Kai's Collection World Tour '09

Bug-In 34

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:18:08 +0000

Finally got my pics of the Bug-In online.. Thanks again Neil for the ride there in your awesome lowlight ghia, and thanks to everyone else for the good times! Here are a few pics, the rest you can find in the Gallery by clicking on one of the pics.
We had to get up EARLY:

This badass 356 preA was dragracing all day:

GFK line-up early in the morning:

Awesome ‘56 lowlight ghia in the parking lot:

My buddy Maurice on his way back to San Diego:

I bought a ‘71 Westy and drove it down Highway 1!

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:18:01 +0000

I figured it would be much cooler (and cheaper) to buy a baywindow bus to drive around, instead of getting a rental car for a few months. I found this ‘71 tintop Westy with rebuilt motor and brakes, nice original interior and lots of og paint in Santa Rosa (about an hour north of San Francisco), and went to check it out together with my buddy Greg from Vintage Warehouse. That same day I started my trip down to Oceanside, where I was gonna stay with my buddy Neil to visit the Bug-In that weekend. What an amazing trip it was. I took highway 1 all the way through Monterey to San Luis Obispo, one of the most beautiful scenic drives I’ve ever seen! And this bus turned out to be a great buy, in total I drove it about 2000 miles (3200km) with a lot of fun!

The rest of the pictures are in the ‘Cali misc’ folder in the Gallery..

Yosemite National Park.

admin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:05:11 +0000

It was quite a drive from San Francisco, but very much worth it! This park is a beautiful place nature created for us to enjoy! And I did! I hope you will enjoy these pictures just as much:

Click on one of the pictures to go to the Gallery for the rest!

Finally an update!

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:22:27 +0000

As most people know, I’ve been back in Europe for a few weeks now. With all the VW shows and other stuff of the past weeks I haven’t had time to update this blog. However, I still have a lot of cool pics of my travels, both in the US and Europe, so I’m gonna try to get these on here asap!
But first this: My friend Yoo from Thailand made this awesome painting of my ghia, wow!:

Thanks a lot, Yoo! You are very talented!!

San Francisco art

admin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:16:19 +0000

I love art, and San Francisco is full of it.. I went to the De Young museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and a lot of galleries.. The De Young had an awesome Warhol exhibit, but wasn’t allowed to take pictures inthere. At the other places I did take some pics, enjoy!
Persimmon by Robert Rauschenberg, 1964. I love his work!:

2 big pieces by the American Clyfford Still (1904-1980), a leading artist in Abstract Expressionism:

Not the best picture, but this is work by the famous Dutch artist Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944). The other work in my Gallery that looks like his is actually made by Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931):

More in the Gallery as usual, just click on the pics!

San Francisco part deux.

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:08:23 +0000

So much to see and do in this beautiful city. One of my favourites was/ is the Golden Gate bridge. I’ve looked at it, walked on it, driven on it, and offcourse took a lot of pictures:

Checked out the beautiful houses in the famous Haight-Ashbury area:

Saw this cool mural in Chinatown:

Union Square seen from the Cheesecake Factory deck:

I’ve filled up the San Francisco folder in the Gallery with some more pics, enjoy!

San Francisco!

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:38:27 +0000

What a cool city that is! And lucky me, the first couple of days I had beautiful weather there too, couldn’t be better! So I took this opportunity to chill and read my book on Union Square:

Offcourse I visited Alcatraz, very cool historical place:

And when I was too lazy to walk, I took the cable car:

Lot of pictures in the Gallery, just click on one of the pictures above!

Parts hunting day in Cali..

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:52:43 +0000

Me and my friend Thomas Anderson from Denmark went on a parts hunting day in Southern California. We stumbled on an amazing collection of old Porsches, and offcourse I couldn’t resist taking some pictures. Enjoy! (and Yes, they are all real!)

More pics in the ‘Cali misc’ folder in the Gallery. Click click click!!

Kelley Park

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:17:50 +0000

There’s nothing cooler than getting sunburnt at a VW show! Kelly Park had a lot of rain the last few years, but this year I specially ordered some nice weather, so everyone was happy. I got to drive Greg’s salesflap to the show, very cool! And me and Ryan even made some icecream money selling some parts we found in the back of Greg’s Binz, lots of fun!
r-l: Barndoor Kombi, Binz, Walkthrough Doubledoor Panel, Barndoor Panel, pressed bumper Panel:

Early bays are hot:

Best of Show, stunning zwitter ragtop:

Just missed out on this beautiful radio:

I added 53 more pictures to the Kelley Park Weekend folder, see them all in the Gallery!

BYOB - Red Barn swapmeet

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:10:10 +0000

The next day it was time to get up early for Bring Your Own Bus, the swapmeet at the Red Barn. It was my birthday that day, and I found myself some cool presents in the swap that day! And in the night, me, Greg and Ryan went out for some Jack & cokes, good times!!

Some cool old bikes:

Nice parts in the swap:

Lots more pictures in the Gallery, just click on one of the pics!