes! Then Steve and I went with a bunch of other VW enthusiasts to a local "Deutschfest". I enjoyed a plate of schnitzel with potatoe salad and sauerkraut.

I realized that I had gotten a bit too much sun on my face that evening. Ouch!!

Here's some pictures of the show.

This is the evening before the show...my car was almost all alone in the parking lot.



Here's some folks looking at the car...Steve is showing them some of the things we'd accomplished.




Now this was sometime during the judging of the show...I had to have both doors open, the hood open and the rear deck lid up. Well, mine doesn't go up...it comes off.



It was so hot that some kind folks next to me let me share the shade of their umbrella. While I was sitting there, Robert sat down with me and told me some pretty woeful stories about trying to get to the show last year! (He finally did make it.) Also, he told me he had a screw loose. Literally. He let me feel it. Sure enough, there it was...a loose screw in his forehead! It was from a prior surgery.



Steve judged some parts of the show (not the classification we were entered in, naturally...that wouldn't have been fair.) Anyway, here he is judging...



My friend Pete returned the car to our shop after church this afternoon. And so it sits, none the worse for it's adventure.

4 Comments:

  • Congratulations in getting to where you are now. You and Steve are doing a great job. I've followed your progress over the last 18 months and it's really sweet to see your "precious" coming back to life under your tender care. :)

    Hope the fun doesn't end here and best wishes for many more joyful memories and stories to come.

    CLD69_BUG

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:50 PM  

  • Looks like so much fun! You were in "bug heaven"!!

    You guys are doing a great job. Maybe next year you'll win, "Most Improved"!!

    Keep rollin' along!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:01 PM  

  • Have you stopped working on the car?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:49 PM  

  • No...we haven't...just haven't done anything too exciting. Mostly just cleaning parts. We've run out of extra cash to spend on it and had to deal with a couple of pretty major illnesses these past few months.

    But I'm looking forward to the weather warming up so I can start working on it again.

    Thanks for stopping by and checking on us!

    By Blogger Kim In Tulsa, at 2:16 PM  

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