the fugly 412 passed its MOT. third time lucky! now all i need is the road tax (a quick trip to the post office) and i can start blinging it up in a charity shop stylee! i’ve got the new front wings and the rather nice solid aluminium US spec bumpers (though i think i…

Tim and Neil from top gear magazine turned up this morning to do a photo shoot of the bus. tim got in contact recently and we had a chat about the bus and racing etc. sadly i couldn’t take him out and scare him witless but we had a chat and then neil took a…

so here it is, on the hard shoulder again, waiting for the AA….

ah well…. saturday was a great day at the ace cafe where rikki james from the split screen van club had organised a get together swap meet kinda thing. i met loads of people from the volkszone forum and chatted with all sorts about all sorts. i had a lot of interest in the bus…

well, there should be a nice image of the door bars and front kick bars on the roll cage here but there’s a problem with the automation on the server and the bath’s running so i don’t have time to fix it right now so just imagine a nice picture of the cage painted in…

after a manic week with paul and joss at Der Botcheinvolks workshops fitting a complete rollcage in the bus and rebuilding the rear end of the bus we ran a new personal best of 15.11 seconds at the weekends Flame and Thunder meet at santapod raceway in bedford. I even got to do my first…