need for speed

a great day at kiikala burn out party 2025, even the times were bad.

but its a good start...last time at the strip, around 20 years ago.

thanks for the guys for help, Nikke, Jimi, Kaide, Jyrki...etc...

 

little by little...

had to drive the buggy at the garage, it is nasty looking and 

sounds like a bee with rabies. :-) 

new brake caliper to the dodge, 

even the snow hit the ground, 

but have to make this work. looks like these are kelsey hayes brakes...

us-parts came to rescue. 

coming...soon... some update of the orange bug.

 

everything is broken, a bit...

 ok, my Audi broken, the axle... and it didn't move anymore...

so i thought i use the wbx bug, but after a while, there started to be some electric problems, like suddenly all the electrics were gone... ok, i started to search for a loose connection, and i think i found it, it stopped, but suddenly the starter stopped to operate. i got a bit frustrated with that...so i took the bug to somero, to rest in a barn. well i took the museum registered plymouth duster instead...

it works like a it should. BUT when i was trying to get to the inspection, something broke in the rear axle. 

similar like in the Quattro audi, this didn't move at all... my friends Musse towed us to the cottage.

i was so frustrated that i finished the AUDI axle replacement to the front axle. and boy i was exhausted.

now the audi works... that's good. some good of this ... and the buggy's starter has some issues... and the dodge pickup has a broken brake hose... and ... i don't know. im a bit tired

taking the ghia to helsinki...

the orange bug will stay at saukkola for a while...

got to try to fix it there...

the weather wasn't the best, but the rain 

took most of the dust away...

the race buggy was not easy to move as there is a spool...

got to go to the garage to clean up...

but now i can start to locate the problems in the ghia...

at least when I'm in a better shape...

 

the drag buggy

 ok, i couldn't resist this one. a street buggy from sweden, what a bad ass buggy. 10.7 in the quarter mile.

So i went with JIMI (my son) to Wasa with a trailer, stayed a night in a hotel, then in the morning after a good breakfast, went to the ship without a car or trailer, heading to UMEÅ.There was Mats and Palle, waiting with the buggy in the harbour already. oh boy, a drag buggy but street legal. a bottle of NOS and everything that one might need. we hadn't much time, but after cruising with the buggy at the harbour area...we drove the racer to the ship and then to the trailer and back to helsinki... 

a pretty long trip, but worth every penny. and the buggy.... its just awesome... and fast.

Krem-a-que 07-2014

Allways nice to see fellow vw-enthusiasts, in the sunny hietaniemi park area, thanks for the slugs as allways, what can i say, nice people, nice cars, nice feeling... Thats what krem-aque is.